I can understand the Playstation 3 anyone who wants to a looking for a good multimedia system and, secondly, of course, a good gaming console. The eternal price discussion is actually total void
Who does not need a Blu-ray player can of course access to the Xbox360 and thus comes away certainly cheaper. People who like to gamble online should be but again think that because you help the Xbox a paid Gold account required in the Playstation Network which is completely free to play.
The connection with a multimedia server and stream content works fine, unless the server has decent computing power. My good graphics card is finally broke me and now I have a scruffy 8MB bridging solution in it, yet be small movies can stream smoothly. For larger one already required then a slightly better graphics card in the computer.
A USB hard disk can also be easily connected. You can browse these then on the specific contents. Here a tip might note: go to the USB flash drive and then "Triangle button" -> "Show All". Thus, you get the complete folder structure of the external audio source is displayed and the PS3 does not have only the folders with matching content (photo to photo, video to video, etc.) can be calculated. Here not get confused: If the USB hard drive is selected, for example, via the "Video", even video files are displayed in the folders, folder without showing videos: "No content voranden". The same applies to "music" and simply search "Photo", always in the respective category. Sounds easy but is relatively inconvenient to self-explanatory if you've done it once.
The connection to the local router is not a problem, in the initial configuration, all necessary data is queried. For me it is connected via Wi-Fi and pulls content from the network, or Playstation goals faster than my computer. Simply SSID and WPA Key on hand, everything else makes the Playstation itself. Possibly still take care, that the MAC of your Playstation is also free in the filter of the router, if you connect via Wi-Fi.
Super is also the Playstation goals. Here movie and game trailers, skins, themes, etc., can be downloaded for free all manner. The registration is also free. Here as an indication perhaps of the US Store: if you do creates an extra profile and you eintragt residing in the USA, gets your Zugruff on the US store, with 5x as much choice as in Germany and massively playable demos.
The performance in video etc is absolutely flawless, start videos from eg a USB drive and stop without delay (when streaming course not). Also, the coils in the video or the "jump" function with small thumbnails in every minute is great.
View pictures on the DVD player was formerly always quite meager and boring, on the PS3 takes a different view from. On a nice big HD TV with one of 5 different viewers (slide, photo album, etc), makes viewing a lot of fun, is also well sharpened properly and the images come validity super high resolution for. I as an amateur photographer place high demands on image quality, and this is really not to be despised. Which, of course, but also lies on TV.
The Internet browser is quite nice, unfortunately scrolls the page usually a little too fast. The zoom function by pressing the right analog stick is great, because you can get everything nice get close. Throughout a browser aufm PC but simply more enjoyable and comfortable. So rather stick to it. You can on the PS-browser but also download files and save them directly to disk, which eg with addons or themes is very nice, because you will not only have to get over this stuff with NEM Stick.
It's also great that you can launch the console from the couch with the controllers and finish. The batteries last quite long and can be recharged via a USB cable to the console.
Downloads from the Playstation gates can also be performed in the background, so you can safely meanwhile devote to other things.
For Blu-ray player, I can not say much, except that it takes place tidy my Blu-rays and the quality on a Full HD TV is simply breathtaking. DVD suddenly looks almost like VHS, if you get used to time the sharp image of the Blu-ray movies and games.
Less Toll is as follows:
-no included HDMI cable
Installation of games takes every now and then quite long.
Hard drive must be formatted in FAT32
-A Few video formats can not be played, all MPEG and WMV are not a problem, AVI does not work after enabling the most but all.
-The Browser supports Flash, so therefore youtube, but not all major video sites because the Flash versions and software is also different there. But something you look anyway rather from the PC.
-HTTPS Pages make the PS3 browser also problems at the latest when logging in, although cookies are allowed.
