ps3 as a blu-ray player

handyman · Post by **handyman** » Fri Nov 13, 2009 9:43 pm

want to get a blu-ray player, and cant see any negative reason why not to spend £250 on a 120gb slim ps3 with remote

Things I want is upscaling and profile 2.0, which it appears to have.

Its in the same price range of most players at the moment, and is a game machine as well............any downsides? any better players for the money out there?

Cheers

asinine · Post by **asinine** » Sat Nov 14, 2009 2:44 pm

Not if you want to pllay games

handyman · Post by **handyman** » Sat Nov 14, 2009 5:56 pm

what does that mean?

handyman · Post by **handyman** » Sat Nov 14, 2009 5:57 pm

and john lewis now has it at £200

wine~o · Post by **wine~o** » Sat Nov 14, 2009 6:19 pm

handyman wrote:and john lewis now has it at £200

Never knowingly under-sold

Chris_J · Post by **Chris_J** » Sat Nov 14, 2009 9:50 pm

In a word, No. Not got one myself but by far one of the best players and a bonus as it's a games machine too.

Chris_J · Post by **Chris_J** » Sat Nov 14, 2009 9:51 pm

Actually it's a decent media centre too. TVersity or whatever it's called is all good.

asinine · Post by **asinine** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 1:51 pm

handyman wrote:what does that mean?

That if you want to play games as well then theres no downsides.

handyman · Post by **handyman** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 2:41 pm

costco has them for £197, got a hang tag off the display, went with it to the checkout as instructed...........to be told they had none in stock.

Had a hissy fit as to why they have the hangtags on display and none in stock

skiking · Post by **skiking** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 6:16 pm

Just buy a Blue-ray machine....Richer Sounds are doing LG for less then £80

handyman · Post by **handyman** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 9:01 pm

its when you read this type of thing all the time
http://stuff.tv/Reviews/TV-hi-fi-Review ... s-Reviews/

top 10 from stuff, and the ps3 is number 2, and all the well rated machines cost more than £200..........When reading reviews in general, it appears a waste of £80 getting one of the cheaper ones??

skiking · Post by **skiking** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 11:33 pm

FFS - Stuff is a lads mag what do they know about technology

Its similar to TS (with less t1ts). These mags are too generic, you need a specialist mag.

When PS2 came out it came with a downgraded DVD player so they wouldn't distract from the their other range.....do you really think Sony would ship a games console with a top notch BR to knock their own products. Look at the top 9, 4 are Sony yet one of the cheapest is a games console

For almost a quarter of the price you can have a LG that probably has a comparable BR

handyman · Post by **handyman** » Mon Nov 16, 2009 8:11 am

skiking wrote:do you really think Sony would ship a games console with a top notch BR to knock their own products. Look at the top 9, 4 are Sony yet one of the cheapest is a games console

Exactly, cant believe it myself (hence asking if i'm missing something), but almost every site has the ps3 in the top ten, and in almost every site its the cheapest of the top ten.

Its also one of the few units thats 'future proof' a bit more, as they can download new software to the system. Example of this was the 'profile 2' system, which the old ps3 didnt have, but they upgraded the software and now it works this sytem.........for free.

gday2uk · Post by **gday2uk** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 10:30 am

It mentions the PS3 being out for nearly a year.
The review was written in 2007

It is not relevent to todays top 10 BD players.

handyman · Post by **handyman** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 4:44 pm

gday2uk wrote:It mentions the PS3 being out for nearly a year.
The review was written in 2007
It is not relevent to todays top 10 BD players.

There are other top ten lists which have reviewed the new slim version. The review in stuff mag 2 months ago was the new slim ps3, but the website still has the old one reviewed (but a new slim ps3 is the picture

)