Well for instance if you own a bluray player that isn't profile 2.0 then it's very unlikely that you can update it to it through firmware since it has hardware requirements on top of software. The ps3 has the hardware requirements right off the bat.
You're right that bluray players are "computers" but their hardware is designed to play blurays (and decode sound) only with no margin for anything else really. They don't have the ability to "do" anything else than that, but they do it well (at least you would hope so... Not the case for all players right now).
The ps3 is primarily a gaming console, thus it's more akin to a full blown computer, with more processing power necessary to accomplish many tasks. Provided its memory and cpu/bus are capable of it you can update its functions easily through software.
For instance at first the ps3 didn't upconvert dvds and that was added later through a firmware update. You couldn't do that with a regular player (by that I mean a bluray player that wouldn't have the ability to upconvert dvds, which all do right now) since it would lack the hardware to do so and doesn't have any processing power available to provide it through software.
Last edited by skyhawk669; 02/19/08 05:55 PM.
