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Once and for All: Why Are People Objecting to Buying "A Game Console" for Blu-Ray?

Posted by Cosmic Closet on January 7, 2009 at 11:23:57:
I really am getting rather tired of all this silliness where a thread gets going on the shortcomings of the current 'regular' Blu-Ray players, and yet the very people who complain about the players will say they won't buy the PS3 'because it is a game console' or similar....

Now, around here, people like things that work; we all love good Hi-Fi and video playback. So why is there this resistance?

Is it an age thing? People don't want something in their stately set-up that 'the young punks' use for silly games?
I am 48 years old. I never have and most likely never will touch a video game. When we got the Panny 700 58-inch, after reading about all the various standalone players out there, the only one that won and won again was the PS3. It has performed flawlessly, consistently, and I have yet to have it reject or refuse a properly mastered disc.

I am curious at the kind of 'open-ended' resistance to a unit that demonstrably is a solid performer where it counts (DVD/Blu-Ray playback) so at the risk of digging up dirt that's been dug many times before, what are the concrete reasons that you folks don't want the PS3, and if the reason is that 'it's a game console', why is that a deal-breaker?

Please take this in the spirit intended; I just think it might be a good idea for the answers to be lined up once and for all, since this subject goes around and around...

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