What Blu-ray Player To Buy??

[Iceman_II]

"Smoother look" with a stand alone???

Dude, step away from the Hookah! ... JK, we're all friends here

Unless you can have both a standalone and the PS3 sitting side by side to compare, you really can't say that one is anymore smooth than the other... and before you come back with "the guy at circuit city showed me both side by side" think for a minute, you are looking at BD, and trying to decide, who set up the test? you or him? which unit does he REALLY want to sell you? Does he want to get the commission on 600, or does he want the commission on 1000? Thats why I put a bit more weight into the review I linked above, he isn't on commission, and there is no benifit to him wether you buy it or not.

Updating is a snap, plug it in to an ethernet connection, and click on update.

As for how it looks:

Besides, when you are watching a movie, its going to have the lights turned down, and no one will give a damn how the player looks

I'm loving the PS3, and as for all this garbage about how it doesn't have all the features of stand alones, for the most part that is crap, it has 5.1, DTS, ACC, and 7.1 (granted, it only has 7.1 if you use an HDMI reciever) Drop an extra 25 and get the remote, and it will stand toe to toe with darn near anything

[Iceman_II]

[hijack]

Montivette, what kind of cabling are you using to your mitsu?

I have a three year old Sony, I cheat and use the HDMI out from the PS3 (which they didn't have back then) and connect it to the DVI port on the TV.... trust me, if you aren't doing this, you are shooting yourself in the foot...

[/hijack]

[Montivette]

Originally Posted by Iceman_II

[hijack]

Montivette, what kind of cabling are you using to your mitsu?

I have a three year old Sony, I cheat and use the HDMI out from the PS3 (which they didn't have back then) and connect it to the DVI port on the TV.... trust me, if you aren't doing this, you are shooting yourself in the foot...

[/hijack]

Have tried HDMI to DVI and via component cable with identical results. At a foot or two away you can see the blu-ray image is a bit crisper and it has more pixels, but the blu-ray movie image is not as vibrant/vivid in color or in brightness as the DVD. At a normal distance when flipping back in forth between two paused movies, one Blu-Ray, one DVD, the Blu-Ray image does not stand out immediately as the better image, it perhaps could be said to be crisper or sharper, but the color detail is lacking which makes the DVD images look better.

I have paused on various peoples faces and other objects to compare the detail of one vs the other and at 10' you really can't see much of a difference.

The PS3 and same movies on newer LCD look stunning and perhaps I would say 10x better of an image. It has more of a mind blowing "wow that is super nice" kind of image. It is like night and day. On the 3 year old TV it is like night compared to night and a toss up as to which image is the better image, the one with move vibrant colors (DVD) but slightly soft and fussy around the edges, or the Blu Ray which has a more crisp/sharper image but has duller color and no noticeable increase in detail. On the LCD I could see the potmarks in peoples faces, the pores of their skin, their faces were like a 3-D landscape. On the CRT there is virtually no difference DVD or Blu-Ray.

[preston001]

Originally Posted by Iceman_II

"Smoother look" with a stand alone???

Dude, step away from the Hookah! ... JK, we're all friends here

Unless you can have both a standalone and the PS3 sitting side by side to compare, you really can't say that one is anymore smooth than the other... and before you come back with "the guy at circuit city showed me both side by side" think for a minute, you are looking at BD, and trying to decide, who set up the test? you or him? which unit does he REALLY want to sell you? Does he want to get the commission on 600, or does he want the commission on 1000? Thats why I put a bit more weight into the review I linked above, he isn't on commission, and there is no benifit to him wether you buy it or not.

Updating is a snap, plug it in to an ethernet connection, and click on update.

As for how it looks:

Besides, when you are watching a movie, its going to have the lights turned down, and no one will give a damn how the player looks

I'm loving the PS3, and as for all this garbage about how it doesn't have all the features of stand alones, for the most part that is crap, it has 5.1, DTS, ACC, and 7.1 (granted, it only has 7.1 if you use an HDMI reciever) Drop an extra 25 and get the remote, and it will stand toe to toe with darn near anything

yeah well...maybe you shouldn't be too sure about what you're saying until you can show me that u have both a ps3 and a standalone blu-ray player side by side to compare...anyway like u said that's the only way u can compare...I can tell you that I dont have a stand-alone blu-ray player yet...but many are already saying that stand-alone blu-ray players are better in picture...PS3 is the cheapest blu-ray player.. it won't be the best blu-ray player...sure maybe this is not true yet...but soon you'll see a difference...same way u can see a difference between a ps2 and some good dvd players...