I wish this was the case, but they said they'd have to go through and do backward compatibility title by title, and that it wouldn't be worth the investment to do so

Ditto, Blu-Ray rocks in general if you are ok with the media prices, if you have the setup, find a way to get it... PS3 or otherwise.

Do you have a 360? In a multi-console home, I'm not sure how a PS3 would rate that high other than for hardcore MGS/LBP/exclusive players, what do you think?

Guessing you don't actually have a 360 then, the only size limit was on Live Arcade games, which was like 150mb or something.. there have since been almost 300mb Live arcade games. I also believe one of the add on packs for GRAW was over 1gb... there is no limit on patch/DLC size....

Hah, that's a good idea.

It should work, since they upgraded the version of flash. Last time I tried, I could login, but couldn't play anything.

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I'll be home in 3-4 hours and it will be the first time i ever open the PS3 browser... to try and play Pandora.com

Will probably show it to my wife too though... she routinely catches up on shows like Supernatural via the network websites.

Updating the browser is probably one of the biggest additions outside of trophies since launch IMO... don't use it myself, but recognize it as being a potentially big deal given the various options it brings... now they need to bring (or at least announce the coming of) Netflix support.

I love my PS3! and EVERY game for my PS2 I've tried has played in it - WORKS! I've just had to adjust my controller settings! ha! imagine that!

I've never tried an xbox so I can't compare.

I do, however, have a wii. I do love my wii too, but there is no comparison. Esp, when it comes to online gaming.

I've not had ANY problems watching movies or streaming them f/my puter to my PS3.

I was debating which to get - an xbox or a PS3 and I went with the Ps3 because of the blue ray.

Hope this helps

I'm going to go knock on wood now!

Sony is also coming out with a bluetooth wireless keypad for the PS3 on 11/26
to make entering text on line easier The keypad attaches right to your controller.

Gamestop.com - Buy PS3 Wireless Keypad - Playstation 3

Sweet! Thanks for the info. Just what I need to give PS3's online browser another shot without using one of my 2 USB ports for a keyboard.

I hope an impending announcement is the reason MediaMall shortened the Beta time frame and started making us pay...then again, it could be due to the 360's launch next week of Netflix streaming.

Like others I also originally got mine for Blu-Ray playback and it does a good job. I also stream video to it via DLNA from my desktop upstairs. I'm not a huge gamer, though I do like RTS and some RPG (both of which really are lacking on some consoles though if I had a 360, I'd probably get Fable2.) Little Big Planet is a lot of fun and as I had posted in another thread a good couple (and even family) type game. Graphics are really good, however seems many of the games I tried are 720p vs 1080p. When I had my 34" HD Ready CRT it only supported 1080i or 480p so the 720P games looked bad when it scaled to 480p (not sure why it wouldn't go to 1080i.) Now that I got the Samsung LCD that can do 720P, they definitely look better. It's not so much a fault of Sony, however figured worth noting as many ads push the 1080p feature of it. Don't get me wrong there are 1080p games and they look great, but seems the games I always want to play aren't. Not sure about Fallout 3, but that's next on my list to try after Little Big Planet.

I like the USB and Btooth capabilities. I hooked up a cheap btooth headset I got off Woot and it paired easier than my cell phone. Also the ability to use it for browsing and use a btooth mouse are also a nice plus. It also works well with my rev 1 PSP I got a couple years back when I was doing more travel for work. The built in Wifi is useless for me and I wish I could figure out how to turn it completely off. I thought I had, but it still shows up.

The Playstation network as others have mentioned can be really sluggish. Though I was suprised over the weekend as I was pulling down updates very very quickly (I was getting 16mb/s downloads), which I have never seen during peak times. Maybe a fluke or maybe they are listening to the bandwidth gripes. All my buddies have 360s, so unfortunately can't play online games with them as I don't have one. However now that we are all married and some with kids, not much time for that anymore anyways.

-Mike

I just bought one this weekend at Walmart. $399 - $100 Walmart Gift Card for $299.

Unfortunately, I had to turn around and get on a plane to go to Seattle for meetings, so I haven't opened the box yet.