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terzaghi - I do have Forza2, but I haven't played it a lot. I need to give it more attention as it's a great game. Better than GT4 IMO. That South Park about WoW was one of the best in recent times. pwned! Did you see the Guitar Hero episode?

CV - Sounds like the Wow guy has quite the addictive personality!

HomeDad - I got the demo of Burnout Paradise and have all the prior releases. I did notice they stepped up the gameplay quite a lot in this newest iteration. I agree, the graphics are fantastic. I'll probably have to pick it up soon.

For those who haven't heard, OPPO has announced that they will be making a Blu-ray player. They said its in the very early stages of development right now, so who knows whow long it will be until its available, but given their reputation for making top of the line players for (relatively) rock bottom prices, people might just want to hold off for a bit to see what their player will be like. I know I'm going to.

Nice. If it does both SACD and DVD-Audio, all the better.

It didn't take Microsoft long....

Microsoft to release a BR player

These players look like they might have some potential Sony

But are they the final release

I originally purchased my PS3 back in November solely for blu-ray. Since then, I've found the little extras fantastic: the wireless, the streaming of video from a PC, and now the games. I didn't think I'd play the games much but the family is having fun playing them together.

With the cheap $13 USB/IR remote I got my Harmony remote working with it (except for turning it off/on). And for movies I haven't had a single problem. I was second guessing myself whether to purchase the PS3 for blu-ray but now I'm completely satisfied with it.

I do find myself getting into the games more and more though. Already bought a few more titles and have some on pre-order. I hadn't played a game on a set top console since the original Nintendo. I never knew the graphics could be this good. And with the sound coming through the Axioms, watch out.

So, I guess I'd say I'd recommend the PS3.

The only issue with the 40 gig version of the PS3 is the fact that it is not backwards compatible with PS1 and PS2 games. If this is not an issue, then the 40 gig will be fine. I still have a ton of games for the previous Playstation's so I will not get the 40 gig version. I'll wait for the new one to come out.

FYI: I believe at the time of it's launch, the PS3 was the only BD player on market that was capable of the HDMI 1.3 standard. Not that anyone was taking advantage of it yet, but it was nice to a company plan ahead.

I too would recommend a player that can upgrade on the fly through a network.

Question: I also thought that the IR adapter for the PS3 could turn the unit off. Turning it on was the only thing that had to be done manually for the simple fact the USB port the adapter was plugged into did not have power when the unit was off, hence you couldn't turn it on. Since the adapter has power with the unit on, I thought you could still turn it off with a universal remote?

I'm not sure if that's possible, at least I haven't figured it out yet.