The nextbox and bluray. Do you want it???

[SvennoJ]

I prefer my ps3 for multimedia since 360 is lacking in a few key areas.

- No uncompressed surround sound output, limited to 640 kbps 5.1 DD or lpcm 2 channel.
- It can't play my 24mbps m2ts (h.264) videos, I have to down convert them to a max 10mbps format compatible with 360 first which takes forever.
- It won't display gif, not even bmp files, again I don't want to convert all my pictures to lossy jpg.
- It doesn't display 1920x1080 pictures correctly, there is some down sampling going on before it comes back out as 1080p. Fine detail is lost (Maybe that's only on the old fat model I don't know)
- The video player is not as responsive and has way less options for slow/fast motion back and forwards and no 1.5 speed with sound.
- The cd player has a slight pause between tracks, pretty annoying for trance mixes.

Both don't support uncompressed digital audio file formats, so I'm still stuck with CD's for now.
Both don't support the lossless jpg format.

The nextbox has some catching up to do if it wants to become my preferred multimedia machine.

Where do you live that you get unlimited fast internet but crappy blu-ray selection in stores? Although I used to have that until internet became widely used here, then it got slower, capped and more expensive sigh.
Blu-ray is thriving here at the cost of dvd shelf space. Plenty older blu-rays are priced 10 dollars and lower nowadays in stores.