Screen tearing is usually caused by developers turning off vsync in order to remove overhead that would cause slowdown. It is more and more common in games these days, which is pretty sad.
It won't be necessary to line up for this game. There are going to be so many copies of this on the street that people will have no trouble finding one.
Even though HD-DVD appears to be on its way out it doesn't mean that Blu-ray is the guaranteed successor to DVD. The technology is still expensive and the newest upscaling DVD players do a great job of upconverting DVD for use on HDTV's. HD movies still cost 50% more than DVD's. So, really, DVD doesn't need a successor right now. There are hundreds of millions of DVD players out there doing a great job for people.
There really isn't high demand for either HD-DVD or Blu-ray righ...
There's really no resale value for disc-based media, either. When's the last time you got more than a dollar or two for a used DVD?
My guess is that certain Blu-ray discs will have movies in PSP format on them already. There's no way a Blu-ray movie is going to be compressed for transfer to PSP in seconds.
Besides, the article doesn't say anything about conversion. It just says that a copy will be ready.
I just want the format war to be over.
So the recent announcement of 17.7 million sold worldwide is just shipped numbers?
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-...
Please point everyone to something that contradicts that announcement.
If it makes the game more balanced then why not?
It's a good feature, but something I would never use.
There's probably only so much that smoothing is going to be able to do for PS1 titles, particularly on HDTV's. Even those running at 640X480. You can't smooth what isn't there.
I like the sound of that. Man I love my PS3.
People are crazy if they're making an investment in a console based on the promise of games to come. I think it is more accurate to say that those people don't buy consoles until the games they want are available. Any game can be cancelled at any time. It happens quite often.
I don't believe that Microsoft ever entertained the idea of building such a device. It was just an internet rumor and nothing else. Even if they had released a machine with an HD-DVD drive, they wouldn't have been able to use it for games without ticking off 17 million customers, and nobody in their right mind buys a game console just to watch movies.
I don't see how the rumor ever got legs to begin with.
You mean like how PS3 is backward compatible with PS2 media?
How would digitally distributed movies be based on optical media technology?
Even at it's loudest the PS3 isn't that bad. Not as loud as my first 360 was, but that was more drive noise than anything. The only time I've ever heard drive noise from my PS3 was last night right after I updated Heavenly Sword. It took a bit longer to load the first time after the update and it was spinning loudly. But once it loaded it didn't make any more noise.
As far as fan noise, I never notice fan noise while watching DVD's or Blu Ray movies on my PS3. Maybe this guy ha...
Just because HD-DVD might lose the video format war doesn't mean that it won't still be viable for data storage, so it is possible that a future Xbox could use it for games. Who knows?
How about a list of good PSP games? I'd really like to see some of those.
Give it a rest. How many HD-DVD movies have sold a million? Aren't there more standalone HD-DVD players than standalone Blu-ray players?
Never backed it fully? They wrote the HDi software used in HD-DVD players.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
It doesn't get much more full than that.