I have a colleague who keeps on telling me that his PS3 can play very nice BD PQ.

He even asked me to get 1, even though I am not a gamer.

How good is PS3 compared to Sigma based Media Streamers like HDI Dune and Popcorn Hour in terms of PQ on Plasma & LCD?

Used a ps3 to my epson tw700 for a while until it needed new lenses..
Only hv 2 games .. all d rest r bds..
Hv retired d ps3 to solely games duty [ which means hardly.. ]
Now usin prime n oppo bd80.. to d jvc hd250.. n ya d ps3 pics r a tad better than d prime.. but I wont go back to another ps3 = dont tink its veri durable as a full time bdp..

2cts
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The differences between the PS3 and the Dune shd be minimal. Both output in YCbCr 4:4:4 and both are more or less neutral to begin with. No artificial sharpening and no major issues with both. The one thing to remember though is the PS3 until recently was defaulting to Deep Colour on, now there is an option to switch it off.

Sigma Designs chipset is as neutral as it gets. I believe Dune has fixed the colour space decoding error that was inherent in the Sigma chipset when files were not flagged for HD. WDTV also issued a firmware fix for that when Sigma released SDK 2.0. I am not sure of the other streamers that use Sigma but the solution to that problem was provided by Sigma themselves.

This post has been edited by anfieldude: Mar 4 2011, 05:30 PM

Please pardon my ignorance, but why is it bad to use Deep Colour?

Thanks for sharing additional info about PS3, bro dirtrun.

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Added on March 4, 2011, 5:42 pmBro anfieldude, I am really expecting you to share out the PQ. Thanks a lot for your kind feedback.

I learnt new things today

This post has been edited by RayKazansky: Mar 4 2011, 05:43 PM

bro,

the WDTV firmware fix u are referring to is which one? the latest one?

i'm using the WDLXTV, the one that has autoframe rate detection. Does this have colour space problem?

Just checked Popcorn Hour's website.

Found the update for my A-200 (Feb 2010).

Firmware Version: 02-02-100208-19-POP-411
"- Patch Colorspace algorithm (for file playback only)"