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Zack Gibbs · 01-05-2008, 01:27 PM

I accidentally turned Patrick Sun's Blu-ray player prices thread into a PS3 discussion because of this, lol. (sorry, I didn't mean to really)

So many people seemingly can't get past it being able to play games, and that's just ludicrous. This isn't the poor DVD playback of the ps2 and Xbox, PS3 was designed from the ground up to play back Blu-ray flawlessly, to be a complete multimedia powerhouse.

Not mentioned so far is that it comes with built in wireless networking. How many times have we heard people complain they don't have an ethernet cable going to their HT system? With the PS3 you don't need one. With that connection you get free access to the playstation network which is lite but still fun. You can easily download the latest movie trailers and HD blu-ray trailers to the hard disk, very cool and home theater centric.

The PS3 can also play tons of media thrown at it. It has excellent DVD upscaling, can play raw Divx/Xvid/h.263 videos. It can stream video and music wirelessly from your home computer. The PS3 helps cure cancer (not a joke) and you can browse the internet if you want.

And home theater enthusiasts are in the unique, once in a life time chance to get all this, with no drawback what-so-ever, for the amazing price of $400. Not because Sony is trying to sell it to you as a media devise, but because they're trying to sell it to the gamers and are doing it at a HUGE loss. If this thing didn't play video games...it would cost twice as much.

Oh, but it does play video games as well, so I'll pass?

Edit: Norman currently all PS3's can output via HDMI/Component/on down the list. Whatever you need.

01-05-2008, 01:27 PM	#12 of 639
Zack Gibbs Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Local Time: 04:16 AM Local Date: 10-12-2008 Posts: 964	Re: New to Blu? Buy a PS3: the most featured BD hardware available... I accidentally turned Patrick Sun's Blu-ray player prices thread into a PS3 discussion because of this, lol. (sorry, I didn't mean to really) So many people seemingly can't get past it being able to play games, and that's just ludicrous. This isn't the poor DVD playback of the ps2 and Xbox, PS3 was designed from the ground up to play back Blu-ray flawlessly, to be a complete multimedia powerhouse. Not mentioned so far is that it comes with built in wireless networking. How many times have we heard people complain they don't have an ethernet cable going to their HT system? With the PS3 you don't need one. With that connection you get free access to the playstation network which is lite but still fun. You can easily download the latest movie trailers and HD blu-ray trailers to the hard disk, very cool and home theater centric. The PS3 can also play tons of media thrown at it. It has excellent DVD upscaling, can play raw Divx/Xvid/h.263 videos. It can stream video and music wirelessly from your home computer. The PS3 helps cure cancer (not a joke) and you can browse the internet if you want. And home theater enthusiasts are in the unique, once in a life time chance to get all this, with no drawback what-so-ever, for the amazing price of $400. Not because Sony is trying to sell it to you as a media devise, but because they're trying to sell it to the gamers and are doing it at a HUGE loss. If this thing didn't play video games...it would cost twice as much. Oh, but it does play video games as well, so I'll pass? Edit: Norman currently all PS3's can output via HDMI/Component/on down the list. Whatever you need.