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Re: Decided to buy a PS3 - couple of questions...

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fizz wrote:ahh... so because i aint got wifi setup yet i cant connect the PSP properly.

Cheers for the info. :)

Right.. best place to buy a HDMI cable and what to go for? i know the prices range from £15 to £80 but whats the best one for value and quality combo?


Just a generic HDMI cable will do. No need to spend silly money on it.
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Lauren wrote:Just a generic HDMI cable will do. No need to spend silly money on it.


Agreed, a £5 ebay jobby will do the same job as an £80 Monster Titanium/Gold/Unicorn Poo plated one.
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viperrr wrote:
Lauren wrote:Just a generic HDMI cable will do. No need to spend silly money on it.


Agreed, a £5 ebay jobby will do the same job as an £80 Monster Titanium/Gold/Unicorn Poo plated one.



now i agreed with this till about 2 weeks ago but im still not sure?

cheaper cables have a much lower max transfer rate.


mite have to do some reading but it would seem they do make a difference. i guess it depends how much data current bluray and HD games use.
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fizz wrote:ahh... so because i aint got wifi setup yet i cant connect the PSP properly.

Cheers for the info. :)

Right.. best place to buy a HDMI cable and what to go for? i know the prices range from £15 to £80 but whats the best one for value and quality combo?


You don't need to set up WiFi to use Remote Play - the PS3 becomes an access point for it. It does it all automatically!
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SamUK wrote:
viperrr wrote:
Lauren wrote:Just a generic HDMI cable will do. No need to spend silly money on it.


Agreed, a £5 ebay jobby will do the same job as an £80 Monster Titanium/Gold/Unicorn Poo plated one.



now i agreed with this till about 2 weeks ago but im still not sure?

cheaper cables have a much lower max transfer rate.


mite have to do some reading but it would seem they do make a difference. i guess it depends how much data current bluray and HD games use.
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RichardK wrote:What you can't do is use the PSP as a monitor for playing a PS3 title remotely.


You can but at the moment the PS3 version of Lair is the only title to have remote play implemented. Formula 1 was rumored to be having a patch to support it but it never surfaced.
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I thought Formula 1 previewed with using the PSP as a remote rear view mirror, or something? I knew it was possible in theory but not something it can do by default with every game.
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GT5 is expected to have the PSP/rear mirror option via remote play, Would be a cool feature.

And i've read Lair is useless via remote play anyway because you don't have L2 & R2 buttons #-o
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matt_mr2t wrote:
SamUK wrote:
viperrr wrote:

Agreed, a £5 ebay jobby will do the same job as an £80 Monster Titanium/Gold/Unicorn Poo plated one.



now i agreed with this till about 2 weeks ago but im still not sure?

cheaper cables have a much lower max transfer rate.


mite have to do some reading but it would seem they do make a difference. i guess it depends how much data current bluray and HD games use.
Every professional test done shows no difference between p1$$ cheap cables and expensive ones. It's a con.


thats what i thought.

but i dont get why the expensive ones have such a high transfer rate if it isnt needed.
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It's technobable to lure suckers in.
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its not really babble.

its just how much data the cable can transfer.

does anyone know the transfer rate for a 1080p bluray movie?

im not arguing that the cheaper cable will do us fine but im jus wondering why they do the higher transfer rate if they dont need it.

will we use it in the future so is it a case of it does matter what cable you buy but were not fully taking advantage of them yet so the cheaper ones will do for now?
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bingo... are the cheaper ones suitable for our needs? i.e blue ray etc.. :thumleft:
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Every test done shows no difference at all! It's just a case of putting higher numbers on the packaging to lure people. Seriously, just google hdmi cable test. Imagine if the government fitted speed restrictors to all cars. Would it then make a blind bit of difference if you had 300hp or 150? The end result would be the same.
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I shall take a gander later but i dont doubt you at all... Just thinking about how soon they will start using this extra transfer rate.
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1080p is the highest resolution you can currently get on bluray and tv's and hdmi v1.3 can deal with 1080p. Now unless i'm very wrong here there's no way a bluray player or tv can be updated to suddenly display more than 1080p so as far as i can tell, you'll never need more? Until the next gen of toys come out with even higher resolution.
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matt_mr2t wrote:1080p is the highest resolution you can currently get on bluray and tv's and hdmi v1.3 can deal with 1080p. Now unless i'm very wrong here there's no way a bluray player or tv can be updated to suddenly display more than 1080p so as far as i can tell, you'll never need more? Until the next gen of toys come out with even higher resolution.



yea so thats what i mean. they are trying to sell us cables we dont need yet which seems a bit odd.
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SamUK wrote:
matt_mr2t wrote:1080p is the highest resolution you can currently get on bluray and tv's and hdmi v1.3 can deal with 1080p. Now unless i'm very wrong here there's no way a bluray player or tv can be updated to suddenly display more than 1080p so as far as i can tell, you'll never need more? Until the next gen of toys come out with even higher resolution.



yea so thats what i mean. they are trying to sell us cables we dont need yet which seems a bit odd.


Have you SEEN the stuff they sell to audiophiles?

It's a digital signal. It's either there, or it isn't. If the cable is broken, you'll get dropouts, you cannot - with the same source and display device - get better "colour", "texture" or any other number of analogue things by using a different wire. A computer in the playback device calculates which numbers to send up the cable, and if those numbers don't all make it, then the sums aren't completed by the computer at the other end - and there are checks to ensure data integrity remains.

I would suggest that LONG - and I mean really long - cables might be improved by being better quality just to ensure the signals reach where they're going at the same time, but then that's going to be a case of "this cable doesn't work, this one does". Not the BS that reviewers of high-end cables spout.
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I'm sure the odd reviewer that says there's a difference get some nice beer tokens. The best one was on the gadget show where no one could tell a blind bit of difference.
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Right... finally started messing abotu with the PSP remote play and i am amazed by it!

I can watch all my DivX films on it via wifi which is excellent and the remote start is great too! I am loving my PS3!!! :mrgreen: :clap: :thumleft:
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fizz wrote:Right... finally started messing abotu with the PSP remote play and i am amazed by it!

I can watch all my DivX films on it via wifi which is excellent and the remote start is great too! I am loving my PS3!!! :mrgreen: :clap: :thumleft:


Lol, what about games?
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