Why have a Playstation 3?
- To have a Blu Ray quality and 3D compatible. A lounge of Blu ray player already cost at least half the price of the console. The great thing about the PS3 is that it can be updated easily, ensuring a buyer to have a reader that reads all the Blu-ray market, even if there are changes on protection keys.
- Watch and record HD TV on a hard disk with the Play TV device. An HD TV recorder salon also costs at least two thirds of the price of the Playstation 3. Note that the hard disk of the PS3 easily change to a model of higher capacity, what I did to reach 500 MB .
- Have a diffuser for streaming music and movies stored on my PC. A diffuser like Apple TV already costs half the price of the Sony console.
- Play some games on a big screen (perfect for racing games, for example) or in 3D, or two-player easily, which allows less easily a PC.
In summary, the Playstation 3 is not only a successful game console, but most is a multimedia Swiss Army knife in the living room because it replaces many devices. I first used as a multimedia device, which has the bonus the ability to run video games.
In his faults, I will post the 95 W power consumption in playback Blu ray, against less than 20 W for a dedicated deck, and its corollary, the sound of ventilation. Having already used a PS3 "fat" (the old version), I do not consider the version slim as quieter. The noise level is much the same as if the slim version consumes less, it also has more condensed components and smaller radiators for heat dissipation. A website has studied the issue and even considers that the version slim as slightly noisier.
The Wii has more family fun games or four people, while the Xbox 360 has an aggressive price for rendering almost identical to the PS3 games, a strong community, but with the loss of a Blu ray player. The price level where now stands the Playstation 3, it is a bargain when it was a console "luxury" to its output. The 320 GB version is slightly more expensive than the 160 GB versions. We must take advantage because with the Thai floods of autumn 2011, the shortage of hard drives blew the price of hard drives, which will inevitably consequences for all products that use them.
