The nextbox and bluray. Do you want it???

[SvennoJ]

selnor said:

SvennoJ said:
I prefer my ps3 for multimedia since 360 is lacking in a few key areas.

- No uncompressed surround sound output, limited to 640 kbps 5.1 DD or lpcm 2 channel.
- It can't play my 24mbps m2ts (h.264) videos, I have to down convert them to a max 10mbps format compatible with 360 first which takes forever.
- It won't display gif, not even bmp files, again I don't want to convert all my pictures to lossy jpg.
- It doesn't display 1920x1080 pictures correctly, there is some down sampling going on before it comes back out as 1080p. Fine detail is lost (Maybe that's only on the old fat model I don't know)
- The video player is not as responsive and has way less options for slow/fast motion back and forwards and no 1.5 speed with sound.
- The cd player has a slight pause between tracks, pretty annoying for trance mixes.

Both don't support uncompressed digital audio file formats, so I'm still stuck with CD's for now.
Both don't support the lossless jpg format.

The nextbox has some catching up to do if it wants to become my preferred multimedia machine.

Where do you live that you get unlimited fast internet but crappy blu-ray selection in stores? Although I used to have that until internet became widely used here, then it got slower, capped and more expensive sigh.
Blu-ray is thriving here at the cost of dvd shelf space. Plenty older blu-rays are priced 10 dollars and lower nowadays in stores.

Plymouth UK. Bout 300,000 people.

I'll put it this way. If you were to buy a bluray film and have a good selection of choice you would go to one shop. Hmv. Even blockbuster which have 2 store in town centre, have 2 bays. The rest of the store is DVD ( guessing 20 bays ). And games.

I've only ever seen 1 bluray film up close in its box in 5 years. Avatar. You never here anyone talk about bluray or suggest bluray. But many are downloading films. It did buzz when it released. But it just turned into nothing. I've never seen a bluray player in someones house other than a ps3. Obviously they do sell. But it is very poor. However, 50 Mb broadband is readily available here. K currently have 30 Mb. It isn't expensive either. All the companies are trying to get your custom with best price and highest speed. There's like  8 different high speed providers in the UK.

Its great for internet. No capping either.

I wish we had more choices for internet here. I live near Brantford in Canada. I can either get Bell (phone company) or Rogers (cable). 47 bucks a month for 10mbps download (hardly ever reach that in reality) and a 60gb monthly cap. I could pay 99 a month and get upto 50mbps and 175gb a month. However since I almost never get near 10mbps I doubt there's any use going with a higher limit. 500 kb/sec is the fastest I see it go here, ms live video streaming can't maintain 5mbps either, drops down to 4 and 3mbps on testing.

Blu-ray is heavily promoted here. Lot of shelf space now in Future shop (50/50 already), Wal mart, Blockbuster (not sure how much longer they will survive, seems rental store days are numbered) Plenty of smaller stores have lots to offer too.

But I have no doubt it's not as good in Europe. I used to live in The Netherlands before '02 and I got pretty much all my movies from amazon.com after I got a region 1 ntsc player. It took forever for dvd to gain traction as well, the selection of region 2 dvds in shops was piss poor.

Thanks for the thread btw, it made me check my amazon cart. A lot of stuff I had saved for later was discounted and I pre ordered the extended edition of the lotr trilogy, finally out on the 28th.