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akuma587 on 26 November 2008
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Mistershine said:
Kyros said:
r, but the fact stands that it is beaten in quality by a lot of standalone players


In which regard? AFAIK the PS3 still is the player that is loading discs fastest because it has considerably more firepower with its CELL chip than competing players.
Its big hard-disc, WLAN internet connection etc. are also great for Internet features, updates ...
It also has almost all standards BluRay 2.0, BD-Live, 7.1 sound ...

The only thing I would concede is the noticeable sound of the fan, which may be annoying (Of course you need to buy a Remote instead of the controller) And the high power consumption.

Or do you mean picture quality? I am no audiophil/videophil (does something like that exist) and I didn't compare it with other players obviously but it looks almost perfect so ...

 

 I should have said picture quality, my bad. We seem to be coming from 2 different angles on this.

I have yet to hear anything that the picture quality is worse on the PS3 than it is on any other player.  Care to enlighten us as to why or give some corroborating evidence to support your claims, because I don't believe them.  Your TV is going to affect your picture quality WAY more than your player will. 

And even people who know a great deal about picture quality would have a hard time telling the picture apart when watching a movie on two different players on the same TV.  Individual specs of a player will affect the picture quality very little (sound quality can be a completely different story based on what audio formats the player supports), as optical media is sort of designed that way to begin with as long as the minimum player requirements set out for that type of opitcal media are met by the product specs (which they have to be in order to get licensed).

I'm not saying it doesn't matter, but few people will notice a difference based on the player itself.

 



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