People's irrational fear of the PS3

[Octavio]

Fear? what fear?

I just bough a standalone player because when I bought it, the standalone was about 100 bucks cheaper than the PS3, here in my country.

Also because at that time (almost one year ago) I didn't have an A/V receiver with an HDMI input, so the only way to listen hi-def audio for me it was through the multichannel outputs that PS3 doesn't have.

Besides I don't like games, but that wouldn't be a problem if the PS3 would have been cheaper and with 5.1 multichannel outputs.

Now I have a new A/V receiver, an Onkyo 805 But before buying a PS3 I'll wait to see how good are the new stand alone players profile 1.1 and 2.0.

I prefer a standalone over a PS3, but if the first ones aren't at least as good as the PS3, then this christmas I'll buy the game console.

so what fear?