HDTV and Home Theater Podcast #254 - Playstation 3 in your Home Theater — Community

#1 Feb 29, 2008 at 2:24 pm

It's pretty clear by now that Blu-ray won the high definition video disk war. By the end of this year HD-DVD could be a distant memory and those who want to watch High Definition movies will need a Blu-ray player. There are a bunch of options out there for those in the market, and the Sony PlayStation 3 has been talked about as the most capable player available. For a long time it was the least expensive way to get a Blu-ray player. That isn't true anymore, but it's still close. It's currently available in two models, a 40 GB model for $399.99 and an 80 GB model for $499.99. Today we'll ignore the gaming side for the most part and look at how the device performs as a home theater device.

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#2 Feb 29, 2008 at 2:57 pm

Slight correction - the 80 gb models are no longer available. I bought one of the last ones in Atlanta 2 weeks ago. Sony has stopped shipping them but hasn't told the retailers why. Suspicion is a new model (maybe a 120gb) is about to debut but it's not out yet.

#3 Feb 29, 2008 at 3:22 pm

As to audio codecs, the PS3 supports the standard Dolby Digital and DTS, and the new Dolby TrueHD (PCM/onboard decoding, not Bitstream) but not the new DTS HD.

What about Dolby Digital + ?

#4 Feb 29, 2008 at 5:31 pm (edited Feb 29, 2008)

Slight correction - the 80 gb models are no longer available. I bought one of the last ones in Atlanta 2 weeks ago. Sony has stopped shipping them but hasn't told the retailers why. Suspicion is a new model (maybe a 120gb) is about to debut but it's not out yet.

Yeah, I just saw that. Got mine just in time.

#5 Feb 29, 2008 at 5:53 pm

What about Dolby Digital + ?

Yep, as far as I can tell it'll do anything Dolby that I can throw at it.