Bluray player price vs ps3

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Originally Posted by Psiweaver

PS3 will not lower prices of standalone blu-ray players at all. They are different products for different customers.

i ment Stadalone Blu Ray players. From other maufactures. $999 seems to be the defacto price, but it only takes one company to relase one at $600 to set the bar for mid range players.

But as for quality of Blu-Ray playback on PS3. It all depends on Sony. To play incredibly realistic graphics at 1080p takes a lot of computational horse power. PS3 will be faster than most High End PCs. DVD playback on PCs with hardware accelleration will look somewhat better than a standard progresive scan DVD player. With CELL and RSX, Sony can keep updating Blu-ray playback software to match those on the PC to have unpresedented Blu-Ray playback quality.

However i feel PS3 will have a presence on the Home Theater market. 2 Millon PS3s at launch are going to sell out no problem, and that will add 2 million new Blu-ray movie customers. they show it to friends and family that may get PS3 or a standalone Blu-ray player.