Sony Playstation 3

Sony Playstation 3

The Sony PlayStation 3 includes a full-featured Blu-ray player as well as one of the most advanced gaming systems available today. It is the preferred Blu-ray platform for many consumers because it allows you to enjoy your Blu-ray movies as well as play exciting games, all in one lean and stylish package.

The Sony PlayStation 3 has full HDMI support and allows you to connect to your monitor or display through a single advanced cable. The HDMI connection was designed to give you the clearest video and audio available today and enables a host of other features. This connection is also required to play Blu-ray protected discs. The Sony PlayStation 3 supports the widest range of screen resolutions available today including 420p, 720p, 1080i and 1080p. This means you will have no problem connecting it to your existing monitor and can rest assured that it will be compatible with any upgrades you do in the future to your video gear. It also supports the 1080p at both a 60fps as well as 24fps frame rate. This is important since it allows you to watch your Blu-ray content at the exact same frame rate that it was recorded. This will provide you a cinema-like quality that is just as good as if you were watching the film in the theater. Other players that can't support the 24fps will have to convert the video to another resolution and the picture quality will be degraded.

The Sony PlayStation 3 also supports your older DVDs and CD and will actually up-scale your DVDs to play at 1080p if you are connected with an HDMI cable. This means that the picture quality will actually be better than if the DVD were played on a standard DVD player.

Another major advantage the Sony PlayStation 3 has over other Blu-ray players is that it is already 2.0 compliant. This new standard for Blu-ray requires that you have a network connection, 1GB of onboard memory for Blu-ray features and 2 secondary decoders. This means that the Sony PlayStation 3 is one of the few Blu-ray players that fits this specification and basically makes it future-proof. In addition to the Blu-ray discs it can play, it is also fully Divx certified and this allows it to play content from elsewhere on your network through streaming.

The Playstation 3 blu-ray player also supports a feature called BD Live. This feature allows you to access additional content for a particular Blu-ray movie over the internet. Because the Playstation 3 blu-ray player is network enabled, it can easily supply this content for you. This content is related to the movie you are watching and can be almost anything, including deleted scenes, bloopers, or interviews with the cast. Some of the newer Blu-ray movies even include multi-player games that you can enjoy thorough the BD Live feature. This feature helps extend the Blu-ray movie experience beyond just watching the film.

When you consider the advanced features and technology that Sony has included in the PS3 3 blu-ray player, it seems like the perfect player for most consumers. When you add to this the fact that it also serves as an advanced gaming system with HDMI 2.0 compatibility, it may be the perfect solution for you Blu-ray needs.