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Jack G

In Reply to: RE: Should I just get a PS3 to avoid the Blu-Ray Profile 2.0 problem some will face soon? posted by bullethead on February 17, 2008 at 09:45:31

Be aware the PS3 doesn't have 5.1 out and no IR remote. If you like the PS3 get it, if not you may want to wait a bit for complete stand alone players to come out, and longer before they are affordable. The question is, are you dying to see some BD movies now?
BTW, HD-DVD players still make good DVD players.
jack

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catch the wave - Joe Murphy Jr 20:51:55 02/17/08 (7)
Saw one for $14.99 at Babbages. Handles all of the options to play a disc via IR on the PS3 and, if you'd rather use a Universal remote, you can probably program the codes from the Nyko.
- Nyko Blu-Wave (Open in New Window)
- So, people should buy more gear because of a design flaw? - Jack G 06:29:16 02/18/08 (6)
  i don't think so. Maybe Sony should include it free in the box.
  Jack
  - the future is not a design flaw - Joe Murphy Jr 23:55:36 02/18/08 (5)
    Bluetooth is the future: IR is the past. If you're going to live there (the past), you have to accept the limitations.
    - Incompitability with (almost) all Universal remotes is a design flaw - Jack G 06:14:34 02/19/08 (4)
      You can argue all you want, but lacking compatibility is a flaw. If it wasn't, then the Nyko blu-wave wouldn't exist.
      Jack
      - here are 2 reasons it exists - Joe Murphy Jr 22:40:13 02/19/08 (3)
        
        In Reply to: RE: Incompitability with (almost) all Universal remotes is a design flaw posted by Jack G on February 19, 2008 at 06:14:34
        
        #1 $14.99 vs $24.99
        
        #2 A Learning/Universal remote can be programmed from it, so money will be made from purchases.
        
        Either one = $ for Nyko. It's not a flaw: it's an opportunity. Are the advanced audio codecs "flaws" because your current receiver can't decode them?
        
        RE: here are 2 reasons it exists - Jack G 11:30:28 02/20/08 (2)
        
        In Reply to: RE: here are 2 reasons it exists posted by Joe Murphy Jr on February 19, 2008 at 22:40:13
        
        > > > Are the advanced audio codecs "flaws" because your current receiver can't decode them? < < <
        If nobody's receiver can decode it, then its a flaw either in the design, or in the designer. :-)
        Jack
        
        you really misunderstood that one - Joe Murphy Jr 05:20:53 02/21/08 (1)
        
        In Reply to: RE: here are 2 reasons it exists posted by Jack G on February 20, 2008 at 11:30:28
        
        Bluetooth = advanced audio codecs in the analogy. And based on your comments, the advanced audio codecs (Bluetooth) are flawed design because your receiver (IR) can't decode them.
        
        Seems like the future can only be flawed to you: how depressing a mental state. Glad I don't look at things that way.
        
        Miscommunication, sorry-let me try again - Jack G 06:28:37 02/21/08 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: you really misunderstood that one posted by Joe Murphy Jr on February 21, 2008 at 05:20:53
        
        I assumed you were referring to DTS-HD MA in the advanced audio analogy, since we discussed it not long ago. If that wasn't your intention, my apologies.
        As for bluetooth, whether or not it really is the future, only time will tell, but to make it incompatible with older technologies is just bad planning. If not a design flaw, a flaw in someone's thinking. Seriously. That's like when Sony's first stand alone player would not play CDs. What were they thinking? Backward compatibility should not be a difficult concept to grasp. The idea of Sony passing the problem on to the consumer is insulting and demeaning to its customers.
        Jack

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