PS3 Price Drop

[v85rawdeal]

Does anybody have any aspirin????

[Harrison]

I noticed the other day while waiting in a cinema queue that their Samsung plasma screens displaying the film times had quite bad screen burn. It wasn't noticeable when the times were being displayed, but you could clearly see it when the pages changed.

I will definitely be getting an LCD, and not a plasma, when I eventually do buy one, as the technology has finally reached a level where LCD is now as good, if not better, than plasma on smaller screens. Obviously viewing a 60"+ Pioneer plasma still shows some impressive results!

[AlexJ]

My friend got giant Plasma and had it had the foot of his bed as part of his gaming set up he had to go to the doctors because his face ended up red like and burnt as if he had been near a UFO and his retanas in his eyes were burnt as well this was from the heat of the plasma.

It's recommended to sit at least 5' away from a 32"+ size screen. I'm not sure the comparison to UFO burns is of much use, to the best of our knowledge, barring conspiracy theories, there hasn't been any reports of UFO landings let alone the effects of people going near them. And burnt retinas are not caused by heat but by bright concentrated light sources (e.g. direct sunlight or laser).

[Harrison]

Maybe he was using a secret laser powered plasma!

[v85rawdeal]

Or he was watching football, and went to do a header *SMASH*

[Sharingan]

Are you kidding? Plasma TVs are considered highly dangerous. Not only can they cause major damage to Klingon battleships, they can also vaporize Borg cubes and destroy planets, Death Star style.

If Darth Vader had a Plasma TV, the Ewoks would never have taken over the universe.

[Demon Cleaner]

Many LCD and Plasma TVs now come with just one Scart and one HDMI port. Madness.

That's why I recently bought an HDMI switcher by Auvisio. I already had one by Joytech, which didn't support HDMI yet. This one has 4 HDMI outputs (plus 1 input), 4 scart outputs (plus 1 input), 4 optical outputs (plus 1 input) and also 2 ethernet in/outputs. And it comes with a nice remote control for about 130€.

I have the Joytech since 3 years now, and it's so easy to use, you just plug your cables (this one also had 4 optical) and chose with your remote which of the 4 channels you wanted. I never would give it away (perhaps now, as I have the Auvisio).

Auvisio HDMI switcher


And my Panasonic plasma TV was also a great investment, I would never give it away. I have a generation 8 Panasonic plasma, and they recently brought the 10th generation to the market. Oz bought the same model as mine, but the 9th generation. He bought it after he saw mine in action

And having it connected to a Panasonic S-97 HDMI DVD player and using 720p or 1080i is just a pure pleasure, Star Wars also looks awesome (that might interest Harrison).

And here again, for those who haven't seen it yet, my great Panasonic TV.

[Teho]

The PS1 and PS2 RGB or any of the other PS1 or PS2 cables dont work with the PS3 and they are not identical they dont fit in to the PS3.

This obviously needs to be cleared up; It is the exact same cable the PS1 and PS2 are using. I was sure about it before, but even so I just now quickly disconnected mine from my PS2 and checked that it fits in the PS3's connector, and it does indeed.

[v85rawdeal]

The PS1 and PS2 RGB or any of the other PS1 or PS2 cables dont work with the PS3 and they are not identical they dont fit in to the PS3.

This obviously needs to be cleared up; It is the exact same cable the PS1 and PS2 are using. I was sure about it before, but even so I just now quickly disconnected mine from my PS2 and checked that it fits in the PS3's connector, and it does indeed.

Which is the main reason why half my PS2 remains in its box (as I used all the PS1 connectors) and hence, why some of my PS3 cables are still unopened. Now that's what I call recycling!!!

[Teho]

Now that you mention it I did the same thing for the first couple of weeks, before I got the new TV. Taking a quick look in my PS3's packaging reveals the cable that came with it, still in its little plastic bag, unopened. So I also obviously just used the PS2's cable to start with. Definitely easier to just use the cable allready there instead of stretching a new one, it seems.