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by **Gunnar Horrigm** » Thu, 19 Jul 2001 19:04:21

> PS2's DVD bit rate is very average, so it struggles a little. You pay for
> what you get, I say. It's about as good as a mid-range DVD player, which
> now is about US $200. But it's not bad, not bad at all if you consider it's
> also a console.

speaking of also-consoles; anyone tried one of the new(ish) Nuon-based
DVD-players?

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by **Olav K. Malm** » Thu, 19 Jul 2001 19:15:41

> > I have yet to have any problems playing any DVD's so far. The picture
> > quality has been excellent compared to VHS movies, and it has never had
> any
> > of the random problems I have had with DVD on my PC.
> > Sound quality has also been first rate.

> PS2's DVD bit rate is very average, so it struggles a little. You pay for
> what you get, I say. It's about as good as a mid-range DVD player, which
> now is about US $200. But it's not bad, not bad at all if you consider it's
> also a console. The only important features missing are picture control and
> Colorstream composite components (I have a Toshiba 65H80). Hopefully you
> are at least using an S-Video cable to enhance your picture quality.

> Some people will of course nitpick that it's not region free or it doesn't
> have stuff like zooming, multiple FF speeds (I love my 30x FF!), no backward
> slomo, no progressive scan (480p would be quite a impressive on the PS2 if
> the TV supports it), no frame-per-frame, doesn't play all the format (VCD,
> SVCD, etc.. but that's just home theater geeks ;-)

Here in Europe a region free DVD player is a must. It's getting better
now, but the production quality of the movies released here are often
on a laughable level, like no 5.1 sound and no widescreen and so on.

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by **Bill and Ben, the flower pot men** » Thu, 19 Jul 2001 20:48:02

On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 06:00:49 -0400, "ymenard"

>But hey, stuff like the PS2 is bringing the DVD to the mass, which is not a
>bad thing. But please anybody, don't buy a PS2 and use it primary as a DVD
>player! :-/

Of course not, but getting a game console and DVD player in one unit
is a nice insentive. I doubt I would even get GT3 for it anyway,
because I'm not going to play a racing game on a gamepad and buying a
wheel is an expensive option with no place to mount it to anyway. What
do people do when they play such a game on a console, put a desk in
front of their TV so they have somewhere to mount the wheel and
pedals?

by **Chojintek** » Fri, 20 Jul 2001 01:54:24

It supports the I-Link, Which is basically a firewire cable.
My friend and I spent a few hours with our PS2's plugged together playgin
GT3.
The GT3 manual says you can plug in up to six through a firewire HUB.

> > PS: It does have the hooks in the software for the upcoming Sony
> > I-net connection device for multiplayer whatever that turns out to
> > be.

> It does? you sure? I read somewhere that it only supported the
> link-cable-thing, which is only available in Japan I believe.

> I've read a lot of strange things, though. :)

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by **Gunnar Horrigm** » Fri, 20 Jul 2001 04:03:13

> It supports the I-Link, Which is basically a firewire cable.
> My friend and I spent a few hours with our PS2's plugged together playgin
> GT3.
> The GT3 manual says you can plug in up to six through a firewire
> HUB.

not six PS2s? three PS2s in split-screen, no?

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by **Joe6** » Fri, 20 Jul 2001 04:51:49

On Fri, 13 Jul 2001 13:20:02 +0100, "Racecraft"

>Anyway, personally I couldn't give a monkeys if it looks like F1GP, as long
>as it feels nice to drive, is a challenge to drive and it has good
>mulitplayer then I'm 'very appy'.

GT3 fits the bill then ... as long as you're willing to set up a
little GT3-arcade for multiplayer (i.e., multipler PS2s & TVs). Less
accessible multiplayer to be sure, but not lesser quality.

by **Joe6** » Fri, 20 Jul 2001 04:55:57

On Sat, 14 Jul 2001 16:37:40 -0400, "ymenard"

>riiiight <roll eyes>. I've seen better car modeling in most of the PC
>simulations.

Um, no. Whatever it's flaws may be, the car models are unequaled on
any platform.

by **Christopher E. Johnso** » Fri, 20 Jul 2001 11:48:33

Huh? Raced many sims? Or maybe your definition of modeling doesn't
include visually modeling damage and other things missing from GT3's
"unequaled" car models.

Chris

by **Juha J Paas** » Fri, 20 Jul 2001 16:54:47

> not six PS2s? three PS2s in split-screen, no?

If you link three PS2s in split-screen, you get three "duels" , 2-player
races. If you link six PS2s and six TVs via i-Link, you get one
6-player race.

- JjP

by **Joe6** » Sat, 21 Jul 2001 00:12:17

Pretty much all of them (no, visual damage isn't a big deal to me - no
one's ever really pulled that off well in a visal sense anyway).

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by **Joe6** » Sat, 21 Jul 2001 02:49:42

I agree. I use it because it's my only DVD player, but it is
feature-short and not very user friendly.

by **Eldre** » Sun, 22 Jul 2001 03:10:54

>> not six PS2s? three PS2s in split-screen, no?

>If you link three PS2s in split-screen, you get three "duels" , 2-player
>races. If you link six PS2s and six TVs via i-Link, you get one
>6-player race.

Now that actually sounds pretty cool - a LAN party for PS2s...<g> I actually
haven't follwed them enough to remember they had connectivity.

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by **Galley_SimRace** » Sun, 22 Jul 2001 03:56:34

>>> not six PS2s? three PS2s in split-screen, no?

>>If you link three PS2s in split-screen, you get three "duels" ,
> 2-player
>>races. If you link six PS2s and six TVs via i-Link, you get one
>>6-player race.

> Now that actually sounds pretty cool - a LAN party for PS2s...<g> I
> actually
> haven't follwed them enough to remember they had connectivity.

> Eldre

I believe you can also hook up a 7th set for spectators to view the
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by **Sinj** » Sun, 22 Jul 2001 16:47:28

>>>> not six PS2s? three PS2s in split-screen, no?

>>>If you link three PS2s in split-screen, you get three "duels" ,
>> 2-player
>>>races. If you link six PS2s and six TVs via i-Link, you get one
>>>6-player race.

>> Now that actually sounds pretty cool - a LAN party for PS2s...<g> I
>> actually
>> haven't follwed them enough to remember they had connectivity.

>> Eldre

>I believe you can also hook up a 7th set for spectators to view the
>action.

What's REALLY cool is if you link 6 PS2's and 6 TV's it will multiplex the video
out to all 6 TV's to create one giant TV (like those video walls). I doubt
anyone other than an appliance story would be able to do this. I'd love to see
it at Best Buy but they would never take 6 PS2's out of the box.

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