My good friend works with some of the best hifi equipment in the world. He put the ps3 up against many of the $1000 blu-ray players by using a specific DVD designed to test how much of a strain is put upon players by different work loads. The ps3 passed them all quite easily. The high end blu-rays players all failed at least one of the tests performed on them. He has a $150,000 sound system in his home and uses a ps3 as his bluray player. He actually has three of them, one on each of his systems, and doesn't even play games.