Sony to push PS3 as Blu-ray player

[The News Bot]

In a move designed to boost Blu-ray sales during the festive period, Sony Computer Entertainment is to embark on a PlayStation 3 campaign designed to stress its BD disc playing chops.
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[kourosh]

i thought thats what its main use was for......................playing movies
i hope sony is not thinking people are buying ps3 to play games

[micks_address]

well i'd imagine performance wise and future proofing.. there's not going to be to many blue ray players produced (outside of ones in pcs) that will have as much processing power.. i havent seen them in action but apparently standalone players have much slower disc load times...

[Blindman]

Originally Posted by R Thomson

In a move designed to boost Blu-ray sales during the festive period, Sony Computer Entertainment is to embark on a PlayStation 3 campaign designed to stress its BD disc playing chops.
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Well it's about time. The PS3 is very good choice for bluray because of the constant upgrading and not a bad dvd player either. To convince families (not just game players) to spend this kind of money Sony should have pushed this ages ago.

[brownieeyes]

Lets hope this helps push for HD bitstream output of dts hd.