PS3 Without HDMI

By Sam Barron

Humphrey Cheung of tgdaily.com, claims that Sony was not able to run the PS3 through HDMI at 1080p resolution at the GDC

Last week Sony president Ken kutaragi explained that the PS3 delay was due to problems with the finalization of the next-gen Blu-ray discs. Earlier today we reported that the delay might also be the result of developers not getting all the needed development tools in a timely fashion. Now, there may be even another reason for the delay.

Humphrey Cheung of tgdaily.com, claims that Sony was not able to run the console through HDMI at 1080p resolution at the recent GDC.

From the article:

Of course, we were interested in why Sony did not run the units with HDMI. There may be an obvious explanation, but we received some surprising answers from Sony's staff. First, we were told that it isn't easy to get a hold of HDMI-equipped TVs. We found this to be very strange, because after all we were at the Sony booth and all the television sets had HDMI inputs. On the second try, we were told that the reason for not using HDMI was that Sony did not have any HDMI cables and that "they are difficult to find". Matt Butrovich, a former intern with Tom's Hardware and who walked the show floor with us, offered the staff to use one of the HDMI cables he actually had in his car and connect the PS3 with the TVs. Sony officials turned down the offer and we were left without seeing the demos in HD.

Source tgdaily.com