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PostPosted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 6:41 pm 
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my 7 year old has set his heart on a PS3 for xmas, so after a troll around t'interweb decided on a 160gb consol. trolled around the shops online only to find all sold out only 80gb avaliable ! did find some on amazon for £600, so did a few shops today, game, gamestation, john lewis etc all sold out, popped into my local curry's only to be asked how many do you want, i've got 28 in stock !!

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 Post subject: Re: playstation 3
PostPosted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 6:44 pm 
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I don't see why 160GB would be necessary. 80GB should be sufficient shirley?

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 6:48 pm 
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I've had a 40gb for about 2 years and it's more than sufficient.

Fantastic bit of kit for bluray dvd playback with my home cinema.

It's very easy to swap the internal hard drive if required.

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 6:52 pm 
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its lindsay not shirley, i was told (not really a techie) that the 160gb was the way to go and was only £42 more than the 80gb and came with 4 downloadable games but thanks for the advise, guess i should have asked here first

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 7:00 pm 
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Paul Mabley wrote:
I've had a 40gb for about 2 years and it's more than sufficient.

Fantastic bit of kit for bluray dvd playback with my home cinema.

It's very easy to swap the internal hard drive if required.


We got one for the blu-ray experience too but I've been really impressed with the machine and have probably spend more time gaming than watching vids :oops:

o/t those fooking BDs are £££ :evil: so we normally rent 'em out instead :)


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I agree, I started playing Call of Duty online, very sad.

We rent blurays from tesco off the net, but the machine makes a very good fist of upscaling normal ones too.

Looks fantastic on my projector in 1080p

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 9:45 pm 
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Only play games on PC. Consoles are cheap. (Except 160gb ones :lol: ) But the games are big money. Isn't blueray just a con to get you to rebuy your DVD collection? (Only just got rid of my videos :shock: )

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 10:10 pm 
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J.J. wrote:
Only play games on PC. Consoles are cheap. (Except 160gb ones :lol: ) But the games are big money. Isn't blueray just a con to get you to rebuy your DVD collection? (Only just got rid of my videos :shock: )


blimey i've still got those round black things called records, remember 45s and 33s

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Sonys European site has just reduced the 40 and 80 gb to 250 and 260 respectivly.

I have a 40gb one and serves me well.

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lindsayhbrown wrote:

blimey i've still got those round black things called records, remember 45s and 33s


:lol: Still got the record player. It's plumbed into the PC as well. Lots of great oldies. Not too many cds they cost too much!

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