My no Sony products stance has had one minor hiccup as I purchased a 80G PS3 the other day. So far I have played MotorStorm (ok) watched Pixar shorts (Blu-ray), Resident Evil: Extinction (Blu-ray), and The Namesake (DVD). I bought it primarily for playing Blu-ray disks as I was tired of seeing things released on Blu-ray instead of HD-DVD and standard def is starting to bug me, and the PS3 is the best Blu-ray player out currently,
Blu-ray playback is great, looks about the same as HD-DVD playback on my 360. The PS3 is hooked up via HDMI running 1080P to my TV where the 360 just has component out running 1080i.
DVD playback is great the scalier made The Namesake look very good, what I really liked it is detected the non-widescreen content and pillar boxed it. This is the first player I have seen that does not stretch 4:3 content when played on a 16:9 TV.
Things that I don't like about the PS3:
- It is rather large and doesn't fit where I wanted to put it under my TV.
- I had to buy a HDMI cable as it doesn't ship with one
- The USB cable for charging the controller is way too short.
- The on screen keyboard is random, sometimes it is qwerty, sometimes telephone keys.
- It didn't support the encryption I was using on my Wifi.
- It hides the HEX key for WEP making it hard to check what you are typing.
- After downloading a demo you need to install them to play.
- There are still no games I want to buy for the PS3.
- No IR sensor so I can't use my remote with it.
Things I like:
- DVD playback is very good, better then the Xbox.
- Cheap Blu-ray player
- Best Blu-ray player (1.1 Blu-ray support, potentially 2.0 support)
- Shiny black.
- Less noisy then my 360.
- Pretty flexible playing video pictures, music.
Things that may bug me in the future:
- Doesn't not handle all the Blu-ray audio formats. If it did I would need a new stereo so not important currently.