Video Asylum

Posted by 4season (A) on April 06, 2008 at 21:59:28

In Reply to: RE: There's a rumor that Microsoft will support Blue-Ray in future Xbox 360's. posted by howard on April 06, 2008 at 21:24:40

PS/3 works well as a Blu-Ray player, and Sony continues to offer significant upgrades to it's features and performance via software updates: B-D Profile 1.1, and now, 2.0, for instance. It's also massively overpowered for simply playing movies, and as a result, it boots quickly and loads movie disks quickly too.

Downside with PS/3 is the hassle in getting it to work with a universal remote (need to add 3rd party IR receiver, and even then, need to cope with the fact that it makes references to the Playstation keys), you need HDMI 1.3 for best results, and it may not be possible to deliver TrueHD or DTS HD Master Audio via HDMI, except by transcoding to PCM.

I'm not crazy about the slot-loading mechanism: For me, tray-loading is more comfortable, and I'm less apt to put fingerprints on the disk's surface.

Disclaimer: I don't have access to a standalone B-D player, only the PS/3.