40% of U.S. PS3 owners: "This thing has Blu-ray?"

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Sadly, I'd believe those figures. Many of the 42 people on my PSN list, were blissfully unaware of many of the PS3's capabilities, including voice/video chat, store downloads, photo apps, and how to optimize their settings for video/sound, until I had told/shown them how to do these things. Hell, there were/are 3 people on my list that didn't know how to accept friendlist invites until just this past month (unbelievably, 2 of these guys had launch PS3s). One of my real life friends owns a PS3 and a 60" HDTV, but is still using the composite cables that came pre-packaged with the PS3, and hasn't even logged into the PSN yet (I'm going over there when Madden comes out with one of my spare headsets, an HDMI cable, and my old wireless router to set him up properly, so we can do online Madden ass-kickings. Although, I'm probably the one that's gonna get schooled on the game.)

What's probably the most depressing thing about all of this, all it really takes to get up to speed is to read the instruction manual that comes with the PS3...