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If you have PS3 - what is the install time for a movie?
My bro has a standalone player and it takes too long to play the movie. It took a long time for the machine to even turn on.



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sc94597 said:
Already posted, cheaper one for 140.

 No, that was for PC drives I believe.  Standalone players are totally different.



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It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson

Coca-Cola said:
If you have PS3 - what is the install time for a movie?
My bro has a standalone player and it takes too long to play the movie. It took a long time for the machine to even turn on.

 umm....0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 sec.

Seriously, there's no install time that I know of, you just turn the PS3 on, (takes about 5-8  sec) put the disc in and click on the icon that shows after about 1-2 sec under [Video]. (and if you turn autoplay on under [Settings] --> [Video Settings] you don't even have to click on it.) From turning on the PS3 to watching 1080p goodness takes max 20-25 sec.

Also, I can't remember which ones, but I saw 2 or 3 videophile website give the PS3 their "BD player of the year award" near the end of last year and I have to tell you that I have never been disappointed with my PS3's BD playback. (heck, it's even better than my standalone DVD player at playing DVDs because it upscales them to 1080p and doesn't take like 30 sec to recognize the disc; and yes, I do have an old DVD player but still....)



Not trying to be a fanboy. Of course, it's hard when you own the best console eve... dang it

leo-j said:

Everybody clamoring for a cheap Blu-ray player now that the format war is over might wanna bide their time with a sweet DVD upconverter—the $200-player Blu-ray cavalry is at least a year away, according to Sony Electronics CEO Stan Glasgow, who we talked to today in New York. "I don't think $200 is going to happen this year. Next year $200 could happen. We'll be at a $300 rate this year. $299 will happen this year."


So... $200 Blu-ray players not coming soon?  Unless "2009" is your definition of "soon".



Soon is a relative term. This is actually significantly faster than DVD player prices dropped, so it is soon. Don't even get me started on Laserdisc...

The longest I have ever had to wait for a movie on the PS3 was 10 seconds. That was only once. Every other time it has been 1-2 seconds (better than a regular DVD player).



We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson

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Coca-Cola said:
If you have PS3 - what is the install time for a movie?
My bro has a standalone player and it takes too long to play the movie. It took a long time for the machine to even turn on.

 

Yeah, the standalones are terrible. Some take up to 40 secs to just start (a boot up time longer than an average PC) and then another 20-30 secs until the movie starts when you put in a disc. Horrible.

Coca-Cola said:
I'll rather get PS3 if I was in the market for BR player.
BTW, how good is the BR player in PS3. Would this $200 standalone be equivalent or better than PS3?

 I'd say the ps3 would be better. The ps3 is the only player on the market right now that is compatible with BD-Live (after an upcoming firmware update)



At least up to this point in time, the PS3 is THE definitive Blu-Ray player for both the price and the quality. You can get a cheaper one off Amazon or something, but it won't be as reliable as the PS3.

Some of the new models that come out this year SHOULD solve some of these reliability problems, particularly those with enough onboard memory to handle some of the more advanced BD discs.



We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson

Nice to see lack of competition no longer driving fast price drops. [/sarcasm]



A flashy-first game is awesome when it comes out. A great-first game is awesome forever.

Plus, just for the hell of it: Kelly Brook at the 2008 BAFTAs

Tell me when PS3's are 300$ and I might get one.