I can tell you that my Panasonic BD 85 Blu-Ray player has the worst Netflix interface and can't be easily updated because there is no HDD. No subtitles for example because that was added to Netflix after this player was made.Zachary Amaranth said:
GameStop Chops PlayStation 3's Price
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While the $200 price point is attractive, I'm sticking with the one I have.
Because MINE'S SO OLD, IT PLAYS MY PS2 GAMES.
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I mean, that's not something you hear someone brag about every day XD
Because MINE'S SO OLD, IT PLAYS MY PS2 GAMES.
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I mean, that's not something you hear someone brag about every day XD
What kind of games are you playing? Just off the top of my head Witcher 2 or BF 3 would require a $450 or so card to run on their high settings.Lonny said:
That said, the current PC $400+ cards are almost exactly what consoles will get two years from now, in their next gen. And the good old Radeon HD 6950 for $240 bucks will bring you eyecandy miles ahead from current consoles.
What? No you crazy. No PC games need more than a ~$150 video card unless you are running 16x AA 16x AF, which is just making your PC into a space heater rather than actually improving the image.Tanakh said:
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html
Radeon 6790 is smoking Skyrim at the moment with added super-high res modder texture packs and shaders. The GeForce GTX 480 is nearly the fastest GPU available and only costs $229.
Excellent just what ive been waiting for!
Im going to get as many of these as I can and network them into a super computer.
It will be no ordinary super computer NO he will be my son!
I will bring him to life give him intelligence a life and a name raise him as my own and send him out to face the world.
It will be tough but you have to let go sooner or later;(
Im going to get as many of these as I can and network them into a super computer.
It will be no ordinary super computer NO he will be my son!
I will bring him to life give him intelligence a life and a name raise him as my own and send him out to face the world.
It will be tough but you have to let go sooner or later;(
It seems Amazon has priced matched GameStops price on the PS3.My brothers birthday is coming up soon and this will be a excellent surprise.
Suit yourself, but a Radeon 6790 won't even get 10 FPS on BF 3 on their ultra settings, it will probably get a sub 50 FPS framerate even on medium-high ones, you also won't be able to play SC II on ultra witout lag (not that any sane person runs on ultra nway) or witcher 2 with Ubersampling.Lonny said:
And of course you can run skyrim with high res textures, it is a videogame designed to run in 8 years old hardware like the Xbox 360, adding higher res textures is only demanding some more vram.
Lastly, I think you are very missguided on your sources, a GTX 480 should score on a synthetic benchmark like 3DMark11 around 4k, current top of the line GPUs score 9k-10k. G3D Mark? I don't think have ever heard about that synthetic, and after seeing their charts it's no wonder, they don't seem to predict the cards performance under real games at all; and their card selection seems kinda random, Quadro? Lolz, why the heck are they even including Workstation GPUs there?
That certainly bites. I'm impressed with the XBox 360 one managing to be even worse than the one before. This is one of the reasons I do love my PS3, so your point is not completely lost on me.Crono1973 said:
No not even flash media internally? The one I got my mom can update, but it doesn't have a disk drive, just flash memory. I figured that would be standard. She doesn't have Netflix, so I don't know if hers can be updated.
It can be updated and has been but there are limits because there is so little internal memory. You even have to use an SD card if you want to use BD Live (why would you though, it's just ads). I doubt Panasonic will use the SD card to store Netflix software though.Zachary Amaranth said:
On the other hand, there really is no limit on the PS3 since it has a HDD and a pretty large one at that. Also, on the Panasonic, it has problems with it's wireless adapter and even plugged in via ethernet, it is slow and due to low memory can only store 100 titles. That means if you have Star Trek TNG on your queue, which has almost 200 episodes, only 100 of them will load in at a time. If you want to watch an episode not loaded in, you have to start the episode you want to watch on the PC (so it marks that episode as the last one watched), then reload the Netflix software on the Panasonic. You don't have those problems with the PS3, 360 or PC.
Now granted, some blu-ray players will have more internal memory but none will have as much as a PS3 with 160, 250 or 320 GB.
Holy hell! That's ridiculously cheap (for a console)!
If I didn't already have a PS3, I would actually go out to buy one. It might be good for another 2 years.
If I didn't already have a PS3, I would actually go out to buy one. It might be good for another 2 years.
Try here. 110NZD or 90usd for any new console title. Probably around 80usd for an old game. Oh..and PC games? Only 10 bucks cheaper.Jesse Billingsley said:
And people wonder why Steam is so popular all over the world.
YaaaaarpJesse Billingsley said:
Just checking now, a 160gb Ps3 is 400usd here(480nzd) and Id consider that normal. They used to be 600+ nzds when they came out. I just find it amusing when people mention the $60usd price limit, since the only time I see that is on 3 year old games on special.