PS3 has a hardware scaler?

[Michael Fortson]

At the time of publication, the reasons why SCEI didn’t give developers access to both horizontal and vertical scaling are still unknown, as are the reasons they didn’t grant developers access to horizontal scaling until now. The video scaler itself remains shrouded in mystery, as strange as it may seem, but at least now we can say with confidence that it does indeed exist.

WTF?!

[Jason Becker]

Why would this surprise anybody. This is the company that gimps the PSP's resolution if your not watching a UMD.

Sony's standard business practice. Create cool hardware then cripple it...genius.

[RickH]

Why would this surprise anybody. This is the company that gimps the PSP's resolution if your not watching a UMD.

And downclocks the processor to save battery life. And then releases a $40 replacement battery with more capacity.

[bad joke]Sony's wife must have to always be on top, since Sony can only fuck up.[/bad joke]

[Moore]

At least it is easy to force it to play video in full res and run at its max clock.