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Nerf Smurf
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 Posted - Oct 08 2003 : 12:47:46 AM
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Sony Corp. (SNE) showed off its PSX, the beefed up PlayStation 2 video-game machine that also works as a DVD recorder, analog TV, digital photo album and music player and goes on sale in Japan late this year for just over $700.
The offering from the Japanese electronics and entertainment giant underlines the intensifying competition in the industry to sell the idea of home digital entertainment that introduces computer functions from the office into the living room.
The PSX, slated for sale next year in the U.S. and European markets, took center stage Tuesday at the Sony booth at CEATEC Japan, an annual major electronics show near Tokyo, where Sony's rivals are also showing off their wares.
http://www.rednova.com/news/stories/3/2003/10/07/story001.html for more info
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Aaron Cake
Administrator
Canada
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Posted - Oct 08 2003 : 09:54:08 AM
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Every consumer electronic device is expensive when it first hits the market...Wait two months and the price will be half.
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BEatonNo1
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
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Posted - Oct 08 2003 : 12:10:23 PM
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I doubt that it will be priced that much when they bring it to the american market. I would guess somewhere around $400-$500
However, I am looking forward to it because it will shurely bring down the price of the PS2
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Nerf Smurf
Mad Scientist
USA
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Posted - Oct 08 2003 : 6:32:24 PM
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as soon as the PSX comes out the PS2 will be just "A Piece of Crap". Just like the PS1
Edward, A. Williams Jr.
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cirvin
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
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Posted - Oct 08 2003 : 7:52:19 PM
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no, th graphics should b th sam, just more featurs so they can drive th prices higher becaus the playstation 2 was overshadowd by a bit by the gamecube witch maks ho sns to m. i love th ps2
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BEatonNo1
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
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Posted - Oct 08 2003 : 11:22:26 PM
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Dude you really need to fix your "E" key
Yeah its the same thing but in a shiny box with some more bells and wistles.
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Posted - Oct 09 2003 : 1:23:36 PM
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damn, ive been dying to build something like that on a pc platform that is minimal (anyone seen the openbrick) as a music player, pc with internet, and can play games... and hook up to your tv and play dvds. it really is an awesome idea, but right now i dont think that the prices will go down dramatically at first... have to see when it gets here. but power users have for years had tv tuners and internet radio all while playing games and checking email, why not take it to the living room? size woulda been a complaint a couple years ago, but now, i think its a project that could be done and has been done by pc makers, just not yet successfully... maybe PSX can put a spin on the market. but you know, damn M$ will jump onto it pretty soon, as soon as they can put all their money into marketing it
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Posted - Oct 09 2003 : 1:25:21 PM
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yeah with sony in a shake money wise theyd like to see this go through, but i dunno if ppl want it enough yet...
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Kale
Nobel Prize Winner
Canada
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Posted - Oct 09 2003 : 4:18:34 PM
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The PSX is more like the PS2.5
It has a PS2 core with DVD recording onboard and some improved sound stuff. Unless you plan on recording a lot of stuff onto DVDs, it's probably not worth buying.
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Posted - Oct 10 2003 : 07:48:06 AM
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more of the idea i mean though, that you have a system sitting at your tv that you control from your couch yet its like a dvd playeror something except you can do everything on it... those who put linux on the xbox have an idea of this... i dunno now im starting to confuse myself, damn, i think i need to go to sleeeeeepp....
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Aaron Cake
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Canada
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Posted - Oct 10 2003 : 09:19:22 AM
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It already exists. Check out Windows XP Media Center Edition. Only sold with hardware though...
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Posted - Oct 10 2003 : 10:53:14 AM
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yeah, and theyve got the remote control and all that crap, but i kinda meant that i wanted to build it myself... but your right, i forgot about M$ media center edition 
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Kale
Nobel Prize Winner
Canada
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Posted - Oct 11 2003 : 11:46:08 PM
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I just tend to use my PC for all my entertainment needs. I don't plan on buying a DVD player: I'm just getting a DVD drive in my new machine and a video card with TV out.
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Posted - Oct 13 2003 : 09:51:01 AM
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a lot cheaper that way... man it would be nice to have a projecter to go along with it, though... 
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BEatonNo1
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
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Posted - Oct 13 2003 : 6:17:14 PM
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well dvd players are really cheap...plus they are less prone to have jumpy vidieo. alot of the new systems have the surround sound and dvd players all in one.
However I do agree about using the computer for most needs. music, gaming, surfing ect ect
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Nerf Smurf
Mad Scientist
USA
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Posted - Oct 14 2003 : 01:59:48 AM
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Yea. A DVD sells at about $30-60 at wal*Mart
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The PSX (The Play Station 3) $700 FOOLS
