While probably true, you do have to remember that some people have modded their PS2 (there is a softmod out there, and combined with a hard drive, you can store all your games and no longer need to use the game disks). I don't think that works with the PS3.
You can do it with a 60GB/20GB model PS3. Not sure if it requires the official PS2 Memory Card adapter, but I know people have done it.
PS3 outputs 480i doesn't it? Isn't it PS1 that renders 240p?
720p on component cables.
Huh?
PS3 outputs 240p, 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, and 1080p all over the same component cables as a PS2. It may upscale/line-double original PlayStation games but I know I’ve seen my Sony TV say “240p” while playing Ico with official Sony PS2/3 component cables on a launch unit 60GB PS3. Yes, it also supports 1080p over component, though FUD about Blu-Ray’s Image Constraint Token convinced most people that it didn’t even support HD over component.
Crap I meant to write PS2 outputs at 480i.
The PS2 outputs at 240p, 480i, 480p, and 1080i. Heck, there might even be a 720p game or two. Of course, it can’t do that with the included composite cable or even with S-Video cables but the component cables were in stores everywhere from early in the PS2’s life straight through the end of the PS3’s life. The component cables double as RGsB (RGB, sync on green) cables for Japan but the RGB format duplicates the luminance across all three channels and doesn’t have the bandwidth to spare for proper HD. Component dedicates one channel for luminance, derives two color channels from that by only transmitting offset values, and then mathematically infers the third channel freeing even more bandwidth for HD.
Anyone who says RGB is superior to component is kidding themselves. Even for sub-HD RGB-sourced signals, RGB can be passively converted to component which makes the image less susceptible to interference and noise with no more quality loss than if the conversion were a pass-through device (if it’s properly made, of course). You’ll hear a lot of people telling you to stick with RGB if you get a scaler or scan converter but do not listen to them unless you live in a region where RGB might be useful without the scaled (it isn’t in North America except for a select few with specialty RGB PVM monitors and the like).
With HD Retrovision your cables will potentially be useful even without the scan converter/scaler. Though TV compatibility for some old consoles isn’t great for 240p over component, you can actually go get a component TV from the store or thrift store today if you needed it. For RGB SCART or JP21 there is near ZERO chance of that.
I dunno, but the point I meant to convey is that PS2 and PS3 both wire the component multi-out the same way; so a PS3 component cable should work fine with a PS2 system.
Initially Sony told users to use PS2 component cables if their HDTV did not have HDMI but they soon rebranded the exact same cables as PS3 component cables. A year or so later they changed the design of the cables. They eventually changed them again (fancy metallic RCA jacks and such). That was around when I noticed one of the officially licensed 3rd party component cable makers dropped their own branding so they appeared to be 1st party with official Sony holograms (they still weren’t technically 1st party).
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