Sony to market PS3 as Blu-ray player

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Originally Posted by msetten

I hope this also means they will soon release a firmware upgrade for the PS3 to make it profile 1.1 and to have it fully decode DTS-MA and bitstream DTS-MA.

I doubt if they'll do internal decoding, because that would require royalties to be paid to DTS for every PS3 system. They'll do pass-through before the end of the year, I'll bet.

I take this announcement by Sony as a definite focus on Profile 1.1 and 2.0 compatibility. We may not have to wait much longer folks...