I'm considering buying a Playstation 3 as a blu-ray player, web browser, and transport for audio out to a DAC.
What got me started with this idea is my friend Bryan suggested it as a Blu-ray DVD player...
And then I was also looking at buying a silent PC purely for audio playback. And the one I want is $2,000. I then learned the Playstation is near silent and costs $400-$500 and is essentially a computer that can have a Windows or Linux operating system. I can load Windows XP, map my network drives with music, and then run Foobar on it the way I like. The PS3 has USB and digital outs, so I'd have my USB DAC connected. And I could connect traditional coax/toslink digital outs as well..
Has anyone done this?
How useable would it be in this configuration? Will I be rebooting, flipping around from one thing to play DVD's, surf the web and play music? I'll hopefully find out if Bryan gets the time to play around with his... but thought I'd ask if anyone had done it here... And if you know anyone that has, please invite them to participate here..
Thanks,
Carl