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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zappo" data-source="post: 2815585" data-attributes="member: 633">If I have understood the whole next-gen format mess, the downsampling would be to 720p, which is still better than DVD. I'm pretty sure that anything above that would not be visible on a normal TV (and, tbh, I'm not even sure about 720p being noticeably better than DVD on a normal TV).So, for anyone who doesn't own a HDTV, the "cheaper" PS3 is probably going to deliver the best image quality you can see on your TV anyway; and anyone owning a HDTV can probably afford the "costlier" PS3 anyway. It's a ruthless pricing scheme, but a fairly rational one.I find this whole "downsampling unless you buy special hardware" mess to be very irritating TBH.You cannot compare a PC to a console component-by-component. Really. I'm not talking about "ok, the console has a slight edge". A console destroys a PC with similar specs, thanks to tighter integration and more focused developing.If you think I'm using a hyperbole, try comparing the graphic quality of a PS2 with a Pentium II 300 mhz + 48 megs of RAM + Voodoo 1 graphic card (roughly equivalent to PS2's stuff, RAM increased by 50% to account for OS).The comparison is simply meaningless; the kit you described will not even touch a PS3 (or a 360 for that matter), and it still costs more. To get in the same ballpark with a PC, you're looking at getting top-of-the-line hardware and paying upwards of 1000$.</blockquote>