I use a PS3 for my Blu-Ray and Sony sends firmware updates all of the time. Works awesome. Latest update enabled 24 fps for playback. Nice for movies. Gives it a film like quality. Blu-Ray seems to have alot more choices in movies. I hardly ever use my Toshiba HD-DVD player. I use it when the movie isn't available in Blu-Ray. My PS3 upscales standard DVD better also. So yes I can and do recommend Sony products.
I too use a PS3 as my HDDVD playler and I was most impressed with how much better regular DVDs look on it. In fact that jump is farther than the difference between HDDVD and regular DVDs. I still watch mostly regular DVD because my son works at Blockbuster part-time and that's what he brings home. Employees get first crack at the new releases a week before they hit the shelves.
In between updates, you can go to the PS3 store and download Folding@home for the PS3. Incredibly fast, it allows you to help in medical research when not playing games on the PS3.
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The PS3 has been responsible for accelerating the F@H project to over a petaFLOP, becoming the first project to achieve that sustained output.
It’s really neat, and you can contribute to basic medical research that may save your life of a loved one.
Be sure to enter 36120 as your team number and use your FReeper name as your Name ID.
One PS3 by itself will have you in the Top 20 of FReeper folders.