Get any cheap HDMI cable you can come across. Just remember to check the build quality first. Don't get sucked into the marketing gimmick regarding Monster Cables and their overpriced products.

All of the cables come from the same country anyway - China. Gold Plated connectors won't do a jack when it comes to Digital cables like HDMI/DVI.

Unless you're paying a premium to get the latest cables (HDMI 1.4a) or you're planning to drag the cable over 30 meters or more, it's not a good idea to spend few hundred on the cable.

No, HDMI is essentially DVI-D with Audio passthrough. Both of them are digital connections so there will be no image degrading of any kind.

If you're willing to shell out for HDFury then I suggest you just get a new monitor. The cost is around the same for a 24inch monitor that is HDCP compliant and probably come with a HDMI port anyway.

Wrong. A monitor which has DVI can be used as well. Provided that it comes with HDCP not HDMI.

Hmm I don't think the alphabets are the revisions. If it's a new revision (changes to the hardware internally) I would think they'll relabel it as CECH 21 and onwards.

It's normal when it takes a couple of seconds to sync via Bluetooth. However it syncs almost instantly via USB.

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Added on April 12, 2010, 2:39 pmGreen indicator light will not light up when you're syncing the controller to the console.

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Game Installs are game dependent. Some games have mandatory install, some have optional install and some have no installs at all.

Try on a DVD player. Chances are, those are not BR discs but rather DVD9 discs.

I have a SG set. But I live in JB so there's no worries about warranty problems since SG is just over a bridge lol.

Nope, he ain't kidding, GoW 3's GFX are definitely better than FFXIII's, aside from the CGI scenes.

I would say the in-game graphics are based on the developers skill instead. If they can optimise it properly for the hardware itself, it will run good.

In any case, GoW 3 is developed by Sony's own studio and FFXIII is developed by SE, who is a third party dev. So there might be some differences in developer coding skills there. Also, the Crystal Tools engine isn't a PS3 platform engine only, therefore there might be some optimisation problems due to it being a multi-platform engine.

Bear in mind the game itself is only around 8GB (FFXIII), so it's not a problem with the DVD count, they could even spare another DVD to make it 4 DVDs if they could optimise the graphics for in-game further if they wanted. But I suppose time wasn't a there for them to do it. Since the X360 version lacks some self shadows on the characters compared to the PS3 version.

Go into Display Settings and uncheck 720P and 1080i. Let's see whether your display manages to get 1080P or not but still it'll still be upscaled from the PS3.

The PS3 has only one GPU, which is the RSX made by nVidia. Originally the RSX isn't suppose to exist either. Sony wanted the CELL to be the GPU but some problems happened and Sony went to nVidia to have a GPU tailored for the PS3.

The correct statement would be that, developers have not mastered how to code for the CELL yet. The 6 SPUs available will be very powerful for the ones who can utilise it properly.

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Added on April 14, 2010, 8:13 pmHad no idea PS3 does not upscale games. I know for a fact that the display does upscale though.

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Yeah I saw the comparisons, the CGI scenes are well... urgh lol.

Yeap, BD Movies are 1080P. There are games that are in native 1080P but not many, the only one I know of is GT5. But it's not fully 1920x1080 either.



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It's not easy to have a game running @ 1080P without performance issues.

Yeap, one of the reasons is this. Why 1080P when you can have better performance + graphics @ 720P? But sadly this isn't the case for games in the current generation. We still have a lot of games that struggle running @ 1280x720 and are forced to be displayed below 720P.

Yeah, 720P for games should be attainable. It's the coding that's the problem. Looking at SO4 I want to cry seriously lol. They could have ported the game in a better way. It's either down to coders or the company's board itself. Profit = priority and the like.

Uh, that's not what I see as optimising. That's because when you hit the PS button the whole game is paused/stopped and then resumed when you hit it again.

Most games have the game running in the background while you navigate the XMB.

I see, what's the FW on your PS3 at the moment? Might be a controller or console issue. Have you tried with other controllers? (if you have spares of course).

It depends on what kind of content you are downloading. If it's a Game Update, then no you cannot do Background Downloading. However if it's anything from PSN, Game Demos or something then yes you can download in the background. It's very noticeable which ones you can background download and which ones you can't.

However, bear in mind that the PS3 has a system implemented where you play online games, for example Fat Princess or WKC, your downloads in the background will be automatically set into Pending and will only resume when you're not in Online mode in the game.