Blueray player versus Playstation 3

[jphegers]

A very nice reply that Naughty thanks that sorts out all my question.

[StarBound]

http://www.ps3za.co.za/forum/showthread.php?t=77852

Above is the link to the ps3za forums and a thread about 3D bluray capabilities with the ps3. This will add to your decision making.

[Sojourn]

So.
Which BluRay device are you getting for your pc?

[jphegers]

quote="Sojourn"]So.
Which BluRay device are you getting for your pc?[/quote]

http://www.ps3za.co.za/forum/showthread.php?t=77852
Not sure yet firs want to sort out the lounge set-up,and waiting to see the new Samy "D" series





Above is the link to the ps3za forums and a thread about 3D bluray capabilities with the ps3. This will add to your decision making.

Thanks Starebound will look at that.

[JollyJamma]

My dad bought a Samsung Blue ray player based on it's price (R1000) and we could and did unlock it to be region free. I'll give you details if you want. I pushed for a PS3 because I wanted the PS3 and GT5 and his words were 'I'll never see the PS3 again'.

The PS3 is more versatile but at 3 times the price it should be.

[naughty]

and we could and did unlock it to be region free

that would probably be region free for DVD only - Blu-ray has only three regions and most discs are not coded for them currently (at least 90% of the discs will play in any region) but to make a player region free for Blu-ray will require hardware changes so you may mistakenly think that yours is region free but that will only apply for the 8 dvd regions

as an example the Oppo BDP 95 costs around R12k and to make it region free you have to replace a daughter board in the player to a modded version and that costs around R5k on its own - so yep Blu-ray region free is not as easy as you may think

the only other method i would know of is to backup the blu-ray using a blu-ray writer where you remove the AACs and region coding as well the BD+ protection and write the disc to a blank - that would be cheaper cos right now blu-ray burners are getting under R1k - and blank discs are around R25 for a 25 gig single layer disc and around R80 for a dual layer 50 gig disc

[StarBound]

Some BRD are not region locked if I am not mistaken. I know the ps3 games arent region locked at all so it is easy to get titles you wouldnt be able to get from europe ect (looking at importing Catherine ) but I havent tried any movies yet.

[StarBound]

http://regionfreemovies.com/region/free

http://bluray.liesinc.net/

2 sites showing region free discs.