The 360 came with one (and component cables) and also came with another remote with the HD-DVD add-on drive.

Well we don't have any statistics to prove who bought it for movies and who bought it for games. Either way, DVD was also highly touted on the PS2 but it doesn't mean that Sony was going to throw in a remote control out of the goodness of their corporate heart.

Does anyone know when sony is gonna start having ps3 greatest hits? I'm planning to buy the mgs4 ps3 bundle and since ps3 has been out for more than a year now, there has to be some games that would get the greatest hits treatment.

Has anyone heard about the IR2BT for the PS3? This thing is really awesome. I ordered it a couple of weeks ago and received it this past week. It converts an IR signal (from a universal remote) to a bluetooth signal. If you have a universal remote with PS2 remote in its database, or the actual PS2 remote with the eject and power buttons, you can use an IR universal remote for ALL of the buttons on the sony bluetooth remote, including the ability to power down the PS3. I had the Nyko remote thing for awhile....it was ok but had a significant delay between button push and action....also lacked multiple buttons. The IR2BT is cool because as long as it is in the line of your IR remote, it doesn't matter where the PS3 is because it is sending out a bluetooth signal. I really can't say enough good things about it.

Two problems are:

1. it is $55 bucks
2. the guy that makes them is constantly out of stock. he makes 500-700 available at a time and they sell out in a couple of hours.

website is www.ir2bt.com

I broke down and picked up the 40GB PS3 during the Wal Mart $100 gift card sale. I was looking at the back of my TV (Sony HDTV) and I have 2 HD inputs, but there is also a DVI input. Since my 360 takes up one of the regular HD inputs, and the cable uses the other, will I be able to make the most of the Blu player via the DVI input? And, if so, what is the best way to connect the PS3 to it?

When you say "2 HD inputs", I'm guessing you mean component? You don't have HDMI and DVI?

my apologies - the 2 HD inputs are component. There is no HDMI input, only the DVI (it says DVI/HDTV).

My wonder was if the cable company had a different cable that would allow the box to connect to the DVI input and allow the PS3 to use the component, but Comcast hasn't been helpful with that question.

All you need is an HDMI-DVI cable. They're readily available and no more expensive than a regular HDMI cable. Check Monoprice . You'll also need an optical cable to transfer sound.

You also have to be sure that your DVI input is HDCP compliant or an HDMI - DVI connector won't do you any good for the Digital Cable or PS3.

and how will I know that, shumway?

does anyone know if the 80GB MGS4 bundles are the new 65 nm chips? is there some way to tell from the labeling, possibly by checking the power consumption data on the PS3's label?

^^^ what the hell you're talking about... Is this some kind of Xbox 360 and PS3 hybrid or something?

I think all the new ones are 65nm. But I am not 100% sure on that....

So, thinking about picking up the MGS4 Bundle from Best Buy tomorrow. What do you guys think, enough demand to merit my getting up hours before opening time and sitting outside the store? The clerk's rather rude, "how should I know?" response left me a little undecided.

If you want one to keep, I'd say you'd better wait in line. Better to do that unnecessarily than to miss out on it.

If you just want to sell it and are worried about demand, I honestly wouldn't worry about it.

No, no. I'm buying one for keeps. I resent people (no offense to anyone) that buy hot items and then resell them for 50% more than retail. Consider that to be some real petty shit.

So, has anyone ever waited in a line for a game system before? How early should I get there? This location isn't doing a midnight release, so it will be in the morning tomorrow.

As I said in the MGS4 thread, I got my MGS4 PS3 bundle today from Amazon. This is my first PS3, and before today I've never really fooled around with one before. I bought it mainly because of Blu-ray, since I bought my first HDTV a month or two back, so the entire deal about PS3 games is simply secondary for me, a bonus if you will.

While I haven't fooled around with MGS4 yet (trust me, I will, that did play a big part in me getting this bundle), I have been tossing a few Blu-rays and DVDs at it to see how it goes. I have it hooked up with an HDMI cable that I bought at Amazon, the one I asked about earlier and was told it would work fine. For the record, that cable does indeed work great.

Anyway, as a multimedia piece of hardware, I'm blown away by the PS3. The Blu-rays obviously look great, but what is really taking me by surprise is the quality of the SD DVDs I've tried so far. They look way, way, way better than they did on my normal DVD player on my HDTV. I take it that the PS3 upconverts DVDs, because they look great to me. I have the DVD of Once running right now, and even that low budget flick looks very solid.

Would there be anything wrong with using the PS3 as my primary DVD player now? Perhaps using the DVD player just for things like animated stuff and TV shows, as well as the various other region discs that I have that wont work in the PS3 anyway.

This is also my first taste of Blu-ray, or any HD movies. For as good as the SD DVDs look on the PS3, the difference between even that and the actual Blu-ray discs is astounding.

For all of the shortcomings of the PS3 game library (there's only a few games I want MGS4 which I have, Ratchet & Clank, and Uncharted), it totally makes up for it as a DVD/Blu-ray player. I couldn't be happier with my purchase.

welcome to the Blu-ray PS3 family.

Be sure and check out Heavenly Sword as well. I'd also recommend Everyday Shooter & Echochrome on the PSN.

Thanks. Yeah, HS is another one I've had my eye on and if I can get it cheap enough I'll give it a try. I'll look into those two PSN games for sure.

I used the coupon for the free Pain game, and that's fun enough for a few minutes.

I was getting ticked off about not having a power button on the remote control, but found out that if I hold down the PS button in the middle of it for about 3-5 seconds, an option pops up to turn the system off. That's a huge relief for sure.

Brent, if you like we can do a gamesharing thing. I can set it up for you to download either of those two games off my account (I have to reset some of the PSN billing information first) and in exchange I'd download Pain from your account. I have the information on how to do that. There are lots who do game sharing at CAG, but I only would do with someone I know from this site. Are you interested?

Yes, that's the only way to turn the sytem off remotely. It's a pain in the ass, but at least it's possible to do.

Decker, I didn't even know anything like that was possible. Yes I'm interested, shoot me an email or PM.

not sure what firmware version the one you picked up ships with but you might want to double check and see that it is the fw (or higher) that included upconversion ... sounds like you are fine by your accounting but you still may want to check

wayyyy early in the life cycle of the system to say there is any shortcomings with its game library.... I'd much rather have quality at $60 a pop than quantity and I haven't been disappointed with my purchases and even greater things are on the horizon.
in addition to those wants you mentioned, check out MLB 08 The Show if you are even remotely a baseball/sports fan

My system is updated to the latest firmware, so yeah, I'm sure I'm good to go. The DVDs look great!

I know it's way early in the PS3 lifecycle. I'm sure more and more great exclusive games will be released over time. As for MLB 08 The Show, I've heard great things about that one. I downloaded the demo just a little while ago, so I'll give that a try tomorrow.

Any thoughts on using the PS3 as a primary DVD/Blu-ray player? Do any of you actually do that, or do you mainly just use it for Blu-ray and then only the rare DVD every now and then? I just don't want to put too much strain on the system. I have no clue how stable it is or anything like that. I believe either the PS2 or Xbox had a problem where you if used it for DVD playback too often, you could screw up the laser.

I just bought a PS3 as well. How do I check if I have the latest firmware (specifically to upscale regular DVDS)? And if I don't what website can I download it from?