| ameratsu said: careful now. hdtv's are coming down in price a very big way. while some people are perfectly content paying over $1000 for a flat panel, as they get closer and closer to the $400-$500 mark for a quality model, expect technology/services taking advantage of HD displays (HD movie playback, HD tv channels/on demand content, HD video games) to become ever more relevant. As it stands a quality 32inch 1080i tv (Sharp Aquos) can be had for about ~$800. I'm not going to lie though squrriel. after that "sony should remove blu ray movie playback from the $400 ps3" comment you made, i have a hard time taking you seriously. mabye you were joking though, i'm not sure. |
I wasn't joking ...
Sony could easily remove the dedicated hardware for video-encoding, remove the licencing fee from the hardware, and thus save (over) $50 on every console and still offer a Blu-Ray movie player for download from the Playstation store for a nominal fee for the people who want Blu-Ray movies.
In my opinion removing backwards compatibility should have occured after they removed Blu-Ray movie playback and Wifi because it can not be easily returned through a download or through and optional accessory ...
