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It's slimmer, we get it already. ]]>Aug 29th 2009 12:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/Aug 29th 2009 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/Aug 29th 2009 5:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/
I would prefer a proper (and at least 1/3rd cheaper) quality standalone every day of the week
(Amazon USA have the Panasonic 60 @ $200 right now).

PS3 loads faster? Pfffhhhh, a few seconds, so what?

Power reduction?
So what, again?
It's not the big deal some want to make it out to be.
It's still using 3x the watt rating of my standalone when playing blu-rays (75w v 25w) according to the recent engadget review.

It now being able to bitstream properly is a bonus (some here claim is worthless anyways) but whatever, I just do not want a game console as my Blu-ray player thanks.

Noisey?
Yes, they can be.
After all the original hype & comment when they first came out the truth is that when the fans start up they are intrusive & noisey.
Again, no thanks. ]]>Aug 30th 2009 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/Aug 30th 2009 2:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/
Rather than have your Panasonic discontinued in 6 months and abandoned 6 months later the PS3 is far more likely to keep the firmware upgrades coming.

The original PS3 will outnumber any other Blu-Ray player for quite a while extending its lifetime even further.]]>Aug 30th 2009 5:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/
None of the name-brand CE manufacturers have abandoned their early players, nevermind current ones - and certainly not a brand like Panasonic.
Even LG recently stepped up to make their long discontinued BH200 tri-format player 'profile 2.0' compliant
(and amazingly this was even after offering a $75 rebate to owners when it looked like they were not going to bother!)

In fact I'd suggest you're far more likely to see more regular firmware updates related to video playback issues on a dedicated video player than the game console

(and that's before we go near the whole issue, regularl & repeated firmware updates are not IMHO 'a good thing' to be lumbering this video format with anyways, not if it is serious about going mainstream).]]>Aug 30th 2009 10:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/Aug 29th 2009 12:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/Aug 29th 2009 12:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/
Engadget- Whats this "too slow" bullshit, maybe your "unit" is defective, because i know your ps3 is. ]]>Aug 29th 2009 3:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/Aug 29th 2009 12:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/Aug 29th 2009 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/Aug 29th 2009 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/Aug 29th 2009 1:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/Aug 29th 2009 3:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/
I already have an 80 GB PS3 (the earlier 80 GB model with the 4 USB ports, memory card readers and PS2 backwards software emulation). I'll be keeping it. But I'm seriously considering getting a Slim for a second room.]]>Aug 29th 2009 1:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/Aug 29th 2009 5:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/Aug 29th 2009 8:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/Aug 30th 2009 4:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/Aug 29th 2009 2:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/Aug 29th 2009 3:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/Aug 29th 2009 3:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/Aug 29th 2009 5:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/
As for IR, it's clear Sony have made their bed on the matter. Go buy an IR/BT adapter. Again it won't affect sales much.

As for cable / satellite / terrestrial reception, I agree to some extent that it would be awesome if Sony produced a model with some kind of receiver/recording capability. Look at Japan as example of a country which would go CRAZY for a PS3 with a tuner and recording capabilities. They love their DVD/BD recorders over there. In Europe, Sony have already PlayTV that turns a PS3 into a DVB-T twin tuner. However, it's a question of cost and there are massive differences between regions. Even somewhere "standardized" like Europe uses multiple flavours of DVB-T with more emerging all the time for HD etc.. Sony are never going to make everyone happy.

I feel the expense of such an endeavour would be a waste of time except for well defined markets like Japan. Even there it might compete with Sony's other products so it would be self defeating. Outside of that the best you can hope for is a dongle appears which like PlayTV enables some kind of reception.]]>Aug 30th 2009 4:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/Actually, I had planned to abandon the PS3 last month when the highly acclaimed Oppo Blu-ray player was released. After all of the hype over the Oppo, and at twice the price of the PS3 system, I was struck by the fact that the original PS3 (and now the Slim) out- performed it on almost all respects--especially upscaling DVDs. Reviewers are heaping kind words on the Oppo player while I think that the Sony PS3 is a far better Blu-ray player.
My only objection to the Slim thus far is that, if you use the system like a component in your AV set up shelves--you can not see the red or green light indicators. Given the fact that the new unit is so quiet, you could actually waste power should you find yourself forgetting to turn off the system after going on to other things.
Indeed, I've yet to se any player under $1500 beat the PS3 in overally speed and quality of image.]]>Aug 29th 2009 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/
I'm leaning to the Oppo for the SACD and the analogue outs, but truly I'd mostly use it for watching my older DVDs...]]>Aug 29th 2009 2:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/Aug 29th 2009 3:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/Aug 29th 2009 3:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/Aug 31st 2009 9:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/
I'm hoping to snag either an old Samsung BD-P2550 for its HQV chip (but slow load times) or the BD-P3600 for it's speed and feature set. I have heard that it does a phenomenal job of upconverting, just not QUITE what the HQV chip produced, -- but I think I could live with that.

But, yeah. I've never wanted to get a PS3, actually. Call my crazy, maybe?]]>Aug 29th 2009 3:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/Aug 29th 2009 5:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/
http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/message?board.id=ps3&thread.id=4032196]]>Aug 29th 2009 5:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/Aug 29th 2009 4:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/Aug 29th 2009 4:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/
Best damn BD player ever. ]]>Aug 29th 2009 5:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/Aug 29th 2009 5:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/gaming/playstation_3/cables/devices/5732&cl=gb,en]]>Aug 29th 2009 5:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/Aug 29th 2009 6:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/Aug 29th 2009 11:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/Aug 29th 2009 7:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/If I would be happy doing things the 'sony' way, (with mp3's videos etc) then the PS3 could make quite a nice general media player.]]>Aug 30th 2009 1:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/
Now as a blu-ray player alone, thats a pretty expensive player when now the average price is 199.

But I would tell anyone who does not have a gaming console and needs a blu-ray player that the ps3 is your best choice if you see yourself gaming someday. ]]>Aug 30th 2009 3:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/Aug 30th 2009 4:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/
The rootkit was how long ago? And who wrote it? Oh wait, NOT Sony! They licensed it from a 3rd party, who nobody every bitches at.

Sony makes tons of great products. Are their TVs hindered? No, you can actually playback MPEG2 TS to their older TVs via iLink. And they're some of the best LCDs on the market today. Oh, and their receivers? Their Reader (100 books on mine, 2 are from the Sony store... go figure). The PS3? Oh, proprietary OS not cracked... kinda like the 360 and Wii, except hackers figured out to chip those.

And which division did I name actually decided to rootkit the CDs? None of them.

Yeah, let's NEVER forgive Sony and punish OURSELVES by not buying their great products. But you still have music from Sony though. That'd be the true irony.

-Pie]]>Aug 30th 2009 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/Aug 30th 2009 5:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/Aug 30th 2009 10:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/
Putting an IR on the PS3 would be like putting a backup steam engine on a Space Shuttle.]]>Aug 30th 2009 12:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/the new ps3 can bitstream i just install my 6,000 home theater system i my living room thank you sony for listing to your fans, the best console out there i love watching blu-ray movies with my family and playing games.]]>Aug 30th 2009 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/Aug 30th 2009 5:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/poll-will-you-buy-a-ps3-slim-to-use-as-a-blu-ray-player/Aug 30th 2009 9:05PM