nine said:
Honestly, it's worth it for that alone based on the price. And you get a sweet game and multimedia system for free!
Yah, I have a 60GB drive with nothing on it, so I've been ripping some of my favorite CDs @ 320AAC -> PS3 to get the best sound quality. I'm running fiber to my Yamaha receiver.
As for a gaming system, I still think the Xbox 360 is better. I'm hooked on achievements, plus GOW kicks anything Sony has to offer right now. I guess only time will tell when some real 1080p games come out for the PS3.
I will say this though the PS3 does an amazing job of 480p regular DVDs. It doesn't upconvert yet, but it's the best progressive DVD player out there, IMO. So when they finally update it with upconversion I have high expectations, it has 10x times the processing power of any other upconverting DVD player.
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