Buy a Sony HDTV with a Sony Card, get a free Sony PS3

i c what u did there :)

id do that, sell the ps3 pay the bill with that plus whatever else and cancel the card too bad i live nowhere near a sony store

... You're acting on the assumption that you can -sell- a PS3.

Haha, I guess they really are desperate! Seriously though, PS3s are pretty cheap now days. If you look around you could find a brand new one for the 330USD mark.

one that isn't gimped?

If I didn't have both already, I would actually be interested in this deal, except for the fact that the new ones aren't gimped. My main rationalization for getting one was that my PS2 got stolen and it didn't make sense to waste money on a second one now that the backwards compatible PS3 was out. Good thing I got it then, cause since they've only taken features out, which is a shame. I almost decided to wait until I could get a white one (is that ever actually coming out?), but I'm happy I didn't. I like having my fully capable PS3, not the gimped younger sibling that is out now.

The amount of idiots in this world never fail to amaze me.

It's not a free PS3. You are not getting any discount on the TV. Shop around, I'll bet that TV can be found for at least $250 cheaper elsewhere.

Actually I'm not amazed, I know there are at least 11 million idiots out there..

@aristokrat

How the HECK did you get your PS2 stolen?

Someone probably...I dunno, came into his house and stole it?

Slow refresh rate... you know, to match the framerate of the PS3 games.

=)

why am i not suprised, fernando has something bad to say about the PS3 and sony.

Do you have something against Sony TV's now? are they too shiny for you, or wait is it because sony makes great TV's, so you just have to trash them to make yourself feel better?

Seriously stop the trolling.

simmcity:

If by "great" you mean "underperformng" or "overpriced", then yes, you are correct.

Check the AVS forums or talk with a home theatre enthusiast, Sony rarely ranks in the top 3 in ANY TV format (CRT, RPTV, LCD etc.). Their LCOS sets are pretty good, but then again they don't have much competition (just JVC) in that arena, so it's tough to tell whether or not Sony or just the tech behind LCOS deserves the credit there...

Fernando wasn't lying or trolling, just stating the truth.

Sony has brought it all upon themselves with their overhyped, overpriced, underdelivering, non-game playing, online incompetent, protein folding, non-rumble, non-hd-cable bearing, six-axis, 30 FPS, POS3 Blu-Ray player that they must give away now.

Yes, I am a PS3 owner too.

I do think Sony is the world leader in 61" OLED inch-thick displays. Tell me that didn't make all of you jealous, Sony-hater or not.

Well, if it's an XBR, while being overpriced, according to Jd Power and Assoc. has some of the best consumer satisfaction compared to many other brands. The TV should have around a 6 millisecond response time and a 120hz refresh rate. Most people don't realize this but that LCD panel is actually made by a joint factory by Samsung AND Sony. So technically it's a Samsung panel, the same that goes into almost any Samsung TV bigger than 37".


Still a good tv though even if it's a Sony

@ Fernando

I love and support you, in your great efforts towards giving Sony as much shit as you can.

*No sarcasm involved*

You would think after awhile Joystiq would just ban someone who says nothing but negative comments and trolls.

""Buy a Sony..." not "Buy an Sony..." as the word "Sony" neither begins with a vowel or a vowel sound."
Shouldn't that be neither and nor?

Ooh. Spartacus just got learned!

Touche. Though in my defense, I was simply speed typing in the comments section, not submitting a suposedly proof-read blog entry ;-)

Well then Spartacus, you should probably assuming that EVERYONE who makes minor typos and grammatical errors was speed typing. After all, we're all speed typing comments except for the few who actually post blogs on Joystiq

Ackmondual:

My comment WAS pointing out a typo by the author of this blog, not a commenter- so, uh, I agree with you.

Interest rates only come into play if you don't pay the card off every month.

What you can do is if you have the cash for the TV already, get the card, buy the TV, immediately pay it off and then cancel the card after the PS3 shows up, making sure not to use it for anything. If you already have a PS3, sell it, great discount on the TV.

Uh, if you do this, you pay retail. You might as well shop the set you want on-line, and then buy the model PS3 you want with the savings.

Let's say MSRP is $3600, you find it for $2900. Buy the set and a PS3 and a few games or a controller. Don't fall into the debt trap where you buy the TV at 0% and end up paying 30% because the interest rate changed, even though you already made the purchase.

on a lcd?

Don't give me your bullshit, Sony PR man. Obviously HD screen/console manufacturers would rather have us forget the kind of high detail we've been enjoying on simple PC monitors for many years, with their buzzwords. Not gonna happen, though.

not quite the same as widescreen HD: 1280x720 or 1920x1080 but yea you got more than 720 lines of vertical resolution...

Yeah AND that was in 1997, mind you. Let alone anytime past 2000.

BM- That's exactly what I've been saying lately. In fact, a few months ago, I bought a 21" VGA CRT (CRT = No "native resolution" bullshit, and if you already have the space for it, then who gives a crap if it isn't 2" thick) for only $25, and that thing goes all the way up to 1600x1200 (ie, higher than HD) and has ZERO frames of display lag. And ten years ago (TEN!), I bought a 17" version of the same thing for only $200. Want widescreen? Just letterbox it (You know, the same exact thing widescreen owners still have to put up with whenever they have a non-widescreen signal.) Granted those are still smaller than most TVs, but that alone doesn't account for such an enormous price discrepancy.

So yea, 2007, and it's $1000+ for an (only) 1080 set with native resolution crap to deal with (ie, anything lower looks even shitter than it normally would), a few frames of display lag, burn-in (if it's plasma), and HDCP (ie, DRM on the signal itself). I'm not remotely impressed. "But it's trendy and I can hang it on a wall!" Good for you.

21" CRT that does 1600x1200 for $25? That's a pretty good deal you got there. I love CRT monitors but recently switched over to LCD. I just couldn't fit a CRT on the crappy desk in my dorm, so I got a 19" Samsung which I'm actually quite happy with. 2ms response and so far no noticeable input lag as well as decent color accuracy out of the box. On top of the space concerns, I guess I've just been kind of spoiled by playing my 360 on widescreen TVs that I wanted to go widescreen.

CRT is definitely a great display technology though. When I'm at home, the primary TV I game on is an old fashioned CRT RPTV 1080i screen. But it still looks good and there is absolutely NO lag whatsoever even fed with a 480i signal. I tested it using a laptop running a timecode video and the S-Video output using a camera to compare times on the screens (previously having tested with a 480i native CRT as a control).

In my friend's dorm across campus, I brought a 17" CRT from home to keep in his room. We both like playing 360 games and a lot of the kids on his floor LAN, but splitscreen sucks. The 17" CRT has a VGA cable for 360 attached to it and all I have to do is bring my 360 over and plug it in and we get our own screens. Call of Duty 4 still looks great and play just as well as I do on his 32" LCD.

Post of the year, right there. +1

Ah, do you Underpants Gnomes think of other equally lucrative schemes whilst you are in the North Pole helping Santa get things done during the Christmas season?

Would that make you Sony Gnomes?

Your 360 communicated fine to your PC when it had XP :P

Not to say I'm a blind Vista hater, just sayin'

I don't have a 360 yet.

what kind of communication are you looking for? the ps3 can stream media via UPnP if that's what you want. If you're looking for specific video formats, then it's a different story - I think the 360 can stream divx better from brief readings.

If it's a different kind of communication, I'm curious about the capabilities.

The PS3 can do dvix now with the new update.
PS3 works pretty well with streaming media, although it does take a while if you add new pictures or whatever to your computer for the PS3 to add them to it's library.