Is there an article detailing how the PS3 is better than a standalone?

[WickyWoo]

People who choose the standalone over the PS3 are COMPLETELY missing its potential as a media center

I really wish people would get their definitions right. PS3 is standalone in every definition of the word. You're talking about a DEDICATED player. And people who choose dedicated decks are choosing them for the 6-channel analog out, the far superior DACs and the dedicated and tuned data pipelines specifically for movie playback

And I wouldn't be counting on the Cell as this miracle worker. Considering that film playback is essentially one fat pipe, those extra processors aren't doing much

Anyone who works in high end electronics will tell you that having dedicated specialized hardware beats the generic every time when it comes to what you can ring out of it in the long run.

[Amon37]

What do you think that standalones will be able to do in the long run that the PS3 will not?

[WickyWoo]

DEDICATED

Read the above.

[Iceman_II]

Originally Posted by WickyWoo

Anyone who works in high end electronics will tell you that having dedicated specialized hardware beats the generic every time when it comes to what you can ring out of it in the long run.

As long as "what you can ring out" is a technology available in the snapshot in time when the product was produced.

Far superior DACs??? They may be "marginally" superior, but I seem to recall NO reviews where ANY dedicated player significantly beat the PS3 in picture quality... if there is one, please enlighten us.

And people who care about audio do NOT by players because they decode, that is what audio components are for.

Dedicated and tuned data pipelines for movies? Hate to tell you this, but the data throughput for video games is pretty stinking high as well.

While you "wish people would get their definitions right" I wish people would stop throwing up chaf in attempts to minimize the quality/utility/performance of the PS3, simply to justify their purchase of a "dedicated player"... All it amounts to is a show of pretension.

[inaz4sun]

Read CNET's review.

[sportsfan8]

I don't think anybody is seriously (not in this thread, at least) "minimizing the quality/utility/performance of the PS3." People make their own decisions based on their system at home, certain features, etc. Some people don't need the media center features of the PS3. Hey, we should be happy we're all in the same club. Blu-ray kicks ass.

[WickyWoo]

Far superior DACs??? They may be "marginally" superior, but I seem to recall NO reviews where ANY dedicated player significantly beat the PS3 in picture quality... if there is one, please enlighten us.

Depends on how you define signifigant. I'll freely admit that right now you're right, but like with DVD players I don't think you'll be right 2 years from now.

And people who care about audio do NOT by players because they decode, that is what audio components are for.

Right now they do, until HDMI 1.3 recievers hit and something less than a good used car

Dedicated and tuned data pipelines for movies? Hate to tell you this, but the data throughput for video games is pretty stinking high as well

And those pipes are tweaked for games. Not movies, though they do fine.

While you "wish people would get their definitions right" I wish people would stop throwing up chaf in attempts to minimize the quality/utility/performance of the PS3, simply to justify their purchase of a "dedicated player"... All it amounts to is a show of pretension.

I'm not. The point i was making was that the value as a media hub does not outweigh the value of a solidly built dedicated player, especially to an enthusiast, and it won't take long for there to be plenty of decks that do pass the PS3 in quality.

[Rup_Muk]

Rawn,
Welcome to this forum.
I guess your "friend" has already decided that s/he wants to go blu - and now the decision to be made is whether to put down 600 moolahs for the PS3 or 500 big ones on the S300. There are quite a few compelling reasons already provided - and here's my $0.02...

The PS3 is both a BR player and a game console.
The PS3 can be configured to load LINUX and function as a computer.
You can read e-mail with a huge HD "monitor".
You can instigate chats with friends.
When PS3 Home is released, you can be a member of an online community.
You can download trailers, game demos, games from the PSN.
You can backup data on an external hard drive.
You can upgrade to a larger hard drive.
You can stream photos, music, and videos from your LAN computer.

In other words, the PS3 is what Microsoft and Apple and Dell envisioned their media centers would be.

Want more reasons? Ask again.

While I had commiserated over the purchase of the PS3 in Dec '06, once I had it going, I wondered why I ever thought so much about it!

Thank you to you and your "friend" for going BLU!!!

Rup.

[WickyWoo]

The PS3 is both a BR player and a game console.
The PS3 can be configured to load LINUX and function as a computer.
You can read e-mail with a huge HD "monitor".
You can instigate chats with friends.
When PS3 Home is released, you can be a member of an online community.
You can download trailers, game demos, games from the PSN.
You can backup data on an external hard drive.
You can upgrade to a larger hard drive.
You can stream photos, music, and videos from your LAN computer.

I can already do this on a strange device known as a "PC", which can also magically be hooked up to said TV, and holds a lot more stuff, and not on tiny expensive laptop drives, and there's no need to stream what's already there

And might I add, my media machine was built from spare parts from other machines