I really am getting rather tired of all this silliness where a thread gets going on the shortcomings of the current 'regular' Blu-Ray players, and yet the very people who complain about the players will say they won't buy the PS3 'because it is a game console' or similar....
Now, around here, people like things that work; we all love good Hi-Fi and video playback. So why is there this resistance?
Is it an age thing? People don't want something in their stately set-up that 'the young punks' use for silly games?
I am 48 years old. I never have and most likely never will touch a video game. When we got the Panny 700 58-inch, after reading about all the various standalone players out there, the only one that won and won again was the PS3. It has performed flawlessly, consistently, and I have yet to have it reject or refuse a properly mastered disc.
I am curious at the kind of 'open-ended' resistance to a unit that demonstrably is a solid performer where it counts (DVD/Blu-Ray playback) so at the risk of digging up dirt that's been dug many times before, what are the concrete reasons that you folks don't want the PS3, and if the reason is that 'it's a game console', why is that a deal-breaker?
Please take this in the spirit intended; I just think it might be a good idea for the answers to be lined up once and for all, since this subject goes around and around...
CC.
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Topic - Once and for All: Why Are People Objecting to Buying "A Game Console" for Blu-Ray? - Cosmic Closet 11:23:57 01/07/09 (32)
- RE: Once and for All: Why Are People Objecting to Buying "A Game Console" for Blu-Ray? - Cosmic Closet 09:01:52 01/10/09 (0)
- Simple- I don't play any video games... - Dman 07:13:09 01/09/09 (3)
- RE: Simple- I don't play any video games... - Robertc88 11:56:10 01/22/09 (0)
- Seriously? - Harmonia 19:46:00 01/09/09 (1)
- RE: Seriously? - Dman 06:03:11 01/10/09 (0)
- If there is a video game system in my home ... - Quadzilla 20:25:58 01/08/09 (0)
- I don't care whether it's a game console or a light box. - Harmonia 17:41:21 01/08/09 (0)
- Doesn't integrate very well - 4season 16:58:40 01/08/09 (0)
- RE: Once and for All: Why Are People Objecting to Buying "A Game Console" for Blu-Ray? - Cosmic Closet 12:03:32 01/07/09 (15)
- RE: Once and for All: Why Are People Objecting to Buying "A Game Console" for Blu-Ray? - David Aiken 21:21:39 01/07/09 (3)
- RE: Once and for All: Why Are People Objecting to Buying "A Game Console" for Blu-Ray? - cfraser 10:18:30 01/08/09 (0)
- Good comments - Jack G 05:07:50 01/08/09 (1)
- Well there's one exception - Gmood1 07:32:09 01/08/09 (0)
- RE: Once and for All: Why Are People Objecting to Buying "A Game Console" for Blu-Ray? - racerguy 12:32:11 01/07/09 (1)
- Understood...very good reasons IMO.(nt) - cfraser 13:04:02 01/07/09 (0)
- There are a few negatives as far as I can see. - grantv 12:19:31 01/07/09 (8)
- RE: There are a few negatives as far as I can see. - rap H8er 16:33:59 02/22/09 (0)
- silliness - Joe Murphy Jr 19:44:31 01/07/09 (6)
- No, not really from my perspective. - grantv 20:52:34 01/07/09 (5)
- it's not for everyone - Joe Murphy Jr 20:43:31 01/08/09 (4)
- Thanks for the notes on blue-ray and the link in the next post. - grantv 07:01:28 01/09/09 (2)
- not nececelery - Joe Murphy Jr 18:25:46 01/09/09 (0)
- On the price… - David Aiken 14:45:01 01/09/09 (0)
- 480p - Joe Murphy Jr 21:53:12 01/08/09 (0)
- RE: Once and for All: Why Are People Objecting to Buying "A Game Console" for Blu-Ray? - David Aiken 11:44:32 01/07/09 (0)
- 1. It's noisy; 2. Its connectivity options are extremely limited - racerguy 11:33:45 01/07/09 (6)
- RE: 1. It's noisy; 2. Its connectivity options are extremely limited - cfraser 12:16:27 01/07/09 (5)
- " you do need HDMI to get all the good stuff..." - oscar 16:28:52 01/07/09 (2)
- With the PS3 you need HDMI to get all the "good stuff". - cfraser 18:25:57 01/07/09 (1)
- Thus the biggest reason I don't have a PS3. nt - oscar 05:32:13 01/09/09 (0)
- It's noisier than any other device in my A/V room. That makes it noisy. Period. End of story (nt) - racerguy 12:33:03 01/07/09 (1)
- Same here...but I can't hear it when I'm using it, so it doesn't matter. (nt) - cfraser 12:40:50 01/07/09 (0)