All PS3's to have HDMI - Are any produced yet?

"RKRM" <rkrm.RemoveThis@NOSPAMcomcast.net> wrote in message
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> Since they just changed the specs again does this mean they still haven't
> started preducing them?? Slow motion train wreck.

IIRC, we (as media) received test/debug PS2 units in July of 2000. Granted,
the PS2 had already been released in Japan back in April, so we had to wait
three months after that launch, but it was still three months ahead of the
US launch. This time around, we (or rather, my former editors still in the
media) received PC-based dev kits several weeks ago. No one I know has
received an actual production/encased unit yet, with a little less than two
months to go before launch. Media shouldn't have as high a priority as
development, of course, but SCEA will still want magazines to review launch
titles won't they?

I'm sure they made the decision to change the specs re: HDMI some time
before the recent announcement, and changed their manufacturing process
accordingly, but it couldn't have been too long ago. Perhaps they started
making the higher-end model first? In any event, if the failure rate is
anything like the 360 (and with Blu Ray, the rate just might be higher), I'm
starting to wonder how rare the PS3s are going to be.

Train wreck indeed.
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"RKRM" <rkrm.RemoveThis@NOSPAMcomcast.net> wrote in
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> Since they just changed the specs again does this mean they still
> haven't started preducing them?? Slow motion train wreck.
>
>
>

We still haven't gotten a Dev Kit that has it onboard, nor one that puts
out 1080p.
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Android wrote:
> Train wreck indeed.

The "train wreck" produced dozens of operational PS3s at TGS. Just
because Sony isn't giving out production hardware to fifth-tier
partisan blogs doesn't mean the launch is in trouble, it just means
fifth-tier partisan bloggers, podcasters, and rumour sites aren't
important to Sony.
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"GUTB" <GUTB.RemoveThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Android wrote:
>> Train wreck indeed.
>
> The "train wreck" produced dozens of operational PS3s at TGS.

Those were finalized hardware produced at a Sony plant? Don't think so.

Just
> because Sony isn't giving out production hardware to fifth-tier
> partisan blogs doesn't mean the launch is in trouble, it just means
> fifth-tier partisan bloggers, podcasters, and rumour sites aren't
> important to Sony.
>
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RKRM <rkrm.RemoveThis@nospamcomcast.net> wrote:
> Since they just changed the specs again does this mean they still haven't
> started preducing them?? Slow motion train wreck.

I would think that most of the parts, like the case and motherboard, are
identical to both SKUs - the low-end would lack the HDMI port and the case
for the low-end would probably just have a little plastic cover snapped in
its place.

If that's the case, then it shouldn't be a big deal to rework any low-end
pieces so that they include the HDMI port, while changing the low-end
production line(s) to include these changes.

Of course, this assumes they've already started production. I believe
Sony said "end of September" which could mean they'll start in 4 days?
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