Blu-Ray player only £40 at Asda

.avi files could be any number of different types of video, so there's no one answer to that question, it may play some but not others.

If you have a PS3 why do you need another blu ray player?
 
R_Nick said:
.avi files could be any number of different types of video, so there's no one answer to that question, it may play some but not others.

If you have a PS3 why do you need another blu ray player?
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For the bedroom. I've got a growing collection of Blu-Rays and for £40 this seems a great deal.

As for the AVI files, I use my PS3 to play them and have never had a problem playing any.
 
duffer said:
For the bedroom. I've got a growing collection of Blu-Rays and for £40 this seems a great deal.

As for the AVI files, I use my PS3 to play them and have never had a problem playing any.
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I think the PS3 is better than most. My old man has a Panasonic bluray player and when I plug my HDD into it it only recognises some of the files on there, whereas the PS3 recognises them all.
 
If it plays stuff of your usb it will most definitely play avi files.

PS3 definitely doesn't recognize them all. But my BluRay player, which is my home theater system, is also Sony so it's pretty much the same as the PS3 without the fan noise. You should be alright with most external HDD stuff.
 
R_Nick is right, PS3 will not play all AVI files as and AVI file is simply a container/wrapper (think file structure here not what format the data inside is in), it doesn't specify the codecs underneath. PCs are great in this respect as you just install new codecs/containers or update the codecs/containers, it's easy. Not so with fixed hardware. Even when the codec is known, it doesn't always work. An example would be when you use get_iplayer. It downloads the streams as FLVs and then converts them into MP4 video which the PS3 should be able to handle, and yes, the video is perfect, but the audio is all over the show, if there at all, yet on the PC they play perfectly. What's happening? Well, the audio encoder is obviously not sticking strictly to the standards and the PS3 gets confused, so you have to re-mux the file to create another MP4, and then it works on the PS3.
 
101 said:
I hear PS3 is one of the best blu-ray players out there anyway, no point in switching.
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Considering its age, it's right up there. Over time they've updated it quite easily, even to support the full 3D specification of BD, which hasn't been difficult for Sony to do because it's all done in software, unlike quite a lot of stand-alone BD players which use specialised silicon to do the processing. Cell is just a huge high speed totally programmable parallel DSP that has no problem eating up video and audio (it can decode 8 current HD video streams in realtime, so it's future proof as long as it has the decode software). The downside is that it can only play what Sony wants it to play, so no MKV support for example, which is odd as you see cheap BD players and even TVs supporting that now from USB storage devices. PS3, hell no, Sony don't want you playing with those things.
 
I got a mid range Samsung Blu Ray player 2 years ago and it was awful. I constantly had to update it so it would play new release BLu rays and the loading times were painful

The Ps3 player is amazing compared to it
 
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