I couldn't wait any longer -- bought a 40-gig Sony Playstation 3 and am thoroughly enjoying it. Fabulous picture and sound even with component cable to four-year-old Sony 1080i screen. All home movies and photos as well as older commercial DVDs look much better, and of course Blu-ray is dazzling.
Great fun playing Warhawk on line too. Tour of Duty 4 is impressive. The games are nice bonuses when main impetus was just getting the best Blu-ray player for the money.
I even prefer the Playstation controller to a standard DVD player remote. Color me a total convert.
One interesting setup problem. Had an irritating hum from the speakers. Did all the usual isolation exercises and Google research. Finally found a post by an electrical engineer who solved the problem. All I had to do was insert a two-pronged non-grounding plug between the Playstation 3 power cord plug and the socket.
That eliminated a superflulous second ground causing a ground loop in my overall home entertainment system. The main ground is from cable, which is enough for one system. Most home entertainment system components apparently have only two-pronged plugs to avoid this problem, but the Sony Playstation 3 has a three-pronged grounding plug that has to have its grounding nullified to avoid audio and apparently sometimes visual interference in home entertainment systems that already are grounded.
But as legalese puts it, I'm not responsible if something is wrong in this solution and you try it on your system and mess up your equipment or yourself.
