PS3 as a blu ray player.

If you get a PS3 pay the extra for the remote. GAmes apart it makes using the other functions much better and you don't have to have a controller by your aide when watching TV.

I want a PlayTV now. It looks great.
 
Freeview player/recorded for PS3. I have it, its excellent.
 
redhoop said:
Hmmm. This is making me wonder if there is problem with ours. The fan is not on continuously but when it kicks in it is very noticeable and can stay on for 5 minutes. It better not be getting ready to die before Xmas and the new round of blu-ray shaped pressies.
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The fan on mine (2 and a half years old) goes berserk in the summer if the air conditioning isn't on. It got to the point where even with the aircon on, it was always at full speed. A good clean sorted that though. Still went berserk with the aircon off though (35+ degrees it is in the summer though). Now it's only around 24 degrees in the middle of the day however you never hear it even with the aircon off. Slim models should be much better even though they've packed it all in an even tighter space and removed a lot of the vents. At least with the slim model it's actually easy to get at the fan.
 
WeasteDevil said:
The fan on mine (2 and a half years old) goes berserk in the summer if the air conditioning isn't on. It got to the point where even with the aircon on, it was always at full speed. A good clean sorted that though. Still went berserk with the aircon off though (35+ degrees it is in the summer though). Now it's only around 24 degrees in the middle of the day however you never hear it even with the aircon off. Slim models should be much better even though they've packed it all in an even tighter space and removed a lot of the vents. At least with the slim model it's actually easy to get at the fan.
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Shhhhhhhhh. Don't mention the slim model...other half might hear you. He needs to be cleaning the fan out - not online with the credit card!
 
The PS3 gives really good head unlike standalone BR players.

Probably.
 
A newbie (Crono) wanted me to post this in here so here it is.

Out of the box, in my opinion the PS3 is unrivalled in terms of what it gives you out of the box as a single device. Even if you don't play any games, you can use it as a media server and player to play the large majority of video files out there in one way or another. I use my system for this task, most of the time. I've got a decently sizeable Blu-ray collection, but for those movies which I don't want to buy but watch anyway, you can download an encoded rip of about 2-4GB in HD. You can play that off the PS3's HDD, an external HDD or (the easiest way) play it off your computer using media server software. If you get a standalone BR player, you'd have to buy another device to get this media player functionality.

As a Blu-ray player, I think AVForums review of it speaks for itself, which was already posted in that thread. HomeTheaterMag did a review of it, and even though it's about a year old (and so doesn't present all of the PS3's capabilities properly) we can at least see what they had to say about the IQ.

Performance
The PlayStation 3’s 1080p output with Blu-ray Disc is essentially perfect according to the test patterns at my disposal, right out to the very limits of the format. One-pixel-on/-off luma and chroma bursts at 1080p show such perfect resolution that it is far more likely to be compromised by the display it’s connected to.

Early on, the PS3’s video output with Blu-ray Discs sometimes looked a smidge less sharp than the best standalone players. This gap was always small, but it has gotten even smaller over these many months and firmware updates. The PS3’s image is incredibly sharp, detailed, dimensional, and colorful, especially at 1080p/24, which is how I’ve been watching it for months. It’s good enough to make me wonder whether something that appears sharper might be doctored in some way. The best Blu-ray Discs are just mind-blowing on the PS3.

As far as I can tell, the 1080p/60 output here converts 1080p/24 native Blu-ray material directly to 1080p/60 without interlacing in between. I looked at challenging program material like the Vatican sequence in chapter 7 of Mission: Impossible III, and also at 1080p/24-encoded test clips. The tests I used have tripped up the 1080p/60 output of other players, revealing the apparent 1080i step. The PS3 passed.

Playback
When it comes to Blu-ray playback, ergonomics, and speed, the PS3 is a next-gen device, while most of the standalones are circa-1983 Atari in comparison. While the standalones are still strangled by startup times that last minutes on many Blu-ray Discs, the PS3 can start up and play anything in 30 to 40 seconds at most. On top of that, when you press a button on the remote, something happens. Immediately. You don’t have to hit it again wondering if it’s actually going to do something, as you do with so many of the standalone players.

But more importantly to me, in the year I’ve had the PS3 in my system, I’ve yet to be affected by a disc that won’t play back, or one that hiccups during playback...
Many standalones have come in here and have gone, unforgiven after such an episode. I want DTS-HD MA, but not badly enough to give up the reliability of the PS3. I’m willing to wait. - [DTS-HD MA support arrived a while ago.]

Some enthusiasts balk at putting a game console in their home theater system. I pity them the sacrifices they’ll have to make to stick to that. For those with HDMI switching, the PS3 involves far fewer compromises compared with the standalones, most of which are “way back machines” in comparison. Simply put, the PS3 costs less and does more, and does it better.

The PS3 remains my first choice in a Blu-ray Disc player, and by a wider margin than ever, more than a year after its introduction. Not bad for a Blu-ray player whose day job is being a game console.

Highlights
Standard setting speed and reliability with Blu-ray playback
Outstanding pure picture performance with Blu-ray Discs
Very respectable upconverting DVD performance
Wi-Fi Internet for Web interactivity and system updates
Loaded for interactivity; meets Bonus View and BD-Live specs
Lacks bitstream output for TrueHD and DTS-HD MA - [The PS3 Slim now bitstreams]
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One of the guys at AVS Forum has conducted tests regarding picture quality with 22 Blu-ray players.

"It's my opinion that most players put out very similar images with native resolutions of 1080p and 24fps cadence; the biggest variability centers around dvd upscaling."
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You can read the thread here, it's too long to post. 4 players out of 22 were ranked higher than the PS3, but all seem to be a lot more expensive.
 
Interesting. My only gripe is that it's not got an analogue output and my amp is having problems with my optical leads for some gay reason.
 
I'm asking for blu ray advice. I went into Richer Sounds today and they told me to wait until January because prices will drop big time.

Have a pint on me, though.
 
No Spoony, you are fishing for entertainment. You do not have an XB360, you do not have the fancy TV, you do not have a receiver that only accepts analogue, you just have an Internet connection. People give you advice and then you argue against it, meaning that you should in theory have the nouse to make the decision for yourself without asking RedCafe. However, you in your stupidity decide to ask RedCafe, I don't care how many weights that you can push, if I ever met you I'd hope that I had a rather large steel bar in my back pocket to twat you over the head with.
 
Why don't you just trade in your 360 and get a PS3, it will cater for all your need, will be easier on the pocket and is minimalistic.

Simples.
 
Spoony is on the windup now isn't? I think most people have gave their opinions and he's just hell bent on not listening but still saying he needs help deciding.

Basically, get anything other than the PS3 for Blu-Ray's Spoony, its fecking shit to be honest. Half the time it looks like watching a YouTube video.

Hopefully this will help you in your decision.
 
I'm not on a wind up.

Yes, the greatest wind up of all time - let's get them to think I'm buying a blu ray player. That'll show'em.
 
If you're not I'm not sure anyone help with your decision Spoony. I mean quite a few people have given their opinions now.
 
Feck it, they are all pretty much obsolete now anyways. 3-D Ready TV's are avilable and the 3-D DVD players are on the way now too
 
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