Will a PS3 be sufficient to play Blu Rays at 1080p?

[Apocalypse23]

I finally made my mind up, I will be goin with Blu ray since it has better quality than HD . Hence I am planning on getting a PS3 from ebay. MY only concern is with all these new Blu ray players in the market costing over a grand, will my PS3 alone handle everything at max quality?

I figure it's just more bang for the buck to go for a gaming console that also plays blu rays.

PS - I am buying a Sharp Aquos 46" d62U set as well.

Thanks

 

[tuteja1986]

I have talked to alot of people and they say PS3 ecode Blu-ray better than almost every standalone Blu-ray player. But its an 1st since DVD decoding on console really sucks.

 

[dug777]

Yeah from the reviews i've read it stacked up pretty well against standalone players.

 

[JackBurton]

Originally posted by: Apocalypse23
I finally made my mind up, I will be goin with Blu ray since it has better quality than HD . Hence I am planning on getting a PS3 from ebay. MY only concern is with all these new Blu ray players in the market costing over a grand, will my PS3 alone handle everything at max quality?

I figure it's just more bang for the buck to go for a gaming console that also plays blu rays.

PS - I am buying a Sharp Aquos 46" d62U set as well.

Thanks

Higher quality than HD-DVD? How did you come to that conclusion?

 

[Arjunne]

Because HD-DVD, at least the players I have seen, are listed at 1080i (interlaced), vs. 1080p (progressive). I may have overlooked the recent ones, though.

 

[Kromis]

Originally posted by: JackBurton

Originally posted by: Apocalypse23
I finally made my mind up, I will be goin with Blu ray since it has better quality than HD . Hence I am planning on getting a PS3 from ebay. MY only concern is with all these new Blu ray players in the market costing over a grand, will my PS3 alone handle everything at max quality?

I figure it's just more bang for the buck to go for a gaming console that also plays blu rays.

PS - I am buying a Sharp Aquos 46" d62U set as well.

Thanks

Higher quality than HD-DVD? How did you come to that conclusion?

Lol, I can't even tell the difference in quality between HD-DVD or Blu-Ray...

Does anyone even *NEED* that much eye candy?

 

[enzoshadow]

Originally posted by: Kromis

Originally posted by: JackBurton

Originally posted by: Apocalypse23
I finally made my mind up, I will be goin with Blu ray since it has better quality than HD . Hence I am planning on getting a PS3 from ebay. MY only concern is with all these new Blu ray players in the market costing over a grand, will my PS3 alone handle everything at max quality?

I figure it's just more bang for the buck to go for a gaming console that also plays blu rays.

PS - I am buying a Sharp Aquos 46" d62U set as well.

Thanks

Higher quality than HD-DVD? How did you come to that conclusion?

Lol, I can't even tell the difference in quality between HD-DVD or Blu-Ray...

Does anyone even *NEED* that much eye candy?

You can never get enough eye candy lol

 

[Apocalypse23]

I'm an eye candy guy

But even capacity wise, Blu-ray is bigger, which probably means even that tiny bit of extra detail that you can't find on HD will be visible. All in all its a plus for me, I am a fighting games enthusiast and Id love to play Tekken 6 (when released) and Virtua Fighter 5 on the PS3 since I go way back with fighters and consoles. I'd rather play first person shooters like Crysis, etc on the PC.

 

[MrWizzard]

FYI both Blue-Ray and HD-DVD do 1080P.

There really is no quality difference, just 2 different standards. That being said I have used my PS3 to play 1080P blue ray movies at 1080P with no problems.

 

[KutterMax]

The confusion I think with 1080i vs 1080p for HD-DVD stems from the Xbox360. Over VGA cables it does 1080p, but with component cables it does 1080i. This is a licensing restriction. If and when a HDMI enabled 360 comes out, it should be able to do 1080p over HDMI.

However many will argue that for film based sources there is little to no benefit of going 1080p vs 1080i because films are captured at 24fps. There are entire websites dedicated to this discussion...

Ultimately the PS3 at the present time appears to be a very good Blu-ray player.

 

[Mackie2k]

Originally posted by: Apocalypse23
I finally made my mind up, I will be goin with Blu ray since it has better quality than HD . Hence I am planning on getting a PS3 from ebay. MY only concern is with all these new Blu ray players in the market costing over a grand, will my PS3 alone handle everything at max quality?

I figure it's just more bang for the buck to go for a gaming console that also plays blu rays.

PS - I am buying a Sharp Aquos 46" d62U set as well.

Thanks

LOL....

Noob.

HD-DVD does 1080p fine......and 360 will support HD-DVD on 1080p soon I'm sure.....it's just a matter of time.

Blu-Ray sucks, and if you read MOST reviews, people say HD-DVD looks better.

 

[destrekor]

Originally posted by: Mackie2k

Originally posted by: Apocalypse23
I finally made my mind up, I will be goin with Blu ray since it has better quality than HD . Hence I am planning on getting a PS3 from ebay. MY only concern is with all these new Blu ray players in the market costing over a grand, will my PS3 alone handle everything at max quality?

I figure it's just more bang for the buck to go for a gaming console that also plays blu rays.

PS - I am buying a Sharp Aquos 46" d62U set as well.

Thanks

LOL....

Noob.

HD-DVD does 1080p fine......and 360 will support HD-DVD on 1080p soon I'm sure.....it's just a matter of time.

Blu-Ray sucks, and if you read MOST reviews, people say HD-DVD looks better.

lol so behind the times
the reasons some Blu-Ray had been worse compared to HD-DVD, was because studios were releasing HD-DVD movies with AVC or VC-1 encoding, and leaving the BD version to be MPEG2. Obviously a bad decision and had a negative effect on overall IQ.
however, movies on both formats are now basically equal in IQ. studios who are releasing on both formats don't want to treat one better than the other anymore. but movies that are only on BD are excellent for the most part now.

here's to Pirates of the Caribbean on BD in 2-disc releases, with the movie being on a 50gb dual-layer BD, and the extras being on a second, 25gb disc. that'll be a BIG BD pusher.

 

[tuteja1986]

Lol 1st gen Blu-ray movie were a total joke. It was like some lame ass idiot did the encoding and he let dirt speckles , dull color , horrible mepg 2 encoding and also bad menu compared to HD-DVD. Quality control for them was shocking... then major supporter like samsung complained because when went to promote it in Expo. All PR people came back with report of general public asking question like "why is their dirt speckles here..." "It doesn't look much better than DVD". HD-DVD VLC was much more efficiently and didn't have a quality control problem but people went and bought Blu-ray player because people like number and 50GB is better than 30GB.

 

[Csst]

The only difference i think is the size of the disk i think its still up in the air what format is better. i know Blu- Ray can hold alot more data than HD

 

[Matt2]

I enjoy HD-DVD on my xbox360 at 1080p via vga cable.

Looks better than my friend's PS3 playing a Blu-Ray disc.

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: Matt2
I enjoy HD-DVD on my xbox360 at 1080p via vga cable.

Looks better than my friend's PS3 playing a Blu-Ray disc.

Read the earlier comments

Later BD is at least as good, if not better, and has the potential to only move further down this path, as i understand it.

 

[JRW]

I havent compared my ps3 to other bluray players but all the bluray movies I have look fantastic ,a big step up in quality over standard DVDs and im only using a 34" CRT HDTV @ 1080i (Sony XBR960). The only thing I notice is the access speed when bringing up menus / scene select etc. is *slightly* on the slower side, but no big deal.

Of all the movies I have "Crank" has the best picture quality , amazingly sharp & detailed. I recently read a review and they mention it was shot entirely with 1080p cameras. You can tell.

 

[Matt2]

The only thing I hate about HD-DVD is a lot of the movies I want in HD-DVD are on Blu-Ray only. Black Hawk Down for example.

I did however get The Departed on HD-DVD and that movie looks the overall best out of any HD-DVD or Blu-Ray movie I've seen.

 

[cleeve]

Originally posted by: Matt2
The only thing I hate about HD-DVD is a lot of the movies I want in HD-DVD are on Blu-Ray only. Black Hawk Down for example.

I did however get The Departed on HD-DVD and that movie looks the overall best out of any HD-DVD or Blu-Ray movie I've seen.

That's because literally EVERY major studio except for Universal supports Blu-Ray or is neutral.

Sony, columbia, and MGM support blu-ray, disney supports blu-ray, buena vista supports blu-ray, 20th century fox supports blu-ray

warner is neutral, paramount is neutral, newline is neutral, and dreamworks is neutral.

universal and weinstein(who?) supports hd-dvd.