I'll give you the DTS encoding for the old receivers (PS3 does Dolby Digital), but as far as I can tell, this player is the same price as the PS3 40gb (and you can get the PS3 40gb for $299 if you try hard enough...). Also, my PS3's fans never come on during a Blu-Ray movie, my PS3 works with my universal remote thanks to a $9.99 IR remote and receiver (admittedly, no power button or slow-mo), and uncompressed PCM letting the PS3 do the codec decompression should be every bit as good as bitstreaming the compressed codecs to the receiver. I am not saying this is not a nice player, but I would still buy the PS3 instead of the standalone player since it has the additional gaming functionality, potential media center features, and it has been upgradable to new Blu-Ray profiles pretty regularly vs. the spotty standalone profile support. Now, when the standalone players are $150 vs. a $299 PS3, then I can see buying a standalone player if one doesn't need the additional features.
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I'll give you the DTS encoding for the old receivers (PS3 does Dolby Digital), but as far as I can tell, this player is the same price as the PS3 40gb (and you can get the PS3 40gb for $299 if you try hard enough...). Also, my PS3's fans never come on during a Blu-Ray movie, my PS3 works with my universal remote thanks to a $9.99 IR remote and receiver (admittedly, no power button or slow-mo), and uncompressed PCM letting the PS3 do the codec decompression should be every bit as good as bitstreaming the compressed codecs to the receiver. I am not saying this is not a nice player, but I would still buy the PS3 instead of the standalone player since it has the additional gaming functionality, potential media center features, and it has been upgradable to new Blu-Ray profiles pretty regularly vs. the spotty standalone profile support. Now, when the standalone players are $150 vs. a $299 PS3, then I can see buying a standalone player if one doesn't need the additional features.