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87% of PS3 Owners Watch Blu-ray on Console, Study Finds
Is anyone recommending the PlayStation 3 as the best Blu-ray player for their customers? It doesn't have RS-232 and has crappy IR connectivity, but it does have Ethernet… View this discussion thread.
The "2008 Annual Report on the Home Entertainment Industry" says the PS3 will remain the driving force behind Blu-ray sales until 2009.
Microsoft, which did not integrate a HD DVD drive into the Xbox 360 sold only 316,000 HD DVD add-ons for the console in 2007, the reports says.
PS3 sales, in large part because of its Blu-ray compatibility, were close to 3 million by the end of 2007.
And that's just one of the reasons the PS3 should be the Blu-ray player you install in your customers' home theater.
The report also says Blu-ray will outsell standard DVDs in 2012, generating more than $9.5 billion in sales.
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I picked up the ps3 back in 07 primarily for the Blu Ray to watch on my front projection, it was a no brainer since I was a casual gamer, and now that games are rolling out for the system its even better than it was before.
I wonder the percentage of PS3 users that use their systems for gaming…
I notice the 10 reasons link doesn’t say the ps3’s the only BD player whose load to play time doesn’t blow chunks - is that not the case anymore (it certainly used to be) or is that something sony doesn’t like people mentioning?
For those of us with a lowly one-room setup, the PS3 kicks butt. I just hooked mine up to my HDMI-capable AVR, and shoved in a copy of a movie. In less than 20 seconds, I was watching the flick. Total time from unboxing to watching was about 5 min. Many of us don’t need all of the fancy networking or multi-room remote controls. It might not be the best for a networked house system, but for the rest of us, it shines compared to the competition.
I am using a PS3 in a dedicated theater as the BD source. There is one large flaw-control. The PS3 is a Bluetooth device so controlling via standard universal remotes is not a good option. I am using a PS2 adapter and controlling some basic functions via IR but still have to pick up the PS3 control sometimes when I watch movies.
I could see that since a bunch of my friends that did purchase a PS3 did so for the Blu-Ray mostly.