Just found this pretty decent article and thought it might of interest to my fellow AHers. http://dvice.com/archives/2009/12/how-blu-ray-sto.php One of several point in article is the fact ps3 will be able to support 3d blue-ray, while stand-alone players won't (most of them anyway) I'm glad i was telling people to ps3 as their br player since the prior is more future proof.