Sony held is much anticipated press conference at E3 The big game show that opened Yesterday in Los Angeles. With a November 17 release date, and TWO configurations one with the 350 stl for the stripped down 20 gig version, and 425 stl for the 60 gig version it is interesting that all the official hype really does not feature the BLU RAY drive.
BIG POINT TO NOTE: the 20 gig version does NOT have hdmi? Blu Ray drive and NO HDMI ??????? does this really make sense? also there is no Wi FI on the 20 version, and NONE of the models have the 8 analog channels of audio output?????
http://www.gamespot.com/e3/e3blog.html?topic_id=24598236
you would have thought there would have been demo of the hd video content, the 1080p for video etc. If we did not know better we would almost have thought that the drive was an option????? the careful wording of Supports BD in stead of includes a BD..... Might just be nothing, but with all the hype these days certainly seems curious as to why they would not highlight it
Sharyn