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The Business Blog at Intuitive.com
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Dave Taylor has been involved with the Internet since 1980 and
is widely recognized as an expert on both technical and business
issues. He has been published over a thousand times, launched four Internet-related
startup companies, has written twenty business and technical books and holds both an MBA and MS Ed.
Dave maintains three weblogs, The Business Blog at Intuitive.com, focused on business and
industry analysis,
the eponymous
Ask Dave Taylor
devoted to tech and business Q&A and The
Attachment Parenting Blog,
discussing topics of interest to parents.
Dave is an award-winning speaker, sought after conference and workshop participant and
frequent guest on radio and podcast programs.
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The secret problem with the Sony Playstation-3 as a Blu-Ray player..
In my new reinvented media center, I have things well configured at this point, with a 40" Sony LCD TV, a Philips Soundbar simulated surround sound Dolby speaker set, a super-slick all-region, PAL + NTSC Toshiba DVD player (bought on ahem the grey market) and a Sony Playstation-3 as the HD video player with its built-in Blu-Ray capability.
Except there's one fly in the ointment, one problem with the Sony PS3 that really amazes me and makes me wonder how they ever shipped the device in the first place: it runs way too hot and when its internal fan kicks in, the background noise is so high that I can no longer hear the movie I'm watching without jumping up the volume quite a bit.
I bought a Nyko Intercooler third-party cooling assembly that snap onto the PS3 (funny that those are in the market at all. Speaks volumes of the pervasiveness of this design flaw from Sony) but that's noisy too, so while it ostensibly helps, I still have a background whine from multiple fans that is similar to the background noise in the airport terminal when a jet taxis off to the runway. (I kid you not)
So my question: how many people have encountered this problem with the Playstation-3 and have suddenly realized that it cannot, in fact, be a busy component in a media center because of the ambient noise problem?
Me? I'm drooling over the LG BH200 HD player. Full support for Blu-Ray and HD-DVD. LG? You listening? You can send one to our offices and I promise we'll review it and write about it. :-)
Hi Dave,
I don't have this trouble with my PS3 at all - it's quite quiet, I was surprised that it is quieter than the Wii or X360. Did you purchase it fairly recently? I wonder if over time they have changed parts suppliers and the more recent models are noisier (mine is one of the original NTSC units). One thing you could try, and I'll admit it is fairly annoying, is to get some soundproofing mats and position them in the outflow from the fan. It will help to a degree. The only other possibility for loud equipment is to put it in a well-ventilated enclosure...
(full disclosure, I used to work for the PlayStation division of Sony in the US)
---Mark
Dave,
I have the same audio problem. It sounds like a humming noise and is very annoying plus I get a perpetual horizontal wave while using this thing. I paid alot of money and I am very disappointed that I can't enjoy this thing. Please advise on what to do.
Thanks,
Steve
Hello my playstation3 is not loading what do i have to do and what is the address do i have to send it to
Posted by: Jeremy on February 18, 2008 10:33 AMi have a playstation 3 and it's working so far so gud, i havn't found any problem in my platstation,and the sound is prefect.
Posted by: live conferencing on July 19, 2008 4:17 AM
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