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November 19, 2008:

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Playstation 3 40GB With Spider-Man 3 Blu-Ray Now Available

Written by Rivithed

Friday, 02 November 2007

The 40GB Playstation 3 console bundle is now available for $399.99. Included with the 40GB harddrive PS3 is the Spider-Man 3 Blu-ray disc movie. Don't forget that if you buy a PS3 before January 31, 2008, you can get 5 additional Blu-ray movies for free. If you're not a gamer, this is a great deal for entry into HD movies. Having both the Xbox 360 HD DVD player and the PS3 Blu-ray player, I can tell you the Blu-ray gets most of my HD play. While the visual quality between both formats isn't significant, there is a wider selection of Blu-ray rentals available at local Blockbuster stores. But then again, the Transfomers movie isn't available on Blu-ray, if that makes a difference to you.

The 40 GB Playstation 3 Spider-man 3 bundle is available online from retailers such as Gamestop and Amazon.com.

The PS3 40GB has 2 USB ports, 2 less than other models on the market (although not a big deal really) and doesn't support PS2 game compatibility. Here are the specs on the Playstation 3 40GB model:

CPU Cell Broadband Engine(TM) (Cell/B.E.)
GPU RSX(TM)
Sound Dolby 5.1ch, DTS 5.1ch , LPCM 7.1ch, AAC,
others *1 *2
Memory 256MB XDR Main RAM, 256MB GDDR3 VRAM
HDD 2.5? Serial ATA 40GB
I/O USB 2.0 x2
Communication Ethernet X1 (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T)
IEEE 802.11 b/g Included
Bluetooth 2.0 Included
(EDR)
Wireless controller (Bluetooth) Included
AV Output Screen size 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p
HDMI OUT x1 *3
AV MULTI OUT x1
DIGITAL OUT x1
(OPTICAL)
BD/DVD/CD Maximum Read Speed BD 2x (BD-ROM)
Drive DVD 8x (DVD-ROM)
(Read Only) CD 24x (CD-ROM)
Dimensions Approximately 12.75in(W) x 3.86in (H) x
10.8in (D)
Weight Approximately 11 lbs
*1 A device compatible with Linear PCM 7.1 Ch. is required to output 7.1
Ch. audio, supported by Dolby TrueHD or a similar format, from the HDMI
OUT connector.
*2 This system does not support output from the DTS-HD 7.1 Ch. DTS-HD 7.1
Ch. audio is output from a 5.1 or lower channel.
*3 “Deep Color” and “x.v.Color (xvYCC)” defined by HDMI ver1.3a are
supported.