My PS3 Review
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Watching Casino Royale I find something very interesting in the bitrate display. During the fight scene around the 1:21:00 mark the bitrate does not go up. Its anywhere from 18-25 Mbps. Heck it gets up above 30+ when Bond is in the bathroom cleaning up. What this tells me is that the bitrates are way beyond where they need to be. The high bitrate superiority that BD claims is just for show IMO and not really necessary. Heck during the next poker scene around 1:26 its anywhere from 17-40 Mbps with no real reason.
Amir explained a few times on AVS that the bitrate meter on any hidef player (if present) can be off by enough to make it almost useless to discuss bitrate-scene correlations...
But Casino Royale must have had a very high quality master (even the hidef ~14Mbps ABR satellite version was very good) and Sony did a good job encoding it.
Diogen.
But Casino Royale must have had a very high quality master (even the hidef ~14Mbps ABR satellite version was very good) and Sony did a good job encoding it.
Diogen.
Vurbano, I have read that Spiderman3 PQ and audio is on an equal footing with Casino Royal. A few reviewers even thought that it might be better on audio.
I would also recomend you pick up Rachet and Clank to play with. This game looks like a Pixar movie and the animation is the smoothest I have ever seen in a game. This is a platformer and you can pick the dificulty level and if you have kids they will like it.
I would also recomend you pick up Rachet and Clank to play with. This game looks like a Pixar movie and the animation is the smoothest I have ever seen in a game. This is a platformer and you can pick the dificulty level and if you have kids they will like it.
Ok, where is Vurbano, and what did you do with his body!
Ya no kidding, i feel betrayed.
I feel like I can watch a lot more movies now. I just think importing HD DVD while feasible is too expensive and inconvenient. Its a shame because I do think that HD DVD is the most efficient format and BD has a hell of a lot of waste..
Ok, where is Vurbano, and what did you do with his body!
That's what I was just thinking, someone has obviously hacked his account!!!
Online gaming seems to work fine now. My only complaint seems to be the HD mpeg2 video streaming. Just do not understand how the LP2 can outperform this thing with all of its horsepower. There are also long pauses during different parts of games while it loads. A draw back of slow BD speed I think.
I have to give it to you, Vurbano. As much as I have sometimes disagreed with you, at least you give things a shot and then give a fair readout on what you've found, which is more than I can say for a lot of people around here (myself included, sometimes).
Personally, I just don't have the money (or, more accurately, my wife won't let me spend the money) for HD-DVD and Blu-Ray or 360/Wii and a PS3, so I'm just hoping I made the right choices...
Personally, I just don't have the money (or, more accurately, my wife won't let me spend the money) for HD-DVD and Blu-Ray or 360/Wii and a PS3, so I'm just hoping I made the right choices...
Well no matter if you own HD DVD or BD if you only own one there are a bunch of movies you cannot watch. I bought the HD-A1 as soon as it came out and this war is going to go on for years IMO. I am not going to be a victim of all of this studio stupidity. All of it and I mean ALL of it is an anti consumer money grab.
Studios lost me as a customer as far as I'm concerned, I really don't want to buy a bunch of SD DVDs if I am planning to ramp up a HD disc collection in the not so distant future... so not only have I lost the urge to buy SD DVDs the cost of HD discs has disuadded me from jumping headfirst into that war.
It sucks, money and time was at a premium over the summer, so we didn't see many flicks in the theaters, and now we have no real desire to get them on DVD and catch up. As a former comic book guy this was a big summer too.
I just hate FUD, and for a while BD was cranking it out, so that somewhat helped me make my choice. I own a 360, will one day own a PS3 when the gaming side of it offers enough to make a purchase worthwhile. The price of the unit will help/hurt that cause, and currently entrenched in the hurt column.
Props to Vurbano for being far more objective in this thread than many of your posts would suggest you are capable of doing at times
It sucks, money and time was at a premium over the summer, so we didn't see many flicks in the theaters, and now we have no real desire to get them on DVD and catch up. As a former comic book guy this was a big summer too.
I just hate FUD, and for a while BD was cranking it out, so that somewhat helped me make my choice. I own a 360, will one day own a PS3 when the gaming side of it offers enough to make a purchase worthwhile. The price of the unit will help/hurt that cause, and currently entrenched in the hurt column.
Props to Vurbano for being far more objective in this thread than many of your posts would suggest you are capable of doing at times
Sorry Diogen I just saw this. Here is a JPEG of my TVersity settings. And most of my videos are TV shows in XVID or other WMV's.
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If you are smart, you won't consider WEP to be capable of securing your wireless network.
Just to keep the neighbour from stealing your internet access... may be.
WEP is breakable in 3 minutes as was demonstrated 2 years ago by the FBI
Diogen.
Some of us have to run WEP for our online gaming. Nintendo, in one of their genius decisions, only has WEP available for the DS.
This actually looks to be a bit different from what I expected (I never used TVersity).
From the screencap, it looks like it does reencoding (to WMV8) and compression on the fly (akin DVDShrink compresses regular DVDs).
Diogen.
If you still want to protect the rest of your network, use two routers (they are cheap nowadays).
One of them WEP for gaming, assign a static IP and put it in DMZ of the main router. Deny access from that IP to your main network.
Diogen.
Question for you.... I just switched everything over to WPA2-PSK (had to upgrade the firmware on my router to do it and forgot the cardinal rule - don't upgrade the firmware over the wireless connection - but I'm all set now), and it seems like everything is slower. Tried to download something from PSN and it seemed painfully slow.... is this normal with WPA? I don't really do much, if any, sensitive stuff over my WLAN and I'm really thinking about switching back to WEP...
