What's obtuse and ridiculous is your analogy and your attempt at being clever.
This is one disc with a PiP in the options which allows you to "guess what?" watch the movie with PiP. As I said before, it was in movies prior to the 1.1 profile and it's indisputable.
In-game XMB is supported in the FW. It has been for a few revisions (unsure how long). However, it isn't native underlying in the actual XMB. Games that wish to allow In-game XMB have to write the code to hook into the XMB. This requires more work from the developers and uses some additional RAM (unsure of how much). So these images are not reproduced XMB, they *are* XMB, but again it's the developer's choice to include it or not.
Space issues again is irrelevant to viewing picture in picture and given that you aren't recording to your store bought BD disks, you aren't losing anything.
I am not arguing that BD initial PiP abilities were better than HD DVD's, simply that the ability existed and was implemented). It's a factual error that I am correcting. We can argue technology til the cows come home, but ultimately, those 0.01% of viewers that care about PiP don't care about how it's implemented as long as they can view it.
To the end user it doesn't matter how it's implemented. To the end user, they receive a PiP experience so I maintain that it's implementation is irrelevant IMO
1) BD has had PiP since day 1. It is immplemented in a non BD-J method. To verify, go look at The Descent. Try to do some research before stating erroneous information.
2) It's PiP! Give me a break. It's a novelty, no more. Who the hell cares about that ability? 0.01% of movie viewers?
First Blu-ray Disc with PiP profile 1.1 announced -- players please?
Dec 7th 2007 2:39PM (Engadget)What's obtuse and ridiculous is your analogy and your attempt at being clever.
This is one disc with a PiP in the options which allows you to "guess what?" watch the movie with PiP. As I said before, it was in movies prior to the 1.1 profile and it's indisputable.
XMB who? Custom soundtracks, friend lists spotted in PS3 games
Dec 7th 2007 1:45PM (Joystiq)First Blu-ray Disc with PiP profile 1.1 announced -- players please?
Dec 7th 2007 9:10AM (Engadget)I am not arguing that BD initial PiP abilities were better than HD DVD's, simply that the ability existed and was implemented). It's a factual error that I am correcting. We can argue technology til the cows come home, but ultimately, those 0.01% of viewers that care about PiP don't care about how it's implemented as long as they can view it.
First Blu-ray Disc with PiP profile 1.1 announced -- players please?
Dec 7th 2007 8:55AM (Engadget)First Blu-ray Disc with PiP profile 1.1 announced -- players please?
Dec 7th 2007 8:21AM (Engadget)1) BD has had PiP since day 1. It is immplemented in a non BD-J method. To verify, go look at The Descent. Try to do some research before stating erroneous information.
2) It's PiP! Give me a break. It's a novelty, no more. Who the hell cares about that ability? 0.01% of movie viewers?
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