ignores the fact no one can get all the features the PSX offers wrapped
up into one product anywhere else.
Sony's troubles in delivering some of the features you mentioned can be
attributed to 3rd party vendors raising the cost of components,
especially the hardware for the DVD-RW+. In order to keep the cost of
the unit from being a kidney and a lung, they had to scale back to
assuage other people's greed. One thing I heard was that, in the final
arrangement, offering a 24x DVD-RW+ would have raised the cost per unit
by another $200.
It is likely, when this beast does hit US shores, Sony will have come to
some agreement with outside vendors and found a way to deliver many of
the features you mention. There will either be another competitor
offering the same thing, or there will be a price drop on the component
parts.
The thing to realize is that the PSX is a beast, it does do a whole lot
of things better than other products, and it will make you appear young
and good looking regardless of your age.
M
-----Original Message-----
From: Angel Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 10:32 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: RE: PSX
The PSX was supposed to be Sony's killer All in One home theatre
center
that did everything from record tv shows, burn DVD Rs, play
CDRWs, and
provide the functionality of a PS2 gaming system.
However, for reasons unknown, they cut back on several of these
features
at production. The drive speeds were cut back from 24x to 12x,
support
for DVD RW+ recording was removed, along with MP3 Playback
support in
favor of Sony's mini-disc format ATRAC. They say that there will
be a
software 'upgrade' available to enable a few features that are
missing,
but my suggestion is to hold off on this until we see what they
actually
ship to the US market.
As for playing Xbox games? No way. THis is a Sony machine, Xbox
is
Microsoft :)
-Gel
-----Original Message-----
From: Harkins, Patrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 11:12 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: PSX
My son teels me it will be able to play x-box and ps 1 and 2
games.
true?
thx,
Patrick
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