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playstation 3 as a blu ray player - any good?

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muesli:
hi guys,

i want to buy a blu ray player and noticed that the playstation 3 slim is not that much more expensive than a normal (cheap) player (~199€ vs. 299€...).

so i would like to know what you think about the playstation as a blu ray player?
also what are differences to a normal blu ray player? - like what cool things can you do with the playstation (except playing obviously :))? e.g. installing linux and then..?

i know that this is really a newbie question to blu ray players and playstation so i totally appreciate your help!

thank you :)

ant900:
well when it comes to BluRay play back it is just as good, if not better than the average BluRay player.  As for additional functions the ps3 can of course play ps3 games.  In addition to that you can download games and movies from the psn, you can surf the internet, you can use it as a media player (music, pictures, ect..), and you can also connect it to your pc to transfer media to and from it.  However the ps3 slim DOES NOT have the ability to install linux, which sucks but I am sure Sony had a reason.

Tatsujin:

--- Quote from: muesli on September 24, 2009, 07:27:10 PM ---hi guys,

i want to buy a blu ray player and noticed that the playstation 3 slim is not that much more expensive than a normal (cheap) player (~199€ vs. 299€...).

so i would like to know what you think about the playstation as a blu ray player?
also what are differences to a normal blu ray player? - like what cool things can you do with the playstation (except playing obviously :))? e.g. installing linux and then..?

i know that this is really a newbie question to blu ray players and playstation so i totally appreciate your help!

thank you :)

--- End quote ---
Blu-ray, and everything else of entertainment from playing music (very nice features to it), viewing the nice Earth while playing music, Browsing the Internet, pictures, online content (purchase/rent movies, games, etc) and it's free, of course. Reliable, 1.3v HDMI version which Blu-ray supports, ... too many things to list.

And about Linux, just who is going to install Linux on it and what're they going to use it for? ... Entertainment?! ...

vuzedome:

--- Quote from: Tatsujin on September 24, 2009, 08:02:09 PM ---

And about Linux, just who is going to install Linux on it and what're they going to use it for? ... Entertainment?! ...

--- End quote ---

I did, for the fun of it.
But actually there wasn't really any fun, lots of hardware support problems.

kurandoinu:
As far as I can see it makes a pretty good blu ray player.

The boyfriend however thinks its not good enough and wants a new blu ray player

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