Guest jonlee Posted April 29, 2007 Posted April 29, 2007 After much reading in this forum, thinking of getting a PS3 as a BR player. The RRP is $799. Any bro knows any shop that sells less than this? For a confirmation, the local PS3 can play BR disc from HK and US, correct? Tks.
desray Posted April 29, 2007 Posted April 29, 2007 That's the standard pricing you will get...everywhere I ask...same quotation. :) Unless you can get a 2nd hand set?
tsammyc Posted April 29, 2007 Posted April 29, 2007 Yes, no problem with Blu-Rays imported from U.S. e.g., Amazon.com
darthmax Posted April 29, 2007 Posted April 29, 2007 http://cgi.ebay.com.sg/NEW-SONY-PLAYSTATION-3-PS3-60GB-CONSOLE-679-LIMITED_W0QQitemZ270112934912QQihZ017QQcategoryZ11321QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Is it too good to be true? ??? 60GB at $679!!!
htfreak Posted April 29, 2007 Posted April 29, 2007 Hmm, they also have the 20GB going for $589. Quite a good deal provided these sets also sport the universal power supplies.
HomeMovie Posted April 30, 2007 Posted April 30, 2007 :o very attractive price indeed. But when I see the seller ratings, is full of clones. Just be more careful if buying. :-X
JT Posted April 30, 2007 Posted April 30, 2007 http://cgi.ebay.com.sg/NEW-SONY-PLAYSTATION-3-PS3-60GB-CONSOLE-679-LIMITED_W0QQitemZ270112934912QQihZ017QQcategoryZ11321QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Is it too good to be true? ??? 60GB at $679!!! I already spoke to the seller. There's no warranty provided.
lustforlife Posted April 30, 2007 Posted April 30, 2007 usually sets from the US does not have warranty :)
htfreak Posted April 30, 2007 Posted April 30, 2007 These are all Japan sets and not US sets. As they say, caveat emptor. Make sure to test and test and test and test and test and test and test and test and test and test and test till satisfied
kmolth Posted April 30, 2007 Posted April 30, 2007 I got mine recently from Plaza Singapura..... using Master card $799.00....think its good price since they absorded the credit card charges. :)
stephensim Posted April 30, 2007 Posted April 30, 2007 what are the concerns between local and Japanese/US sets beside the warranty part? Thought both Japanese and US sets are more or less the same? As far as I know the voltage rating is 100-220V for the Japanese sets too... These are all Japan sets and not US sets. As they say, caveat emptor. Make sure to test and test and test and test and test and test and test and test and test and test and test till satisfied
kickers Posted April 30, 2007 Posted April 30, 2007 try funz at amk hub! http://www.funzcentre.com/ known for gd service. look for chris.
sunzisky Posted April 30, 2007 Posted April 30, 2007 what are the concerns between local and Japanese/US sets beside the warranty part? Thought both Japanese and US sets are more or less the same? As far as I know the voltage rating is 100-220V for the Japanese sets too... Local set---dvd code 3,game can see blood,S$799 USA set---dvd code 1,game can see blood,S$1400 Japan set----dvd code 2,game cant see blood,S$1100 The voltage is universal for all ps3 sets according to the game shop i brought mine
stephensim Posted May 1, 2007 Posted May 1, 2007 thks for the info, but pardon my ignorance, what does it mean by "game can/cant see blood"? :P i thought we are all in the same region code for the ps3 games? does the dvd codes u mentioned is only specifically to dvd movie disks or games as well? Local set---dvd code 3,game can see blood,S$799 USA set---dvd code 1,game can see blood,S$1400 Japan set----dvd code 2,game cant see blood,S$1100 The voltage is universal for all ps3 sets according to the game shop i brought mine
sunzisky Posted May 1, 2007 Posted May 1, 2007 What i mean is different region ps3 set would censor the games. From http://consoul.blogspot.com/ "This raises an interesting 'feature' of PS3's region coding that seems to have been kept quiet. I bought a Japanese copy of the critically acclaimed Resistance: Fall of Man at launch, with my Japanese PS3. Packaging aside, the Japanese Resistance and the US Resistance are feature identical. The discs both contain all languages and all game content. So I was somewhat surprised when I read impressions from US gamers discussing the game's "hero moments" and the way the blood splatters on environmental objects. Blood? I completed the game and never saw a drop. Hero moments? These are sequences where you have the opportunity to save handy allies from a grisly death, not that I'd encountered any such sequences in the game. Something tricky was going on. My experience of Resistance had been censored, completely unbeknownst to me. The once liberal Japanese have apparently become conservative regarding graphic depictions of violence recently. Resident Evil 4 (on GC and PS2) is a good example of this. It featured chainsaw decapitations and other explicit death scenes that were cut from the Japanese release, but remained elsewhere in the world. Resistance has apparently been adjusted to appease the censors too, but the method has changed. No content has been cut from the Japanese release. If you take my Japanese copy of Resistance and start playing it on a US PS3, you'll find it plays completely uncut, with all blood splattering and hero moments intact. Conversely, start playing a US copy of Resistance on a Japanese PS3 and the blood and hero moments are gone. The games have not been cut. The PS3 console itself is determining what gets cut. A Japanese PS3 will censor games to meet the Japanese rating. It makes no difference if you're signed on under a US profile, or playing a game you bought in the US or anywhere else. No doubt the US and forthcoming Euro/PAL PS3s will work the same way. Game content will be altered/cut on-the-fly to meet the ratings requirements of the region that machine was intended for. It certainly will be interesting to see how different PS3s handle a game like Grand Theft Auto 4. This revelation probably comes as a bit of a kick in the teeth to people who've imported a Japanese PS3. The prospect of playing a needlessly censored version of Resident Evil 5 is somewhat depressing. Fear not! You shall go to the ball! I'm going to tell you how to get around this awful bit of region coding. The trick is all in the save file. When you boot up a game for the first time, your PS3 creates a save file in a folder on the hard drive for whichever user account is logged on. It's then that the PS3 checks the hardware region coding and decides whether it will be censoring the game or not. It never performs this check again. So the key to getting around the censoring is getting your hands on another save file that was created on a PS3 from an uncensored region. Here's the catch - you can't just get a save file created using the US release of a game on a US PS3 and expect it to work with a Japanese game. The disc IDs are different, so the game will refuse to load the save data. What you'll need to do is have someone with a US (or other region) PS3 boot up the Japanese game disc. They don't even have to start a new game. Just booting up the disc will create a save file that indicates the game is being used on US hardware. Take a copy of that save file and import it into your Japanese PS3. Bingo. You can now start a new game with all features uncensored. I'm playing Resistance again, on hard, with all blood and hero moments unlocked."
sunzisky Posted May 1, 2007 Posted May 1, 2007 does the dvd codes u mentioned is only specifically to dvd movie disks or games as well? Region lock will apply on dvds movies and ps2 games,but not ps3 games. Eg. u wont be able to play ps2 UC games on local ps3 set.
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