Q) I'm on a budget but wish to enjoy PS3 in HD rather than my old TV. What are my cheapest options?
A) Get a wide-screen LCD monitor ~RM700. Make sure it has DVI(HDCP) or HDMI input and supports 720p. Buy a DVI-to-HDMI cable. Get a budget 2.1 speaker set if needed.

i just bought 2nd hand ps3 fatty tday..for few bucks
HDMI output faulty, btw...i use components AV Red Yellow White cable type, so can display on my TV...
but i found out display is not that good like wht i saw @ shop & youtube ..not sharp n crisp...so is this bcoz of normal AV cable?

what if i want:


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my TV already have DVI input, but my PS3 HDMI port faulty...so cannot use this cable type...any idea?

thank sifoos! 

as a general tech wise, if you know that your hdmi port is already faulty then anything you put in should have nothing comes out, of course you can buy 1 and try it out though.

if not mistaken there is no component cable for ps3. i never see an original component for ps3 too. i might be wrong.

ps2 component cable can be use on ps3..

3rd party component cable are easy to get especially in KL

oh yeah. but don't expect it comes out to be as smooth and nice as hdmi as is still using av port. try to use tv or lcd less than 32 inch then i think the picture will be ok.

What are DVI, HDMI and Component Video?

DVI/HDMI and Component Video are all video standards which support a variety of resolutions, but which deliver the signal from the source to the display in very different ways. The principal important difference is that DVI/HDMI deliver the signal in a digital format, much the same way that a file is delivered from one computer to another along a network, while Component Video is an analog format, delivering the signal not as a bitstream, but as a set of continuously varying voltages representing (albeit indirectly, as we'll get to in a moment) the red, green and blue components of the signal.

Both DVI/HDMI and Component Video deliver signals as discrete red, green, and blue color components, together with sync information which allows the display to determine when a new line, or a new frame, begins. The DVI/HDMI standard delivers these along three data channels in a format called T.M.D.S., which stands for "Transmission Minimized Differential Signaling." Big words aside, the T.M.D.S. format basically involves a blue channel to which horizontal and vertical sync are added, and separate green and red channels.

Component Video is delivered, similarly, with the color information split up three ways. However, component video uses a "color-difference" type signal, which consists of Luminance (the "Y", or "green," channel, representing the total brightness of the image), Red Minus Luminance (the "Pr," or "Red," channel), and Blue Minus Luminance (the "Pb," or "Blue," channel). The sync pulses for both horizontal and vertical are delivered on the Y channel. The display calculates the values of red, green and blue from the Y, Pb, and Pr signals.

Both signal types, then, are fundamentally quite similar; they break up the image in similar ways, and deliver the same type of information to the display, albeit in different forms. How they differ, as we'll see, will depend to a great extent upon the particular characteristics of the source and display devices, and can depend upon cabling as well.

So, which is better, DVI or component? HDMI or component? The answer--unsatisfying, perhaps, but true--is that it depends. It depends upon your source and display devices, and there's no good way, in principle, to say in advance whether the digital or the analog connection will render a better picture. You may even find, say, that your DVD player looks better through its DVI or HDMI output, while your satellite or cable box looks better through its component output, on the same display. In this case, there's no real substitute for simply plugging it in and giving it a try both ways.

ok after much testing. my ps3 freezes one time only over an extended of time when its turned off. However it does not happen when i decided to reformat the hdd with no data cache, psn games, save files  or anything else, just plain vanilla. It doesnt hang after i switched on after i left it off for a couple of hours. When i restored my back up, it freezes back.

I'm thinking theres probably some data that was on the backup has some problem. I know this started when i played dc universe online and that game has some occasional hiccups here and there with the lag and the constant data loading and at one point it hang and i had reboot the console. Hopefully i can find the main culprit behind this freeze x_x.

How much is a PS3 system now? I have a first-gen PS3 (as in, first release) and it's giving me so much problems... Current problem is that it works sometimes, and at other times when I try to on, it just beeps 3 times and switches off... occasionally i get a YLOD as well... Thinking of just getting a new PS3 instead of fixing the current one...

cukup la. if you're like me, those big game that install after finish the game i delete it. m8 to play again next time only install again. and if you don't buy psn game

Just got myself a PS3 Scarlet Red!!! It's still easy to find?? Coz when I asked, the salesman told me it was a reserved unit but the pre-owner never claim it for 1 week ady so he sell it to me, and yea, free HDMI cable too was told that this limited edition shouldn't come with the HDMI but he just give me, so is that true??

isn't bluray movie = bluray game? what's the mechanism that damages the ps3?

Don't know. Got some rumors say that PS3 should use for play game only, dun use it to watch bluray movie wo

YLOD is unavoidable, it just matter of time. so why don't enjoy while it lasted?

slim ps3 does have a lower chance of YLOD but that also depends on how you use it. if you play 24/7 like you have no life, then it will sure get YLOD. 

That might be the sound of a lens dying.. suggest you take it for servicing or replacement

Do you see any scratches on your disc after playing?

Mine okay d.. I D.I.Y my ps3 slim lens so now no more noise
and can read all disc perfectly! before this, cannot read
dual-layer disc so can;t play games like uc3, gow3, mgs4, ffxiii etc.

cost to change lens i think around RM200 to 300

i fixed it myself, so just have to pay for the spare part
cost just rm80

Mine okay d.. I D.I.Y my ps3 slim lens so now no more noise
and can read all disc perfectly! before this, cannot read
dual-layer disc so can;t play games like uc3, gow3, mgs4, ffxiii etc.

cost to change lens i think around RM200 to 300

i fixed it myself, so just have to pay for the spare part
cost just rm80