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Originally Posted by MacDaddyOJack
Cha-ching! That's the reason I own a stand alone (I also have a PS3 for gaming!) The other main difference is power consumption during a movie. A stand alone is something like 23 watts and the PS3 is well over 100. Not that big of a deal, but it can add up.
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The difference in power consumption can be an issue but it's not cuz of bitstreaming versus PCM. Because, in theory, if less power is used in a player because it is bitstreaming, then everything else being equal, assuming the same efficiencies across the board, you'll just have to end up using more power in the receiver for the receiver to decode. In reality, of course, the PS3 is probably less power efficient as it is not designed solely with video playback in mind. But having a more general purpose processing workup also means, it seems, that it's more stable, more firmware updateable ... just extremely versatile simply as a media player even for strictly video and not even considering MP3s. And the PS3's internals are not as general purpose as say a PC or even an Xbox. The Cell processor has many applications but one of them is in certain graphics-intensive ones.
O and I do want to say as politely as I can that it is IMO a mistake to consider it a mere "toy". If it were a mere "toy" or primarily a "toy" or primarily a "game console" do you really think that the military of the world's sole remaining superpower would have invested in literally hundreds of these as part of their cutting edge research and development? Yes, the US military ordered hundreds of PS3s (40GB models, incidentally) and is using it for military research. Here's a link as probably some won't take my word for it:
http://hushedcasket.com/node/2816
"US military buying 300 PlayStation 3 consoles for research lab project"
This is for the Air Force Research Laboratory and the military stated that the PS3 was the ONLY brand on the market that utilizes the special Cell processor they are interested in at an acceptable cost. And, I don't know if this is related but back in 2006, the DoE ordered a bunch for their purposes (for their project codenamed Roadrunner, it is in phase 1).
Here's a link from an official govt site:
http://www.fbo.gov/spg/USAF/AFMC/AFR...SynopsisP.html
Note the "70" is a classification code. The quantity they are ordering is "300" as both links state. Maybe those who knock the PS3 should call up the US Air Force and tell them it's just a "toy"
