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playstation 3 as a blu ray player - any good?
muesli:
yay thanks for the help so far! :)
looks like it is a good blu ray player after all - @ kurandoinu: do you know what your bf doesn't like about it..? is it something reasonable? ;D
how about the controls? is it ok to control the player with the game pads?
also how about burned dvds..? ::) can they be played?
oh and can i plug in my external hard drive to play films over the ps?
thanks *tired*
kurandoinu:
He says as its not just a blu ray player its not got the handling that a full one will have. I don't know, I watch DVDs on my monitor for the most part so doesn't matter much to me.
He's a video and sound boff though, so probably nothing too important
Tatsujin:
--- Quote from: muesli on September 24, 2009, 08:47:44 PM ---yay thanks for the help so far! :)
looks like it is a good blu ray player after all - @ kurandoinu: do you know what your bf doesn't like about it..? is it something reasonable? ;D
how about the controls? is it ok to control the player with the game pads?
also how about burned dvds..? ::) can they be played?
oh and can i plug in my external hard drive to play films over the ps?
thanks *tired*
--- End quote ---
Controls are easy. I don't recommend getting that PS3 remote controller. Not blue tooth and it's a piece of junk. Too many buttons. The DS3 Controller will be good enough.
PS3 doesn't burn anything for CDs, DVDs or Blu-rays.
You can plug in your external HDD and play films on there. PS3 does require some specific format (FAT32 was it? Or NTSF? I can't remember). Tho' the best thing to do is just get a DVI to HDMI cable and hook it up from your computer to your HDTV. Easier to play videos from your computer.
der richter:
ntfs is microsoft only and no one can license it. so no. ps3 only read/writes fat32 formated hds.
in some earlier firmwares it could read burned s-vcd/vcds but not anymore.
but you could just copy h264 coded mp4 files to a memory stick (or what else) and play it. mkv (yet) aren't supported.
or you could just stream every media from your pc with TVersity for example.
video codecs which are supported are:
MPEG-1
AVI
MPEG-2 (PS,TS)
H.264/MPEG-4 AVC
Motion JPEG
partially DivX und Xvid (FW 2.10)
partially WMV (FW 2.10)
VC-1 (FW 2.10)
one big pro of the ps3 is that it is updatable. it is easy to add new feature like in the past BD-Live (bd-profile 2.0)(ps3 was the first player which supported bd-live). there is definitely more to come.
fohfoh:
The older 65nm should be cheaper than the slim if you REALLY REALLY need to install linux on it for whatever reason.
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