[ydl-gen] No video hardware acceleration on PS3

[Brian Wood]

On Nov 14, 2006, at 8:29 AM, Derick Centeno wrote:

>   Norberto Quintanar wrote:
>> http://www.apple.com/macmini/
>> --- Luke Scharf <lscharf at vt.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> If I were to buy a PS3 for my home, it would need a
>>> fully-functional and
>>> accelerated X-server.  But, at the $600 price-point in my living
>>> room,
>>> it's really competing with the Mac Mini.  :-)
>>>
> Individuals interpret value v. price very differently.  These are not
> the same, nor are they reasoned by individuals in similar ways at all.
> One approach in examining what value, if any, exists along with the
> price (whether it be the PS3 or other computer) is to compare computer
> processing performance of Cell v Intel, in this case a Mac mini -  
> since
> they are offered at about the same price.  One could also take the  
> time
> to compare other Intel computers selling for the same price.

Another point is that if you have any interest at all in a Blu-Ray  
player, you can't touch the player alone for less than half-again the  
price of the PS-3.

Of course Blu-Ray/HDDVD players may well be selling for $20 next  
month :-)

It's like getting the Blu-Ray player for 40% off and getting a Cel- 
based computer thrown in for free.

Some folks think that Sony is using the PS-3 to get a leg up in the  
HD format wars, and that may well have some truth to it, but if I can  
benefit from the subsidized price to run Linux at great speed, with a  
BR player to boot, it's kind of hard to resist.