Stand alone or 2nd PS3

[Descendency]

PS3 definitely. Supports BD 2.0 standards. The stand-alone player may not.

[Icemage]

Originally Posted by dz06lt

So im leaning towards the 2nd PS3 so next what i would like to know is are there any bundles coming our way possibly for MGS release? I plan to get it anyway and if can get it in a bundle it might be worth it

There's an 80GB bundle coming to the US for MGs4. I don't know if there's one coming for the 40GB, however.

[InsightGoalie]

Originally Posted by Descendency

PS3 definitely. Supports BD 2.0 standards. The stand-alone player may not.

The best part is it not only supports 2.0 but because it's the PS3 it will receive updates often and probably first. Thats the sole reason I'd say PS3 is the best BD player on the market. Not that I'm willing to pay $400 to watch movies...

[Romanc]

I say this depends on how serious you are about your high-def movies. If you hook it up to a serious surround system you might appreciate the stand-alone's better sound processing. This is the PS3's only drawback as a blu-ray player. If you just hook it up and play through the TV's speakers or use a medium to cheap surround system you are much better off with a second PS3 - comparatively cheaper and more upgradable. Its picture quality is on par with stand-alones.

[Icemage]

Originally Posted by Romanc

I say this depends on how serious you are about your high-def movies. If you hook it up to a serious surround system you might appreciate the stand-alone's better sound processing. This is the PS3's only drawback as a blu-ray player. If you just hook it up and play through the TV's speakers or use a medium to cheap surround system you are much better off with a second PS3 - comparatively cheaper and more upgradable. Its picture quality is on par with stand-alones.

Actually the PS3 performs great at audio too. The only weakness it has in that arena is that it doesn't have analog connectors, so if you have a non-HDMI receiver, then the audio has to go through optical, which isn't such a good option.

With an HDMI-capable receiver, however, the PS3's audio performance matches that of any standalone unit on the market (exception made for the handful of units that can bitstream DTS-High Definition Master Audio, but I have it on very good authority that the PS3 will eventually receive a firmware update to decode DTS-MA audio codec). Otherwise it handles LPCM and Dolby TrueHD flawlessly, and still provides a quite excellent DTS-1.5Mbps core on DTS-HD HR/MA encoded Blu-rays.

[Into-The-Fog]

think about it this way, 8 player CoD4/warhawk in your house?

[dz06lt]

Originally Posted by Into-The-Fog

think about it this way, 8 player CoD4/warhawk in your house?

This is not a bad point

Sorry but I would have to say

Isnt this really a no brainer?

[Vectorferret]

With the price of BluRay players, and the fact that the PS3 can very easily be updated (for new features and spec updates) it's probably the best option. Also, as it always has storage, USB and networking, any BluRay specs that actually need hardware rather than just software probably use hardware the PS3 already has.

[PirateThom]

Definitely going to confirm PS3 now it's a bonafied 2.0 Blu-ray player with wireless as opposed to the ethernet other 2.0 Blu-ray players will probably require.