That's exactly what I'm waiting for. I'm going to buy a full HD TV next month. Want a bluray player. The PS3 is good but I simply don't like the PS3 so I'm left with the option of buying a HTPC with a bluray player. Preferably I would love to purchase a 360 with a built in or external bluray drive.
You should suck it up....for the $ you are not going to find a better BD player than the PS3 for twice the price. You are not forced to use it for any thing else but the built in DLNA to stream PC content, Netflix (soon), HULU etc and the built in WiFi are awesome. SONY won't bite. Oh, through a PSP into the mix for Remote Play of your streaming content too (not BD yet though :( )
@BSTKiller I couldnt agree more I have a 360 for gaming but I have PS3 for home entertainment system. I dont even have any games for it. Streaming all my vids and music from my iMac and using the browser for youtube, bbc iplayer (UK only), and all the other *ahem* legit online video sites. As well as a great blu-ray player. I dont even have a sixaxis anymore just use the bluetooth remote and logitech mediaboard.
Yo homeboy, the dolts at MS are like the dolts at Toshiba. See if you can buy a better player or build an HTPC or whatever you want to do for less than $399. Remember as long as you don't buy games Sony loses money on your purchase.
I would never buy a PS3 for a media player. You don't get MKV support and that is essential. I can live without BluRay because I can download the bluray rips in MKV format. WMVHD is what I use now and stream to my Xbox but my next step is a Core2Duo with HDMI out based system that can play everything.
The 360 doesn't support MKV either. You can quickly remux to MP4 (XenonMKV and one or two other programs out there can do this for you), but you'll lose surround sound and have a 4 GB file size limit, or you can go through a lengthy (10-24 hrs depending on file size and PC) and tedious re-encode process to WMVHD. On the other hand, for the PS3 you can use a program called MKV2VOB to quickly (1-2 minutes) remux an MVK for a playable format and retain full surround sound and the exact same video quality as the source MKV (since it's a remux and not a transcode). I'd esitmate that works for about 85% of the MKVs out there. The rest require some minor transcoding, but it typically takes 2-4 hours on my PC instead of the 12 or so hours trancoding to WMVHD took (and those failed half the time).
How on earth did a post about a new mouse turn into a fanboy rant about which console is best? Oh yeah, clever. Blue. Blu-ray. Ok, I get it. Impressive.
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Yeah everyone know's blue is better, yeah you can tell ms is caving in...they'll have blu on their xbox360 soon.
That's exactly what I'm waiting for. I'm going to buy a full HD TV next month. Want a bluray player. The PS3 is good but I simply don't like the PS3 so I'm left with the option of buying a HTPC with a bluray player. Preferably I would love to purchase a 360 with a built in or external bluray drive.
@homeboy
You should suck it up....for the $ you are not going to find a better BD player than the PS3 for twice the price. You are not forced to use it for any thing else but the built in DLNA to stream PC content, Netflix (soon), HULU etc and the built in WiFi are awesome. SONY won't bite. Oh, through a PSP into the mix for Remote Play of your streaming content too (not BD yet though :( )
I wish the same for Toshiba laptops soon...
@BSTKiller I couldnt agree more I have a 360 for gaming but I have PS3 for home entertainment system. I dont even have any games for it. Streaming all my vids and music from my iMac and using the browser for youtube, bbc iplayer (UK only), and all the other *ahem* legit online video sites. As well as a great blu-ray player. I dont even have a sixaxis anymore just use the bluetooth remote and logitech mediaboard.
"The PS3 is good but I simply don't like the PS3..."
Now that makes sense.
Yo homeboy, the dolts at MS are like the dolts at Toshiba. See if you can buy a better player or build an HTPC or whatever you want to do for less than $399. Remember as long as you don't buy games Sony loses money on your purchase.
I would never buy a PS3 for a media player. You don't get MKV support and that is essential. I can live without BluRay because I can download the bluray rips in MKV format. WMVHD is what I use now and stream to my Xbox but my next step is a Core2Duo with HDMI out based system that can play everything.
oh boo hoo kurt im so sorry ps3 doesn't play your illegal downloads...
MKV support could be added in the future if more people use it (they just added xvid in a few updates ago)
WMVHD sucks
stop being a cheap ass and pay for the things that entertain you, people gotta eat.
@Kurt
The 360 doesn't support MKV either. You can quickly remux to MP4 (XenonMKV and one or two other programs out there can do this for you), but you'll lose surround sound and have a 4 GB file size limit, or you can go through a lengthy (10-24 hrs depending on file size and PC) and tedious re-encode process to WMVHD. On the other hand, for the PS3 you can use a program called MKV2VOB to quickly (1-2 minutes) remux an MVK for a playable format and retain full surround sound and the exact same video quality as the source MKV (since it's a remux and not a transcode). I'd esitmate that works for about 85% of the MKVs out there. The rest require some minor transcoding, but it typically takes 2-4 hours on my PC instead of the 12 or so hours trancoding to WMVHD took (and those failed half the time).
Hmm... I got low ranked for wanting Blu-ray on Toshiba laptops. Why the hate? :(
transcoding just so you're compatible for playback om some gizmo?
fuck that. HTPC ftw.
seriously, saying MKV is only for illegal downloads? talk about ignorant! it's called (legally) archiving your DVDs.
How on earth did a post about a new mouse turn into a fanboy rant about which console is best? Oh yeah, clever. Blue. Blu-ray. Ok, I get it. Impressive.
Please stop.