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Curses! Soiled again!

great pic!

For what it's worth, the PS3 delivers more value than a standalone player. It can basically do everything. But you pay a little more for it.

Just like DVD decks, the difference in quality between components is shrinking. Blu ray deck sellers are attracting buyers with their internet-ready add-ons, like Pandora, YouTube, Netflix, etc.

I own 3 Blu Ray players - a Sammy BD-p1400, a BD-p3600 and an Insignia (Best Buy house brand) NS-BRDVD3. The 3600 does Netflix, Youtube, Blockbuster and Pandora. The Insignia does Netflix & some others after firmware update. The 1400 does just blu (it is not a profile 2.0 player).

The difference in quality between the Insignia and the Sammies are unintelligible when playing a blu disc. The 3600 and the BRDVD3 each stream netflix at what appears to me to be the same quality, although I actually prefer the functionality of the Insignia Netflix interface. The 3600 does a slightly better job of upconverting DVD discs (and it connects wirelessly to the internet).

My suggestion would be to research some of the value decks out there, including Insignia's NS-WBRDVD, which connects to the internet wirelessly. It can be gotten from BB or on the gray market for ~$150 - $175. If dvd performance is VERY important, consider a "name" brand unit over the Insignias (reports indicate that the Insignia decks are made at the same factory that assembles LG and Samsung players, and is a hybrid of the two). If Netflix streaming is a top priority, I can definitely recommend the BRDVD3, which loads blu rays faster than either of my other players, too. Beware of lemons - but assuming you get a good one, you'll be happy.

I was home at lunch, and without even checking for it there's a Netflix icon under the video section of the XMB now. I guess it was on a timer to automatically show up. Didn't have time to do anything with it, can't wait to try when I get home this evening.

Downloaded the netflix app at lunch

Diskless streaming for Wii has reportedly been released, too.

Now, where's that Android app?

Netflix interface seems nice on PS3...

I still see room for improvement. I can only search for titles of movies, cant search for actors, etc.

Also, I like being able to take the lists of genres and place them in a sortable list and sort by date, rating, etc.

Since these two features are lacking I will probably still use the computer to add most movies to my disc queue. The ability to search at all is nice though as this feature is missing from the xbox.

I would also like to be able to search for movies in surround and/or 1080p... how you find those buried in the collection of streaming movies I have no idea.

I picked a movie and it started up about as fast as the xbox streams do.

Overall very impressed and will be using ps3 instead of xbox to stream movies now. My xbox is so friggin' loud that this will be great.

With the disc it was possible to know if a movie had an HD stream or not. That's not presented to the user until the movie is playing now, and then only if one hits the Display button (that also will tell if it has surround sound). Would be nice to know up front.

I do like it more than the disc though.

I installed the PS3 Netflix app on the PS3 today.

The PS3 in the family/theater room.

Previously I only streamed Netflix movies from my very private home office PC.

Did you know "Recently watched" migrates from the PC to the PS3?

This could get awkward.

It's recently watched on the Netflix account, not machine specific. So yeah, be careful.