CHV Lives On

Wow, SLAM DUNK there Kennie! You certainly gave the pep rally to end all pep rallies...

Sony TGS 2006 Keynote! Prepare to be blown away at this, the last great chance for Sony to put on a strong showing and swing months of festering ill will to their favor like a stretched rubberband! A good show is not a Herculean task after the laughable MS keynote. Allow me to summarize:
Ken Kutaragi opens with a trailer of three games that have all been seen before.
Kutaragi then proceeds to ramble insanely for nearly an hour on incoherent bullshit about network computing and vague mumblings about maps that may or may not have a basis in our reality.
This somehow leads up to a snippet of Afrika, which may or may not actually be a game and nobody knows anything about. Still.
The end.
Edit: Ooh, I forgot in all the excitement. If all goes well, you'll be able to pay per play (as in, each time you play the game) for old downloadable, emulated PC Engine games in a twisted reflection of Nintendo's virtual console. Rock on, Sony!

Not quite the megaton we were expecting.

And in the Q'n'A session after the keynote, where such an announcement might actually have made @#%$ sense, Kutaragi says that the 20GB version has added HDMI and dropped some unspecified amount in price. As nothing he says ever answers more questions than it spawns, whether this is valid outside of Japan is unknown.

$100 off the price of the system? I await word on if this only applies to the cheaper model, and only for Japan...

Afiak.
Retarded model will not have HDMI making it semi-retarded for Japan and US.
Semi-retarded model is now $420USD in Japan only because appearently Japanese know how to complain more than Americans.
The real model has no price drop.

The PS3 will not only be 4D, but also 480p for a decent number of HDTV owners...
au.ps3.ign.com/articles/7...282p1.html
I still pray this is nothing more than pre-release FUD, but I don't think so...

Hopefully is can be fixed with firmware update or something.
Although I am sure 99% of people do not know the difference, I blame them for buying 1080i TVs and not 1080p. I mean, it is HD. Get a real progressive TV.
www.dailytech.com/article...ewsid=4984

Why not blame people for "only" buying 1080p TVs if 1440p TVs come to the market in five years? DOH...U SUKRZ SHOODVE WATED 4 REELITY HD!! Such is the cost of being an early adopter of sorts, I guess. *shrug*
And while I don't doubt some people can't tell the difference between EDTV and HDTV (as I know people who claim to see no difference between VHS and DVD), I would assume a large number of gamers, especially those who are willing to shell out $600 and/or wait in line for a couple days, know QUITE easily if they're looking at a 480p or a 1080i picture.
I, am one of those people. Resistance is having a less of a "wow" effect on me, graphically speaking, than CoD2 did last year on the 360 (and that was a year-old PC port too). I chalk at least part of that up to the fact that the system is, once again, running at the same bloody resolution that my Wii, PS2, and GCN are!

EDIT: biz.gamedaily.com/industr.../?id=14518

Quote:

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A small number of older High Definition television sets found in the United States only have 1080i inputs for HD signals. Those televisions will currently only play some PS3 titles at 480p resolution. PS3 games render images at either 720p or 1080p for High Definition, and you need 720p input on the TV to play select games that do not support 1080p. This is an issue on the side of the individual television sets, which do not accept 720p input, so when a game outputs an HD signal only at 720p, these select TVs have to display the game at 480p instead.

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Yes, the issue is on the side of the TV set...however, if you are building a device that is going to be used on said sets, having it equipped with a proper scaler from the start would've been a good idea. Even Microsoft, often hailed as the king of buggy software, got that right on day one.

Sony said they are working on a fix for this issue now.
I wasn't referring to a difference in resolution. I was referring to progressive and interlace.