This is progress?
Months and months ago, I went into a CocoNuts to [re-]buy a copy of Alice Deejay's Who Needs Guitars Anyway?. While I was there, I happened to notice that they were selling Sony's component video cable for the PS2 for $25.
Yesterday, I went back to this same store which is now an F.Y.E. (I was grabbing a burrito for dinner from the Baja Fresh located next door), and found out they stock Sony's component video cable for the PS3 (but also backwards-compatible with the PS2) for $20.
So I guess my question is this. Did they drop the price because the component video cable was the best option (so far as video quality goes) for the PS2, but that is no longer the case with the PS3 where HDMI is now top dog? Or was it some other reason?
The really sad thing about this is that I don't know of very many PS2 games that even take advantage of the component cable. I mean, you'd get better color accuracy no matter what game you played. (Sort of like when I replaced the composite cables on my Dreamcast with s-video ones.) But the only game I know of off-hand that uses the 1080i capability of the component cables is GT4. What am I missing?
Yesterday, I went back to this same store which is now an F.Y.E. (I was grabbing a burrito for dinner from the Baja Fresh located next door), and found out they stock Sony's component video cable for the PS3 (but also backwards-compatible with the PS2) for $20.
So I guess my question is this. Did they drop the price because the component video cable was the best option (so far as video quality goes) for the PS2, but that is no longer the case with the PS3 where HDMI is now top dog? Or was it some other reason?
The really sad thing about this is that I don't know of very many PS2 games that even take advantage of the component cable. I mean, you'd get better color accuracy no matter what game you played. (Sort of like when I replaced the composite cables on my Dreamcast with s-video ones.) But the only game I know of off-hand that uses the 1080i capability of the component cables is GT4. What am I missing?