Here is my pickle. My PS3 can only be described right now as "dying". It shuts off and the red light flickers. Sometimes it pauses on a video and then freezes and can't be controlled via the controller. It is the old 60GB model with hardware PS2 emulation which some people really want so it has value if it could be fixed. The question is: do I pay to get it fixed or do I go order a new one (~$249 US)? Or do I do something even crazier and get a different media player that can natively play MKVs thus giving me back around 1TB of storage space for my backed up MKVs which I had to convert in order to play? I welcome your thoughts.
****Update****
I bought the Sony s580 model which has the capability to play back mkvs and nearly everything else although it can't do flac. It will be here tomorrow. We'll see how it goes.
http://www.amazon.com/Sony-BDP-S580-Blu-ray-Player-Black/dp/B004K1EOCA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1330032923&sr=8-1
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I fixed a ps3 that had the laser go bad on it. Wasn't that hard. Maybe google the symptoms you are having and see if it is laser related.
ReplyDeleteI never play my ps2 games even though I still have an old ps3 too. If you don't really game or blu ray then probably go for some media player over a new ps3.
Yeah. I think the power supply may be the culprit in the PS3, but I don't know for sure. The blu-raying is the damn thing. There are some companies that make awesome BD/media players like these
ReplyDeleteDune HD:
http://dune-hd.com/hd_players/current/111-dune-bd-prime-3.0.html
Oppo:
http://www.oppodigital.com/blu-ray-bdp-93/
But they are nearly $500. I know alot of the standard $100ish blu ray players from Sony/Panasonic/lg/etc can play media files attached via storage, but I am not sure how good the performance is. Specifically how quickly you can browse through your folders to play back media. Anyway, it is something to look at.
So what are you doing with your old PS3? Anyway i could buy it off you?
ReplyDeletewrite a full review on your new blu ray player when your comfortable with it?
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