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Hi everyone. After reading Alan's question of the day a while back, I've been looking forward to seeing reviews of the new Samsung BD player. Has anyone seen it available in Canada yet, and/or has anyone purchased one and can provide a review?

thanks!

I thought it was coming out in June.

I'm holding out for Oppo's upcoming unit.

Now is the time to buy if it were me. Walmart is offering a free $100 gift card with the 40gig PS3.

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?dest=9999999997&product_id=10039674

If you purchase this online and get a Sony credit card. When you get your PS3 you can return it to your local Walmart and put it on your Sony credit card and save $100.

So, you get a PS3 for $300 with a free $100 Walmart gift card. The PS3 is the most complete blu-ray player out right now and will continue to be via firmware updates. With this deal it is the cheapest as well.

- Nick

Hold out for another year?

Nick, do you play games and watch BD on your PS3? I've only played one movie on the PS3 (for about 5 min) because my Samsung 1400 is just fine. But when I play games on the PS3, the fan kicks in and is VERY VERY loud. Almost as loud as the Xbox360 for those of you that have X360.

When you play BD, does the fan kick in?

I've heard some speculation that the old 20/60 gig PS3's had loud fans, and the new 40/80 gig ones have quieter fans do to system component shrinks, better fan, etc.. but no one who says they have done a direct comparison.. ymmv

Mine's the 40GB variety. I'll do an SPL and post it.

I watch Blu-ray's, dvd's and play games on my PS3. I have the 60 gig model and sit about 8 feet away from it in an open cabinet. The PS3 has two fan speeds from my experience: low and high. I like when the fan is on low since it masks the slight hum of my Pioneer plasma and it is not distracting. High speed is distracting at times. It seems to me when I watch blu-ray's and play ps3 games the fan speed stays low. When I watch dvd's within about a half hour the fan speed goes to high speed and stays on high. I am guessing that the processing for the upconverting is possibly the cause for the fan speed to go high. There are two possible solutions to the noisy fan that I have come up with.

First of all, I can move the PS3 into my office where I have my dvd collection so that I don't have to listen to it. My office is right next to my living room where I use the PS3. All I have to do is get a 25 ft hdmi cable from monoprice and drill a couple holes. The remote control and controllers are operate on R.F. so the signals will pass through walls and doors. Then there is no fan noise at all. From what I remember, when Gene at audioholics tested cables at Monster was that Monoprice passed 1080p at 60fps at 25 feet but not longer than that (this was from the avrant where Gene went to Monster to test all sorts of different cables).

Or secondly, if my thoughts about the fan only going on high with dvd's is correct then my other option is getting an Oppo upconverting player to use for dvd's. The PS3 is a good upconverting player (Gene said this past week on avrant that it scored 100/130 on Audioholics/HQV bench testing). But, I need a good region free dvd upconverter that will play PAL discs, my old one has quite a soft picture. If I do this then I don't have to move the PS3 at all.

- Nick

I just replaced my 60GB PS3 with a 40GB PS3 this weekend and there is definitely a night and day difference. In fact, after great initial results with much lower fan noise (while I know this sounds crazy), to test the new 40GB model, I watched a 2 hour movie with the PS3 sitting in the box it came in to see how it performed in limited ventilation. Even then, the fan never came anywhere close to making the noise my 60GB does, and it also ran MUCH cooler.

With my 60GB PS3, during medium to quiet movie scenes, I can hear it running from ~11 feet away through a closed closet door. The 40GB model is totally different.