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Originally Posted by jimmy242
will it follow the post october guildlines? will it have hdmi 1.3? will it be able to decode dts hd and dolby hd?
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The 80GB version won't have anything that current 60GB units cannot achieve with a firmware upgrade. Being a game console it has to provide a uniform interface to customers regardless of when it was manufactured, so Sony can only make improvements/upgrades "under the hood" that are also achievable with a fw upgrade on the "older" units. DTS HD decoding can be done by a fw upgrade. HDMI 1.3 already included (although according to reports that version of chip it has won't pass undecoded bitstream of DTS-HD,Dolby TrueHD to 1.3 receivers). 65nm is a possibility since reports came in March that IBM started manufacturing cell on 65nm, I guess the question is whether Sony ran out of its stockpile of 90nm cell chips before they started assembling the 80GB units. Hopefully someone with an 80GB unit will do some power consumption measurements since the 65nm chip should have measurably lower power draw.