On January 12, 2008 at 10:40, DJSOLRAC said...
When the VHS/Betamax war was going on the consumers chose
VHS, mostly due to lower costs.
Actually consumers were choosing Beta first, VHS inevitably
won because of the Porn industry choice of VHS as their
preferred format.
There were some other benefits to VHS that also helped it win, including longer recording times. Sure, it looked horrible, but you could record for 4 hours versus Beta's 1 hour at the time. Beta added slower tape modes eventually, but VHS' bigger tapes still gave them an edge (10.5 hours!).
Sony is tring to enter the Home Theater HD market with a gaming machine. What a joke.
The only flaw with the PS3 in a home theater setting is the control methods, and possibly fan noise after it's been working a while (although it's not alone in that last one). As a piece of hardware it's inexpensive, powerful, versatile, reliable, and easily upgradeable. I picked up a 20gb PS3 within the first week of its release, and I've used it almost exclusively for BD playback and as a media extender. I knew back then that it could be and would be kept up-to-date with the ever-evolving BD specs, and sure enough it has.
When a final profile standalone player comes out that's as fast to operate as the PS3 I'll mostly likely replace it and move the PS3 to a bedroom where it might actually get some game play...
