[QUOTE="magus-21"][QUOTE="pjoasil"][QUOTE="The_Rick_14"]Alright obviously clarity is needed. What the new PS3 will ship with is simply the lack of the Emotion Chip to provide BC. This is because the chip cannot upscale ps2 games. Instead, they are providing BC through emulation like the 360. This allows upscaling but unfortunately emulators need to be created for each ps2 game (I'm pretty sure on this part). So, what this means is that the people with the launch ps3s will be able to use emulation if its provided in a firmware update...and the only real question is whether or not an option will be in place to use either emulation or the emotion chip until all games are BC. I doubt that though.pjoasil
No, having the emotion chip doesn't prevent upscaling. The reason for the removal of the emotion chip is to reduce costs. When version 1.6 is released it won't matter whether you have and old PS3 or a PS3 lacking an emotion chip. Both versions should be able to upscale DVDs/PS1/PS2 games via software update. If you don't believe me XBox 360 sent an update in december 2006 to upscale its games to 1080p (eg. Lost Planet, Sonic, Virtua tennis 3, all support 1080p) Keep in mine though that upscaling discs to HD which aren't HD-DVDs or Blue-rays aren't true HD anyway. Because to have true HD, the disc has the be HD, the laser reading the disc has to be HD, the TV has to be HD, and the wire connecting the drive to the TV has to be HD. If you don't have all of these things then you don't have true HD.
He didn't say the EE+GS chip *prevented* upscaling, he said it was *incapable* of upscaling. Games that are run through the EE+GS always come through in native 480i/480p. A PS3 with a EE+GS chip can still upscale, but only if it *doesn't* use the EE+GS chip to run PS2/PS1 games. BTW, the 360 has a built-in scaler between the Xenos and the analog output, which is why it is capable of scaling any source to any resolution (except DVDs, since DVD upscaling isn't allowed over component). The PS3 scaler is incomplete right now (only capable of horizontal scaling).I'm pretty familiar with programming and a couple of if and then statements of programming code will solve the issue of while playing a game whether to enable or disable the chip.
The 360 does have a built in scaler which does make it easiler to upscale. But it is totally not true that DVD upscaling is not allowed through component. There are hundreds of DVD stand alone players which have the feature of upscaling DVDs through component. I have one at home.
It may be an older DVD player then. All new upscaling DVD players in the US are required to only upscale via HDMI. Samsung was even sued by the MPAA because their older DVD players could upscale with a user hack. 
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