PS3 Rally

Mmm, it’s the Easter Weekend and it must feel very relaxing to just lie there on the couch (and hopefully) be lounging around playing the PS3.

I was just playing the PS2 just then, and played a game I remembered was so good gameplay wise and graphically - Burnout.
It was a demo, but nonetheless, great.

Started playing it and well..it was all so fuzzy..the models were all so low detail and such..
Why did this happen? It was on a new HDTV too, not an old CRT display.
As with all 3d games, the better they get, the more worse the old games get. Games we’ve played for years start looking worse than those new high definition games, but we can’t help it-it’s a trick of the mind, I swear.

Now, games on the PS3 should not ‘wither away’ in our minds for a long time now. Why, you ask? With the massive detail aside, you can now use HDMI to make that video and audio clearer and sharper.

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What is HDMI?
HDMI stands for High Definition Multimedia Interface. If you’ve ever bought or owned a console, you should know that whenever you’re hooking it up to the TV there were 3 holes in the TV to plug into. The console would have something which would plug into it’s back, and have 3 cables to plug into the TV. That was the AV (Audio-Visual) input.

HDMI is a new all-digital audio/visual interface capable of transmitting uncompressed streams. You’ve probably played a video file on your computer, and these may have been MPEG video, Quicktime video and even Windows Media video. These are all decoders - they compress the video file to save space but also retain quality. If you uncompressed a video, it could be double, even triple the file size of the compressed video. Maybe even a lot more, if the compressor was very good.

Uncompressed video is usually referred to as raw video, where there is no compression. The image here is usually the best - it has not been altered or tampered with. HDMI is a revolutionary concept designed so that it can transfer uncompressed video without any image loss.

You can see here that with HDMI, all detail can be seen. If used in AV format, or any other format, the video would have some detail blurry, as it would be compressed.

So if your playing games, or watching video, and you think the image quality is really bad, so bad that it’s hurting your eyes, you know what to get

To round it all of here’s a Playstation 3 ad showing it’s ‘Blue Ray Graphics’:

Have a happy Easter weekend, and as always, stay tuned for more Playstation 3 news and information, on your favourite website, www.ps3rally.com!