40% of PS3 owners knows it plays blurays...

[Angrist]

And only 30% of Xbox 360 owners are aware of the possible HD output of their console.

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3161833

:D

[manasecret]

Idgets.

[Perfect Stu]

:D

:cool:

[Crash]

my xbox does hi-def? whoa!!! BONUS!

[Neo]

lol wut

[bobcat]

doesn't the Ps3 play red ray?

I'm confused again X_X

[Fox 6]

yeah some 360 habe been showing up with them in the premium packages

[DeathsHand]

yeah some 360 habe been showing up with them in the premium packages

360 has, of course, always done HD graphics... Just via component cables...
What's now just showing up in the premium packages is the inclusion of an HDMI port (previously only available on Elite models), which is an all digital audio/video transfer, offering a (supposedly) better picture with less of a chance for interference (from what, I don't know)...
Which excites me, since I wanted an HDMI port on my future 360, but only really need a premium model...

But yeah, people are dumb... If you have any kind of job that allows you to observe the actions of the general public, it's quite obvious... Half of them don't pay attention to anything... Another fairly large percentage only pay attention to what they want to pay attention to, and the rest are too simple and confused to comprehend what they are attempting to pay attention to...

[Professor S]

I find most people as they get older become more interested in career and family than in hobbies like videogames.

Priorities change...

[DeathsHand]

I find most people as they get older become more interested in career and family than in hobbies like videogames.

Priorities change...

Most people don't even realize that they have families, and aren't aware that careers will get them nowhere...
And in the meantime, they don't pay attention to anything else in their daily lives...

Various signs, what people say to them throughout the course of their day, colors, shapes, movement... Most scents...
It's all quite sad...

[GameMaster]

What's the percentage for people who don't give a flame-throwing fuck what kind of video their system plays and are only interested in using it to play games?

[gekko]

which is an all digital audio/video transfer, offering a (supposedly) better picture with less of a chance for interference (from what, I don't know)...

It's supposed better picture come from the fact 99.9% of people on the internet have no idea what they're talking about. It has to do with the logic that a digital signal traveling over a digital cable and being displayed on a digital TV sends a pure signal that is never once converted. The reality is quite different. The signal still passed through numerous processors, encoders, decoders, and scalers before it ever finally hits its destination. Your picture quality is dependent on the hardware the device is using, both the one that is sending, and the one that is receiving, and how well it can handle the various tasks without loss of quality. On certain TVs, analog will look better, and on others, HDMI looks better. Even so, by better, if you had both side-by-side, you would still struggle to see the differences.

The main benefit to HDMI is it's a one-cable-does-all solution. Aside from convenience, there is 0.000% reason to use HDMI on today's consoles. In fact, the only consumer products right now that benefit from HDMI are HD DVD players. HDMI is required to send the new HD audio signals, and HD DVD players all decode them at the source (player) before output. It's also beneficial if you have a HDMI 1.3 Blu-ray player and a new audio receiver which can decode the compressed signals. But currently that is the one and only benefit to using HDMI, and it only applies to HD DVD players (outputting to any HDMI receiver that accepts audio), and Blu-ray players (HDMI 1.3 and audio receivers that can decode TrueHD and DTS-HD MA).

All other features of HDMI to include HDMI 1.3 are not used in any way shape or form right now, nor will they be for a while.

[DeathsHand]

The main benefit to HDMI is it's a one-cable-does-all solution.

That's actually become my main reason for wanting an HDMI-equipped next-gen system...
Aside from the whole (supposedly) better graphics issue which you apparently debunked to the point of it being a non-issue, my two component cable inputs are already taken up by my PS2 and Wii...
And I'll be damned if I'm gonna switch 5 fuckin' dusty, awkwardly-placed wires every time I wanna switch from one system to another...

Call me lazy and you may have a point...

[Angrist]

There are component cable hubs, I suppose, but they might reduce quality.