The PS3 just keeps impressing me - Blu-ray Forum

Warjack Prime · 01-03-2009, 11:11 PM

I realize more and more every day how great a machine the PS3 is. The latest discovery is as follows. My home theater is downstairs but we have a 32" set upstairs we just use to watch television. Lately we've been wanting to watch DVD's upstairs on the couch for convenience's sake rather than using the larger TV and surround sound which is downstairs.

We decided to hook up our Wii upstairs since we never play it because if I'm going to go downstairs and play games I end up playing the PS3. Anyway, we just discovered the Wii doesn't play DVD's. How cheap is that? Nintendo didn't bother to include the ability to play DVD's on their oh-so-popular machine. WTF?!

Anyway, we ended up picking up a cheap Bluray player at Best Buy tonight (might as well get Bluray over DVD) but I thought it was really interesting that the highly praised Wii doesn't even play DVD's. That's just one more thing the PS3 does well.

Blu Titan · 01-03-2009, 11:16 PM

The PS3 does everything GREAT. Not nonly does it play DVDS, but it upconverts them as well.

bilbravo · 01-04-2009, 02:04 AM

While it is a bummer that the Wii does not play DVDs I've never really heard Nintendo promote it as anything other than a gaming machine. There focus is games, which is fine. I never understand why people get so up in arms over it not playing DVDs out of the box.

brett_day · 01-04-2009, 02:07 AM

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Originally Posted by bilbravo

While it is a bummer that the Wii does not play DVDs I've never really heard Nintendo promote it as anything other than a gaming machine. There focus is games, which is fine. I never understand why people get so up in arms over it not playing DVDs out of the box.

mainly because dvd has been the defacto standard for so many years and also that the wii games come on dvd's....but yes you are right when you say nintendo has never promoted the wii as a multimedia machine

the ps3 is awesome! great games, great blu player, it does it all!

Xerios · 01-04-2009, 02:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Blu Titan

The PS3 does everything GREAT. Not nonly does it play DVDS, but it upconverts them as well.

was gonna be my exact post lol

+1

toef · 01-04-2009, 03:43 AM

I can see being surprised that the Wii doesn't play DVDs, but I don't know how you can be "impressed" that the PS3 does.

TomHoang · 01-04-2009, 03:46 AM

Ps3 Ftw!!!
:d

xtop · 01-04-2009, 03:50 AM

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Originally Posted by brett_day

mainly because dvd has been the defacto standard for so many years and also that the wii games come on dvd's....but yes you are right when you say nintendo has never promoted the wii as a multimedia machine

the ps3 is awesome! great games, great blu player, it does it all!

they know it can't upconvert. and believe it or not, thats that much more money they can save by not including dvd playback

rick3000gto · 01-04-2009, 04:33 AM

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Originally Posted by TomHoang

Ps3 Ftw!!!

+1

Warjack Prime · 01-04-2009, 02:25 PM

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Originally Posted by toefer

I can see being surprised that the Wii doesn't play DVDs, but I don't know how you can be "impressed" that the PS3 does.

I'm not necessarily "impressed" that the PS3 plays DVD's. What impresses me is that my PS3 does so much more than games whereas other systems don't. And Nintendo may not have promoted their machine to be a DVD player but it just seemed crappy to me that it didn't. The PS3 just does it all.

CMM · 01-04-2009, 02:46 PM

Wow, you are easily pleased.

ascotinmpls · 01-04-2009, 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by brett_day

mainly because dvd has been the defacto standard for so many years and also that the wii games come on dvd's....

Wii games come on Wii Optical Discs, not DVD's.

xtop · 01-04-2009, 03:01 PM

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Originally Posted by ascotinmpls

Wii games come on Wii Optical Discs, not DVD's.

its more of a hybrid dvd if anything

reiella · 01-04-2009, 03:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Warjack Prime

I realize more and more every day how great a machine the PS3 is. The latest discovery is as follows. My home theater is downstairs but we have a 32" set upstairs we just use to watch television. Lately we've been wanting to watch DVD's upstairs on the couch for convenience's sake rather than using the larger TV and surround sound which is downstairs.

We decided to hook up our Wii upstairs since we never play it because if I'm going to go downstairs and play games I end up playing the PS3. Anyway, we just discovered the Wii doesn't play DVD's. How cheap is that? Nintendo didn't bother to include the ability to play DVD's on their oh-so-popular machine. WTF?!

Anyway, we ended up picking up a cheap Bluray player at Best Buy tonight (might as well get Bluray over DVD) but I thought it was really interesting that the highly praised Wii doesn't even play DVD's. That's just one more thing the PS3 does well.

Well, the logic nintendo had with that is fairly sound.

Why pay the license fee to do something for the user, that they already have another device to do. Would you pay 20$ [arbitrary number] for a Wii that played back DVDs?

Variable · 01-04-2009, 07:19 PM

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Originally Posted by xtop

its more of a hybrid dvd if anything

like the dreamcast. I think. something like gd-rom they called it.

Sloan78 · 01-04-2009, 07:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Variable

like the dreamcast. I think. something like gd-rom they called it.

+1 Indeed....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GD-ROM

STARSCREAM · 01-04-2009, 07:30 PM

PS3 is one of best pieces of equipment period.

saprano · 01-04-2009, 10:29 PM

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Originally Posted by CMM

Wow, you are easily pleased.

Wow you are easily a dumb @$$

Blu350z · 01-04-2009, 10:35 PM

Ummm... Not sure if anyone remembers but I remember that Nintendo said it would play DVDs back when it was first shown, same time PS3 had 2 hdmi ports, a way to fight world hunger, and 3 Ethernet ports.

Kidding aside, I heard that the Wii was supposed to play DVDs but psssff...DVDs.

jamclaur · 01-04-2009, 11:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Warjack Prime

I realize more and more every day how great a machine the PS3 is. The latest discovery is as follows. My home theater is downstairs but we have a 32" set upstairs we just use to watch television. Lately we've been wanting to watch DVD's upstairs on the couch for convenience's sake rather than using the larger TV and surround sound which is downstairs.

We decided to hook up our Wii upstairs since we never play it because if I'm going to go downstairs and play games I end up playing the PS3. Anyway, we just discovered the Wii doesn't play DVD's. How cheap is that? Nintendo didn't bother to include the ability to play DVD's on their oh-so-popular machine. WTF?!

Anyway, we ended up picking up a cheap Bluray player at Best Buy tonight (might as well get Bluray over DVD) but I thought it was really interesting that the highly praised Wii doesn't even play DVD's. That's just one more thing the PS3 does well.

It wasn't cost effective. They didn't think people needed ANOTHER dvd player.

01-03-2009, 11:11 PM	#1
Warjack Prime Senior Member Member since:Jan 2008 Location:*Omaha, NE USA PSN Network: WarjackPrime Blu-ray collection:172 Trading Score:2	The PS3 just keeps impressing me I realize more and more every day how great a machine the PS3 is. The latest discovery is as follows. My home theater is downstairs but we have a 32" set upstairs we just use to watch television. Lately we've been wanting to watch DVD's upstairs on the couch for convenience's sake rather than using the larger TV and surround sound which is downstairs. We decided to hook up our Wii upstairs since we never play it because if I'm going to go downstairs and play games I end up playing the PS3. Anyway, we just discovered the Wii doesn't play DVD's. How cheap is that? Nintendo didn't bother to include the ability to play DVD's on their oh-so-popular machine. WTF?! Anyway, we ended up picking up a cheap Bluray player at Best Buy tonight (might as well get Bluray over DVD) but I thought it was really interesting that the highly praised Wii doesn't even play DVD's. That's just one more thing the PS3 does well.

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Blu Titan Super Moderator Top ranked HT gallery Top contributor Member since:Jul 2007 Location:Edo, Land of the Samurai Home Theater Gallery:42 4K collection:41 Blu-ray collection:2864 Blu-ray reviews: 2 Trading Score:92	The PS3 does everything GREAT. Not nonly does it play DVDS, but it upconverts them as well.

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toef Blu-ray Champion Member since:May 2008 Location:Isla Nublar 4K collection:229 Blu-ray collection:545 Blu-ray reviews:1 Trading Score:4	I can see being surprised that the Wii doesn't play DVDs, but I don't know how you can be "impressed" that the PS3 does.

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STARSCREAM Blu-ray Ninja Member since:Feb 2008 Location:Dagobah Blu-ray collection:148 Trading Score:67	PS3 is one of best pieces of equipment period.

01-04-2009, 10:35 PM	#19
Blu350z Power Member Member since:Feb 2008 Location:Berkeley, CA Blu-ray collection:150 Trading Score:13	Ummm... Not sure if anyone remembers but I remember that Nintendo said it would play DVDs back when it was first shown, same time PS3 had 2 hdmi ports, a way to fight world hunger, and 3 Ethernet ports. Kidding aside, I heard that the Wii was supposed to play DVDs but psssff...DVDs.

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