Analyst: Sony Working on Blu-ray Free PlayStation 3

Video game "analysts" are a wondrous breed. Wondrous like the unicorn or Medusa. The doyenne is of course, Michael Pachter of Wedbush Morgan. But Michael might have to face some competition. The new kid on the block is an Edge-online find. Welcome Mike Hickey of Janco Partners^*.

We know Mike's been around for a while - and has said some less than idiotic things - but his latest outburst had us scratching our heads:

He begins sensibly enough - agreeing with, among other people, us - before heading off into what looks very much like a cloudy land run as a dictatorship by cuckoos:

"We are also hearing continued speculation that Sony is working on a non-Blu-ray PS3 console, which could enable them to make the aforementioned hardware price reduction."

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Deal of the Day: Free PS3 Remote with Blu Ray Purchases

I don’t know about you but watching a DVD on the PS3 is a little bit of a pain. I don’t do it often enough to remember which button to press to fast forward, pause, skip, etc. and I usually find out the hard way by skipping to a whole new chapter while my girlfriend looks at me with this bemused expression. Well, that problem is no more because you can Buy 3 Blu Ray DVDs and get a free PS3 Remote. The DVD’s are discounted up to 50% or more and as always with Amazon, shipping is free for orders over $25. Check it out and let us know which movies you end up going with.

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Here's why Blu-ray will be Dead by 2012

Planning to buy a Blu-ray player? Hold on. It's already battling public indifference, technical problems, laughable features and downloadable movies. Is it any wonder Blu-ray is doomed to fail? Here are five reasons why it's heading for the grave...

1. HD movie downloads

OK so the picture quality's not quite there yet, but Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and others have already seen the future of movie viewing at home - and it doesn't come on shiny 12cm discs.

Instead services like iTunes, Xbox Live and Vudu already offer HD movies over the internet, enabling you to see the movies you want without having to hack down to the video store in the pouring rain.

With fibre-to-home broadband slowly being rolled out in the UK, who knows what the next few years will bring.

2. BD-Live

Have you seen the demos? BD-Live is a joke. It's a second-rate attempt to offer interactive features that HD DVD did first and much, much better.

It won't work on old Blu-ray players (they don't have the persistent storage) and may not work on new ones: it's not mandatory for Blu-ray player makers to include it in the hardware they sell.

Result? Large doses of confusion and frustration for anyone (un)lucky enough to buy a Blu-ray disc with BD-Live features on it.

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Blu-ray in the PS3 - When Is Sony's Credit Due?

When you go against the grain because you feel you’re right, it can be an amazing feeling when everyone acknowledges your foresight and perseverance. To have a plan and stick to it even in the fact of likely failure can be considered confidence or foolhardiness; with the distinction being made once the final outcome has been determined. We seem to be one step closer to such a distinction with respect to the Playstation 3.

One major multi-pronged criticism of the Playstation 3 has been it’s forced inclusion of Blu-ray technology. I use the term “Blu-ray technology” because I think it’s very important to distinguish the Xbox 360’s optional support of HD-DVD movie playback from the Playstation 3’s mandatory support of both Blu-ray movie playback and BD-ROM storage for games.

The inclusion of Blu-ray on the Playstation 3 was responsible (in part) for: a higher price, slower disc reading speeds than DVD, limited availability early on due to a shortage of blue laser diodes, and causing the standalone Blu-ray player market to reach the market artificially late by hogging all the limited availability blue laser diodes in the first months after launch for Sony’s flagship Blu-ray player, the Playstation 3. When you add in the fact that early Blu-ray movies (still encoded in MPEG-2) looked worse than their VC-1 encoded HD-DVD counterparts and that the Blu-ray spec was outmatched feature-wise to HD-DVD, it would seem to have beeen easy money betting against Blu-ray.

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