Quote Originally Posted by deadlegion View Post
I get the picture.......plenty of people bought PS3 consoles over here initially because they were a good deal compared to Blu-Ray players at the time (plus they play games of course).

But........you use your PC and your PS3 together to do the job my $100 player does with an external drive?

You could sell your console (with games), buy a Blu-Ray player and have money left over for like HD porn or something
I'll probably do that eventually, but the really cool thing about PS3 Media Server is it transcodes movies on the fly if they aren't in a compatible format. It converts everything to H.264 and streams it.