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Old 30-04-2008   #5 (permalink)
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Re: Sony PS3 - A good choice of Blu ray player?

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Originally Posted by zaina View Post
- Wireless and wired LAN for video streaming over network (as in Debro's post)
PS3 has 54Mb/s 802.11G only -> May not be satisfactory for streaming of HD content or cause stuttering if there are other wifi networks/bluetooth devices or general noise in the radio frequency band (and there always is).

I've got mine going to a 5pt Gb switch (along with Xbox & Wii) with a 108Mb/s 802.11G *superG* bridge.

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Cons
- No display led (to display HH:MM:SS of running movie etc)
- no rumble on the controller
- external hdd only formated in FAT32, doesn't support NTSF
- Doesn't play MKV
- It's a Sony?
- Onscreen Display.
- Why would you want this on a Bluray player remote control anyway? At any rate, buy the Bluray remote for PS3, or buy a rumble controller, if you want to feel the vibrations while playing porno bluray movies ....
- Do any standalone bluray player play content from external HDD's?
- Hopefully MKV will be added in a firmware revision, but don't bet on it. At any rate, you can transcode these on the fly via your media server, or convert them to MPEG before burning.
- I fail to see the point, besides the Root Kits installed from CD's, and the monopolistic practices, and snooty attitudes to their customers requests.

Hopefully there will be a mod chip/modded firmware to *fix* the PS3 current ..err ... deficiencies in playbacks .....

It also has problems with some WM11 audio formats, and some xvid movies (packed bitstreams perhaps? - I haven't looked into it yet).
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