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Originally Posted by Centauri
Yes, I still think it is the ugliest piece of consumer hardware ever to be considered successful at market. Yes, I still loathe Sony.
But... my nerd morals seem to be in fluctuation lately. And I'm craving things that the 360 apparently can't provide.
I'm not a gamer. At all. And I kinda doubt I will ever be. So my mild interest in the PS3 only goes so deep as its entertainment potential.
I see that it plays DVDs. I see that it plays SACDs. And I've heard it apparently also plays Blu-rays...
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Upscales DVDs very well indeed, If you want a SACD playing one, make sure you get a 80GB one, the 40GB ones don't (at least not here in Europe). Yes it plays Blu-Ray, it also does very classy photo slideshows, and acts as a very capable media streaming client (photos, video, music). It's got some tasty music visulisations, if that's your thing. You can rip CD's to the HDD, it will even upsale audio (in a similar way video is upscaled.
So I have a few questions;
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Originally Posted by Centauri
DivX playback: To what extent can it handle DivX? What resolutions? And can it read them from a USB flash drive?
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No resolution limits I am aware of. It's got DivX support certified by DivX networks, and you can play them from a USB drive, or even a big external USB HDD stuffed full of music and movies. It also plays Xvid, AVC, MPEG1, MPEG2. It has Mosquito noise reduction, and MPEG macro-deblocking which works very well for low bitrate video.
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Originally Posted by Centauri
International DVDs: Can the player be made multi-region?
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In short, no. The workaround, is to rip them on your PC using DVD Decrypter, and remove the region coding, the MPEG VOB can be copied to the HDD and played from there.
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Originally Posted by Centauri
Remote: Can the PS3's hideous controller be taken completely out of the equation, allowing the system to be controlled entirely by the remote control that can be had?
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Absolutely, and because it's Bluetooth, it does not need line of sight, so you can keep the PS3 out of view if it's looks bothers you that much...
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Originally Posted by Centauri
Audio connectivity: Is its only digital-out optical? With my 5000 likely going toward the funding of a PS3 should I so decide, I'd have to bring my A20 back into service for HD DVDs, meaning it and the PS3 would have to fight over my receiver's one optical audio input.
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It's only digital out optical, and digital out via HDMI 1.3a(7.1ch via HDMI).