PS3 power consumption playing Blu-Ray movies?

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Originally Posted by GasCat

I don't really understand your fear. It was designed to play movies. The number of watts consumed is limited by a resisitor on the unit isn't it?

Well, current draw is limited to the 3.2A (in the US) which is the rating of the power supply, but it does not have to draw that much at all times, so my question was to see how much current it actually draws while playing blu-ray movies. The PS3 acts more like a computer than a dedicated blu-ray player, and it consumes different amount of power depending on CPU utilization, whether it uses the GPU (another CPU-like chip designed for graphical operations/calculations) extensively, whether it uses the hard-drive, etc.
As I mentioned I read somewhere that SACD decoding is done in software meaning it does not have a dedicated chip for that, it uses the CPU and a software written for this purpose, as opposed to a dedicated chip that SACD players have and this approach results in higher power consumption. I wasn't sure how blu-ray playback is performed in this unit, that's why I posted this question.