Blue Ray player vs. PlayStation
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OK so I bought this Blue Ray player last holiday season. It has been great, I bought it with a new Sony LCD TV as well and they combine to be a really nice set. The one thing that I have to say is that this player is about the slowest thing I have ever seen. My family has times it and it takes 65 seconds to start up and open the DVD tray, as well it takes almost 30 seconds to start playing the DVD once put into the machine.
I have loaded all of the updates, and am running the latest firmware on this machine, was a challenge as I use a mac and had to run parallels to get the updates and burn a dvd to install. after all of the updates there was no increase in speed of startup or load time.
OK so why am I writing this posting? I was at a friends house recently and saw the Sony PlayStation in action on a similar model tv. I saw a Blue Ray disk being played and it looked awesome, I saw the machine start up in no time and spit out the disk tray in under 20 seconds. I later found out that the Blue Ray drive in the unit was upgradeable as well, and will likely support the new 2.0 format of Blue Ray. Not sure I need it or not but wow. So I went to Sams last week and the Sony was almost the same price as the PlayStation.
If you are thinking about going the Blue Ray route, I say go for it but do the research and buy the PlayStation even if you never use it as a game console. You will appreciate it in the long run. The game stations will likely integrate more and more into the living space. Good luck in your search.
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