superbad on any media really. 

.....I have a boner.... 

Hey guys, i doubt u guys will be in this kind of a situation, but maybe you can help,

I just bought some decent HDTV Component Cables for my ps3-tv (the only drawback of the ps3 i can think of is not coming with them) and I am running into the same problem I had with my shitty 360: the system does not have an aspect ratio setting. Thus my 30" CRT 1080i-possible below average HDTV, is being forced to broadcast either 16:9 with bars, or 4:3 with awkward stretching (or deal with 480 w/ 4:3 and lose the whole HD experience altogether). The zoom function on my tv allows me to zoom, as in a pan and scan shitty zoomed setting you will. Any ideas, or like everyone else that likes low priced, albeit heavy, clear crisp picture of a flat tube crt HDTV am i just stuck with this?

I dealt with it with the 360, but i never really enjoyed using that thing. 

My roommate and I both got PS3s with Kmart's infamous 20% off any 1 item coupon. I was upsold into getting the 80gig (orginally I wanted the 60 due to hardware emulation.) It can play PS2 games just fine, however. It came with MotorStorm--that game pisses me off so damn much! I'm on one of the last races. The AI gets so annoying, plus I hate when they make the races at night so you can't see ANYTHING; I'm so glad I spent $400 so that way I couldn't see what awesome graphics the PS3 was capable of. Otherwise, I'm extremely satisfied with the PS3. I think the system works well, feels solid, and I like the controller way more than the 360's.

Anyway nobody's mentioned Little Big Planet yet--I think that will be one of the best games for the PS3.

My ID is Guild220. I need more people to play MotorStorm with! 

Guild220 said:

My roommate and I both got PS3s with Kmart's infamous 20% off any 1 item coupon. I was upsold into getting the 80gig (orginally I wanted the 60 due to hardware emulation.) It can play PS2 games just fine, however.

I went to get one with the coupon when they had restocked (I posted the coupon on fazed the 2nd day it was effective actually, then I saw someone had made a thread just for it, ha) but when they had a system available, the coupon wouldn't go through. My bud got one though the week before. I settled on 15% at target. I wanted a 60, but they were out, so i got the 80gb. But i also was afraid of the ps3 acting like the 360. Emulation just didn't work well on my 360. Games crashed a lot. So far ive logged about 10 hours on GTA: SA with no trouble. 

thebritons said:

Hey guys, i doubt u guys will be in this kind of a situation, but maybe you can help,

I just bought some decent HDTV Component Cables for my ps3-tv (the only drawback of the ps3 i can think of is not coming with them) and I am running into the same problem I had with my shitty 360: the system does not have an aspect ratio setting. Thus my 30" CRT 1080i-possible below average HDTV, is being forced to broadcast either 16:9 with bars, or 4:3 with awkward stretching (or deal with 480 w/ 4:3 and lose the whole HD experience altogether). The zoom function on my tv allows me to zoom, as in a pan and scan shitty zoomed setting you will. Any ideas, or like everyone else that likes low priced, albeit heavy, clear crisp picture of a flat tube crt HDTV am i just stuck with this?

I dealt with it with the 360, but i never really enjoyed using that thing.

Is this when playing games or watching movies? 

games. movies i of course choose 16:9 or which ever widescrean it is 

Trying changing the resolution to 720p in the XMB Display settings. If that doesn't work then you will probably need to go into your television's service menu and adjust your overscan. You can some good help about that in the AVS Forums. Seems to be common problem with certain tubes from what I understand. 

yea i'm pretty sure theres gotta be a setting somewhere either on the ps3 or your tv for aspect ratio. 

yeah. i mentioned it when i asked, i can set my tv to 16:9, or zoomed 16:9 (so a mock 4:3) if i want 1080i picture quality. but neither are both the picture quality and the full game screen that is acceptable. the ps3 has no option, just like the 360. unfortionately. so i have to set my tv and deal with bars on 16:9 

Only other suggestion I can make would be to search or post up on the Sony PS3 boards. Easy answer I know but my curiousity was peaked, maybe you'll have better luck.

Nice update yesterday. High Velocity Bowling and new trailers for MGS4 and GTA4. 

I just got Jericho and Ninja Gaiden Sigma. Ninja Gaiden seems sweet so far but I haven't gotten to sit down with it for more than 20 minutes. Jericho is somewhat disappointing to me. I had been following the game for a while and considering buying it but I just rented it. It has no multiplayer, sub par voice acting, and pretty linear gameplay. The AI is pretty retarded. THe concept of the story is pretty great but poorly executed. I dunno, It seems to be getting better the more I play, I'll probably beat it just for the hell of it but it sjust another disappointment for my ps3 :( 

NGS is a great game and you'll feel like a ninja when you get into it heh. It's really challenging so be prepared to stop yourself from throwing the controller. The camera work could have been a little bit better, especially when fighting in tighter quarters. The second story with Rachel is meh but she's polygraphic correct. I enjoyed it overall, beautiful looking game.

I dnloaded High Velocity Bowling today, I'll try and post up a review this weekend. 

just beat assassin's creed... and holy shit. I don't want to spoill anything but this has got to be one of the deepest, and eerily real conspiracy plots ever. If you type 'Assassin's Creed Ending' in google you'll get a detailed explanation of the whole thing... in case it left you shaking your head. 

Recluse said:

Jericho is somewhat disappointing to me. I had been following the game for a while and considering buying it but I just rented it. It has no multiplayer, sub par voice acting, and pretty linear gameplay. The AI is pretty retarded. THe concept of the story is pretty great but poorly executed.

i played the demo last night. i didn't like the game very much at all. but it was not a great level for a demo i don't think. 

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/zeropunctuation/2633-Ze ro-Punctuation-Clive-Barker-s-Jericho

Jericho review from Zero Punctuation if you have not seen it. 

i have not. thank you.
after seeing what he had to say,
i got that impression from the demo, so its good to know the game is just lik the demo. 

I just completed Folklore, and quite enoyed it. I went out and bought CoD 4, and Uncharted after completing it.

CoD4 is the shit, I started the single player campaign and could not put it down. I forced myself to quit playing after the mission "One shot, one kill." This game is so rediculously intense and enjoyable.

Spoiler:

The scene where the nuke goes off and you regain control of the american, and you slowly crawl out of the crashed helicopter at ground zero was amazing. The sounds of the children playing and laughing on the empty post nuked park was hauntingly eerie in surround sound.

I can't wait to beat it so I can jump into multiplayer.

Uncharted is equaly enjoyable. It is like playing an Indiana Jones movie. All of the characters are enjoyable and the voice acting is top notch. The gameplay is nothing to turn your nose up at either. It's very emersive and some of the shoot outs are nuts. I died countless times but was never frustrated or turned away from just respawning and trying it all again.

I would highly recomend both games, though I don't think it was necessary for CoD4.

On another note I got a copy of Planet Earth on Blue Ray as a gift, and this is the sole reason HD formats were invented. I have had all of my freinds over to watch it, and it is all I use to show off my tv/surround system. 

I have had all of my freinds over to watch it, and it is all I use to show off my tv/surround system.

I *just* did that last night.. I only wish I could see real life in HD too. 

Time Shift demo isn't anything special. I think I was expecting something else but it just seemed like another FPS with nothing new to offer.

High Velocity Bowling is pretty cool. Easily a fun drinking game to enjoy with friends.

Blu-Ray releases this week, Dec. 11th
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter Limited Edition Gift Set: Years 1-5
Lost: The Complete Third Season
High School Musical 2: Extended Edition
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
The Legend of Zorro
Led Zeppelin: The Song Remains the Same
RENT
SOS! Tokyo Metro Explorers: The Next 

i enjoyed the game timeshift.
i would rank it in my top 5 fps
great great campaign
i wish i hadnt bought it before i got my ps3- im not paying for xboxLIVE

ive been playing vice city (original) on the system. its a lot easier now that ive logged a billion hours between GTA: SA and Liberty City Stories in the last couple years 

Now that I beat assassin's creed and cod4, i'm going back and beating all the games I left unfinished.

I'm on the last mission of R6: vegas, and the last race of NFS: carbon. I seriously got so pissed at jericho friday night I threw the controller, put it back in its gamefly pouch and immediately went outside at 2am to drop it in the fucking mailbox. I still have Ninja Gaiden to keep me busy tho. Hopefully they send me ratchet and clank or uncharted next. 

CrispyCroissant said:

I did play Resistance in a co-op mode with my friend and it was fun regardless.. But other than that, I too will stick to my PC for shooters. I just have to get it upgraded if I intend to get Crysis.

Yeah...Crysis looks awesome, but damn. I've heard of people spending a cool grand just to play that game. That seems a bit ridiculous to me. 

I was on a bus and the dude next to me was playing Crysis on his Macbook Pro, and it was running pretty well. The specs on last year's macbook (the one he had) was only 2 ghz core duo, 1gb ram and a radeon 9600 

err i'm sorry radeon x1600se 

i just picked up time splitters(3): future perfect. my favorite fps WAS timesplitters 2. now its TS3. Its just fuckings great. 49 weapons/20 maps (or so) out of the box. plus twice that to unlock.
i wish i hadnt waited years to get around to picking it up. course- now its $17 instead of $50. 

I had spent 100+ hours on Time Splitters 3.
Unlocking everything, making my own maps, getting all challenges to platinum status, and had mastered every single aspect of that game down to no look headshots with bricks.
Then I bought my PS3 and it would not let me copy my data from PS2 memory card to PS3 internal memory card, I was so damn pissed. 

hey man, does ur map making open on the ps3 at all? i think the disk i bought is fucked up. i cant get it to open. nobody online has said anything in ps3 forums, so i think ill bring it back tomorrow and get another copy. 

lol ps3 

thebritons said:

yeah. i mentioned it when i asked, i can set my tv to 16:9, or zoomed 16:9 (so a mock 4:3) if i want 1080i picture quality. but neither are both the picture quality and the full game screen that is acceptable. the ps3 has no option, just like the 360. unfortionately. so i have to set my tv and deal with bars on 16:9

Well, since you're on just component cables you should set your tv to 720, since they dont really support 1080i, or just go buy an HDMI cable to do that. The PS3 does have the option though. When you go to select the input/audio, select the RGB components, then another screen pops up and allows you to choose between 16:9 and 4:3. It just hides, thats all. 

thebritons said:

hey man, does ur map making open on the ps3 at all? i think the disk i bought is fucked up. i cant get it to open. nobody online has said anything in ps3 forums, so i think ill bring it back tomorrow and get another copy.

Hadn't really tried it since I couldn't get my data to transfer, but I just popped it in and yeah it works fine. 

Has anyone found a way to play DivX movies on PS3? It'd make my life a lot easier since my computer and PS3 are in different rooms to just set it up somehow on a media server.

My ID is Bearclawch 

I just got your invite. I'm in the middle of cod4 but ill add you soon. 

Bearclawch said:

Has anyone found a way to play DivX movies on PS3? It'd make my life a lot easier since my computer and PS3 are in different rooms to just set it up somehow on a media server.

My ID is Bearclawch

an update is coming. check engadget.com - they had a little bit of info about it a couple weeks back. the system will get it with the next system update i think is pretty much the case.
till then you can use programs like tversity or nero. a lot of forums online have how-to's on how to to set that up. 

LorD de SeiS said:

Well, since you're on just component cables you should set your tv to 720, since they dont really support 1080i, or just go buy an HDMI cable to do that. The PS3 does have the option though. When you go to select the input/audio, select the RGB components, then another screen pops up and allows you to choose between 16:9 and 4:3. It just hides, thats all.

ill look into that tomorrow. thanx man! i hope it works alright.
i cant use hdmi- since my audio is through a component audio converter to my surround sound- not to my tv or a system that goes to my tv. i ended up buying the hi-def component cables for that reason (the blue/green/red type). then i have the red and white audios go straight to my surround sound speakers through a converter.

Ararcyn said:

Hadn't really tried it since I couldn't get my data to transfer, but I just popped it in and yeah it works fine.

 

^ i meant to say that sucks. i hope gamestop will take back the disk since its damaged. i never buy used games. for this reason. 

Hey, for your COD4 guys, I found this awesome forum site. Lots of info and good discussion about strats and custom classes/perks.

http://www.cod4forums.com 

thebritons said:

i hope gamestop will take back the disk since its damaged. i never buy used games. for this reason.

 

fuck. idk why i pressed post.
but they took back the game and gave me a new copy. i guess they were out of used ones. pretty badass though. the map editor is just as insane as the one from TS2. 

Hey PS3-pwning fazers, want 5 free blue ray movies?
*PS3's bought 10/1/07 through 1/31/08.
I heard about this offer, but took me a week to get around to finding it.
Click Here
To find the PS3 deal on the site type PS398004 in the search window at the top right
(as far as I can tell from the pdf, it is for any PS3, not the 80gb specifically)
Click Learn more to open the pdf- and follow the directins

via: random forum 

btw: im ordering them to ebay them- don't think i care for the selection. 

Yeah I did that when I bought mine over the Summer. Looks like the movie selection has changed again. Took 3 months to get to me but I got them. 5 free BR movies, why not? That's pretty much $150 for free. 

Typically, it's for Americans only.
I want some freebies damnit. 

really? thats lame. sorry man. 

Haha, no worries, I'm used to it.
It's not like you made the rules.
(Or did you?!) 

LorD de SeiS said:

Well, since you're on just component cables you should set your tv to 720, since they dont really support 1080i, or just go buy an HDMI cable to do that. The PS3 does have the option though. When you go to select the input/audio, select the RGB components, then another screen pops up and allows you to choose between 16:9 and 4:3. It just hides, thats all.

right- so i tried it today: i couldnt get the option under 720p- but under 480p it gave me the option for 4:3. its clear as hell now- but it makes me sad that I am stuck with either a clear picture this way- or a slightly better 16:9 barred view. I love my TV- but now i might consider saving for a better set. Ive never seen a non CRT tv that produced better visuals at near the price (or better visuals in the first place). this sucks.
i dealt with this with my 360. but really- i didn't care with the 360. i never expected much out of it. 

I'm pissed the Bourne Ultimatum isnt on bluray....

On a side note, the Timeshift multiplayer demo sucks. Its like a halo ripoff with horrible hitching graphics, jerky movements and lame ass weapons and powerups. I hope UT3 is good... 

Same here. But we are getting the Matrix Trilogy this month, at least according to the buzz. 

anyone get the orange box or UT3 yet? 

im ready to hear how awesome UT3 is- but either way- I am getting it in the next week.
winter vacation FTW