Time To Put The PS2 DVD Myth To Rest

[SvennoJ]

d21lewis said:

SvennoJ said:
PS2 was crap as a DVD player, while PS3 is a very good blu-ray player. I bought a second ps3 to use as a blu-ray player, while I always used a dedicated dvd player instead of the ps2. Early ps2 models did not support progressive scan output for DVD while ps3 had full 1080p hdmi output from launch.

This is also true. Lots of times I rented DVDs that wouldn't work. I'd take them back to the video store and sadly get the vhs version. Dark times.

Ha, early dark times indeed. Many of the DVDs I rented in The Netherlands were direct recordings from the VHS version, Dutch subtitles burned onto the picture and occasional VHS noise included... Hence I rather imported movies from the US.

I've used the ps2 a few times to watch dvds and it always disappoints me with the picture quality. Perhaps I've set it up wrong, or just too spoiled now with blu-ray and the occasional upscaled dvd.