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Thinking about getting a HD-DVD player, or the recently launched Blu-ray player? Just hold your horses. None of the players currently on the market support HDMI 1.3, which is essential to getting the absolute best in audio and video from a player. The first High Definition player to feature it will likely be Sony’s Playstation [...]

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It is looking like Sony will not let people sell their pre-owned games. The games will come with a license where you can’t sell a used PS3 game on eBay, your local game trade store, or whatever. Of course then the store can’t sell a used game either. If Sony is stupid enough to try [...]

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There will be two versions of Sony’s PlayStation 3 when it launches in November.
Check the table below taken from Sony’s website (in PDF):

PlayStation 3

Product Name
PlayStation 3

CPU
Cell Processor

GPU
RSX®

Sound
Dolby 5.1, DTS, LPCM, etc. (Cell-based processing)

Memory
256MB XDR Main RAM, 256MB GDDR3 VRAM

HDD
2.5" Serial ATA

20GB

60GB

I/O
USB 2.0

x4

Memory Stick/SD/Compact Flash

No

Yes

Communications
Ethernet
x1/10 Base-T, 100 Base-TX, 1000 Base-T

IEEE 802.11 b/g

No

Yes

Bluetooth 2.0 (EDR)

Yes

Wireless Controller [...]

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Sony’s Playstation 3 will launch in November. It was widely expected to be out in the United States here in November anyhow, so this is mostly just a delay for Japan, and an early present for Europe which probably normally would have had to wait a few more months. Didn’t they learn anything from the [...]

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