Why I Love the PS3

What I find amazing about the PS3 is that it seems more than the sum of it's parts. As a video game system it's unparalled, as a Blu ray player it's at the very top. I recently discovered that the PS3 can access media content on your networked PC's. It can also play a wide variety of codecs, WMA, WMV, DivX, SACD, JPEG, MP3, MP4, GIF, BMP, and the list goes on. With the addtion of a keyboard and a mouse you can also use it as a compter and it can wirelessly (802.11 b/g WiFi) connect to the internet. The Flash Card Media Center (60 and 80 gig units) allows you to access flash memory in an instant. iPOD and video camera connectivity. I could go on and on about the PS3. Alot of people say, "I don't want a video game system for a player" like I said before in other threads I've seen some very high end HT's use the PS3 as a Blu ray player and true no DTS MA or analogs out but as a player IMO no HDDVD player could match it.

[Post edited by tony1569 on Jan 13, 2008]

You love the PS3 because Sony paid you off!! ADMIT IT!!!

Can you attach an external USB drive to the PS3 and play movies off it? If you can do that...that would be perfect.

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Can you attach an external USB drive to the PS3 and play movies off it? If you can do that...that would be perfect.

As a matter of fact, you can. Both USB flash drives and external USB hard drives.

The ps3 actually is a nice piece of hardware. Its only drawback is that as a gaming machine is stinks in regards to software development. If they had made it more game developer friendly then it really would be perfect.

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Can you attach an external USB drive to the PS3 and play movies off it? If you can do that...that would be perfect.

Yes Falc that and all the things Tony mentioned above. most of em also with the 360 except for the browser part, which i find totally unecesary. i have a pc and a notebook.

Not hating or anything, you can whine if you want to ... i have both systems.
WHAT I HATE ABOUT THE PS3

-Installing games. including demos. some newer games take long,
-Friends list (handeling) sucks. cant see what friends are doing, or much for that matter.
-Controllers dont rumble, since launch.. new controllers coming, very expensive.
-Regular, and classic game selection sucks.
-No true HD sound as a Blu player.

[Post edited by kucoloco on Feb 28, 2008]

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As a video game system it's unparalled

I can see your arguement for everything else, but for gaming it's the bottom of the list.
Why:
-Installing games. including demos. some newer games take long,
-Friends list / online playing is years behind Xbox live. Even if it's free.
-Regular, and classic game selection sucks.

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No true HD sound as a Blu player.

You need to upgrade your firmware. My PS3 handles TrueHD audio just fine.

if you want to take advantage of TrueHD with the PS3 and your receiver, then you actually have to set the Blu-Ray Disc audio output setting for HDMI (in the PS3's BD/DVD settings menu) to "PCM" instead of "bitstream." This will allow the PS3 to losslessly expand the Dolby TrueHD soundtrack into pure multi-channel PCM for decoding by your receiver. You will get better results that way than by sending a regular compressed Dolby Digital signal to the receiver as you are doing now.

Currently when you set the PS3's HDMI audio output to "bitstream," advanced audio codecs such as Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio are "truncated" to their "core" Dolby Digital and DTS components, thereby losing quite a bit of the audio data, which makes the sound quality suffer.

At some point in the future, the PS3 may support bitstream audio for Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD - or at least on-board decoding of DTS-HD and conversion to PCM - but as of the latest 2.1 firmware upgrade, that feature is still not available.

Can you take advantage of DolbyTrueHD on a BD disk using the PS3? YES

Does the PS3 decode TrueHD? YES

Does it bitstream to a reciever so the reciever can decode it? NO

Doest it internally decode dts HD/MA? NO

Is SONY and dts working on an update to have the PS3 decode dts HD/MA internally? YES.

If you try to decode dts HD/MA with the PS3 what will happen? You will get the 1.5 Mbps core which is higher than the standard 700+Mbps dts.

Bottom line is, YES the PS3 does decode DolbyTrueHD, with dts you only get the core.

Due to some hardware that the PS3 does not have it will never be able to bitstream HD codecs.

EDIT: Since I've gotten the 605 I've listen to Dolby TrueHD and it still does not compare to LPCM, I have'nt heard a dts HD/MA track yet, but I always like dts over Dolby anyway so I'm sure that it will come close to LPCM.

[Post edited by tony1569 on Feb 28, 2008]