what is the best blu ray home theater for these applications?

[alfehdy]

hi

recently i was looking for a good blu ray home theater for my LCD sony 40w400a

i want to hock this blu ray home theater to
1- sony ps3 , and it will be my blu ray player
2- laptop since am viewing blu ray movies from it with HDMI cable

so is there any blu ray home theater that can handle these applications?
btw am aiming to 5.1 home theater
thanks

[Phatferd]

Originally Posted by alfehdy

hi

recently i was looking for a good blu ray home theater for my LCD sony 40w400a

i want to hock this blu ray home theater to
1- sony ps3 , and it will be my blu ray player
2- laptop since am viewing blu ray movies from it with HDMI cable

so is there any blu ray home theater that can handle these applications?
btw am aiming to 5.1 home theater
thanks

No need to hook your laptop up to your tv/receiver through HDMI. Use the PS3 as a media hub through http://ps3mediaserver.blogspot.com/

[alfehdy]

thanks Phatferd for quick responding

i tried to play those files with ps3 but in thr last i dont get the same quality since its goign to alot of transfering

so i decided to view the blu ray movies that am downloading from the laptop

but u didnt give me an advice about which blu ray home theater should i consider ?

and if i use my ps3 to play blu ray movies disks and hock it up to the blu ray homw theater , would id be that same as if i use blu ray player instead?

[RiseDarthVader]

Yes the PS3 will be the same as having a standalone player. The PS3 is probably one of the best players on the market because it is almost future proof.

[s0nIc]

Originally Posted by RiseDarthVader

Yes the PS3 will be the same as having a standalone player. The PS3 is probably one of the best players on the market because it is almost future proof.

I thought most new stand alone blu ray players are future proof since they have the ethernet cable in the back like the bds 550 thats almost 130.00 cheaper then the ps3. or the panasonic thats 150 cheaper?

[alfehdy]

thanks RiseDarthVader

can i connect my laptop to the reciver also by hdmi cable to view the blu ray movies and to hear the audio from the home theater system ?

[Suntory_Times]

Originally Posted by alfehdy

thanks RiseDarthVader

can i connect my laptop to the reciver also by hdmi cable to view the blu ray movies and to hear the audio from the home theater system ?

Yep, I can't see why that would be a problem. I personally think using you're laptop will look better as you have more control over image quality (at least from my experience).

[RiseDarthVader]

PS3 is future proof in the sense that if they ever go to the next profiles you don't need to buy a brand new player. While most standalones dont have enough hardware power to upgrade to these profiles.