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I was laughing at launch of ps3/360...500$+ was their prices if I'm not mistaken.
Was the PS3, and I bought one.. happily as well. Seeing as at the time, a stand alone blu-ray player cost 1,000$, the PS3 was a 400$ mark down, as well as a web browser/mp3 player and video game player all in one, the savings on it were fantastic.

It was 600$ btw, 360 was 400$.
 
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I got a PS3 recently for 180$, good price, came with Uncharted 3 and 4 controllers. Barely used, came with Warranty and manuals and everything. Only a year old, 120GB version.

Been using it to Stream anime and movies straight to my TV rather than hooking my PC up to it or burning them to a DVD. Plus, Blu-rays and whatnot now. Picked up a few PS3 games, a few fun ones. Plus, just so much easier to not have to burn every movie to disc, or anime series.

I just stream a 1080p, FLAC encoded anime straight to my TV and can watch. I give it 10 seconds to buffer and it's all good. Can select subtitles, language, ect. PS3 MEdia Server rocks.

http://www.ps3mediaserver.org/

Seriously, you got a PS3...it rules to use this. It instantly converts everything while you're watching, really fast, and no quality loss if you chose lossless transcoding(need a strong CPU and fast Ethernet cable)

I now watch all my anime on my 50'' Plasma TV, rather than my 24'' Monitor. Nice experience and no hassle at all. Just click, click, and my entire anime & movie library are available.
 
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Sounds awesome! I recently got a Xbox360 Slim 250GB for ยฃ125. I never had a console before so I thought it was time to buy one and all my friends have Xbox. I find that I barely play it though even after buying DBZ Raging Blast 1 & 2 and Forza 4 but I think this is because I have to always switch my HD cable between my PC and the Xbox and the same with my sound system cable. If I had 2 screens maybe I would use it more... Think if I had a 50" I would just straight up hook my PC to it^^
 
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Sounds awesome! I recently got a Xbox360 Slim 250GB for ยฃ125. I never had a console before so I thought it was time to buy one and all my friends have Xbox. I find that I barely play it though even after buying DBZ Raging Blast 1 & 2 and Forza 4 but I think this is because I have to always switch my HD cable between my PC and the Xbox and the same with my sound system cable. If I had 2 screens maybe I would use it more... Think if I had a 50" I would just straight up hook my PC to it^^
Buy another HDMI cable...
 
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Buy another HDMI cable...
Only have 1 monitor....I have to keep unplugging my HD cable from my PC to my Xbox and also I have the AV Cable from the Xbox converted to a 3.5mm entry so I have to keep unplugging my speakers from my PC to my Xbox too. I could get a splitter for the HD cable but sound splitters suck so either way I would still have to crawl under my desk, switch the cables and bang my head on my way out lol
 
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OMFG! They actually went and over-done it! The GTX 690 is out now! YEA YOU READ THAT RIGHT! http://www.evga.com/articles/00679/#GTX690

Apparently it needs PCI Express 3.0 to work! The specs are through the roof!:shocked:
 
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And your games will still play the same way as before. Pointless atm. Unless you use 3D.
 
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Not really.

If you play @ 2560 or a Tri-monitor setup, then dual cards help quite alot. Especially one with this power.

And you may think not alot of people run tri-monitor setups. The numbers may surprise you.

Instead of buying a 30'' monitor, quite a few people opt to buy like 3x 23'' Monitors, remove the bezel and stick them right next to each other and get a giant setup for cheap and play at crazy resolutions like 5760 x 1768.

Not pointless at all. It can run BF3 @ 2560 x 1600 maxed out with 66FPS! That's WITH 4xAA!

I say damned impressive.
 
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So basically only people with special cases. Pointless for the rest of us.
 
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And your games will still play the same way as before. Pointless atm. Unless you use 3D.
Hence why I used the words "over-done it".
 

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