On Jan 31, 6:59*pm, Steve wrote:
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:43:40 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote:

"Steve" wrote in message
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On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:24:25 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote:

If you want a BluRay player, I'm curious why someone would buy a
BluRay player other than a PS3 for $399? *The PS3 works great as a
BluRay player. *It's not slow, doesn't cut out, doesn't have *any* of
the problems you mentioned above and uses a very fast microprocessor.
By far, the very fastest available in any home computer actually.

And as a bonus, besides watching BluRay discs, you can play PS2 or PS3
games and (if you plug in a USB keyboard and mouse) even use it as a
general purpose computer running Linux. *It's the best deal going in
home entertainment if you ask me.

Steve

I didn't know PS3 played Blu-Ray until after I had purchased the disk
players, *mentioned the issues to my daughter and she informed me about PS3
which she has for her two boys. * I have no interest in video games, so it
didn't occur to me to even check them out. *Except .... * due to the
discussion, she let me borrow their "Wii" system. *What a blast!
You hold a controller in your hand and physically go through the motions of
bowling or swinging a baseball bat, golf club, tennis racket, etc. * I got a
kick out of it.

Back to Blue-Ray. * Does the Playstation 3 also play regular DVDs and CDs?
Also, my daughter said it had operational issues similar to those I've
experienced with the Sharp and Sony players when playing a Blu-Ray disk.
I know the Blu-Ray disks hold a huge amount of data compared to regular DVD.
I wonder if finding, reading and displaying the data is the reason for it's
slow motionness.

Yes, the PS3 playes regular DVDs and CDs. *Tell your daughter to make
sure she has the latest update to the PS3 OS. *You have to connect it
to the internet and let it update itself. *I know one of the updates
dealt with giving the BluRay player more capability to deal with newer
discs.

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Daughter? My wife it the PS3 nut here It ain't a living space if
there ain't a game station, a karaoke machine and a guitar