Wish Linkin's system, I wonder if it was broken before shipping? I'd guess so, but it's even possible it got broken since the idiot threw it into a box...I mean geez! I wonder if they pack LCD screens that way too? :lol:
[quote name='AdvOfJet']Quick question for more experienced PS3 users, is there a reason why more games on the PS3 do not support 1080p resolution ? It seems as if even games that support 1080p on the 360 only have 720p support on the PS3.[/quote]
I think The Mana Knight pretty much covered this, but just to be clear, 360 games DON'T support 1080p. They're rendered at 720p, and sometimes lower (some of the Project Gotham games, Halo 3, etc.), and then it's internal scaler outputs the game at the selected resolution.
Unfortunately I don't think a lot of people understand the (huge) distinction, and if the next-next gen systems support 1080p, people will think "but I already had that on my 360!" As well as not understanding that a Playstation 3 game that's displaying 1080p is displaying and processing 2.25x more visual info than a 360 that's "displaying" 1080p. Personally I think it's deceptive. Basically Microsoft is trying to turn a weakness (a system that has even less of a shot rendering at 1080p than the Playstation 3) into a strength (look! every game is 1080p!) by pretty much lying.
As others mentioned, it can be nice having a scaler in the system, and that was probably a good move on Microsoft's part, but if your TV has a good scaler (which it should, if you bought it for gaming) the TV's scaler is going to do a good job too. Sony's TVs (at least recent ones) have excellent scalers that I know are better than Samsung's, but I'm not sure who else ships them with good scalers, as I'm sure that does increase the price at least slightly (I'd think it's got to be a fairly hefty piece of silicon).
The scratch coating on the BR discs helps a ton as well with all the friends, nieces, nephews, wife, other relatives and such not being as careful with things as I am.
What is that? I didn't realize they had anything. That's cool! I'm not going to complain if they can get these discs a bit more robust.