Sony PlayStation 3

Welcome to the next generation of gaming technology. With the Cell Broadband Engine, high-definition Blu-ray player, hard disk drive (HDD) storage and the everyday growing list of available games, you get more of everything that makes a gaming system great. More enemies. More challenges. More realism. And more versatility.

More and more games. More hot titles.
The list of games for the PlayStation 3 is growing every day. From some of the industry's hottest franchises, like SOCOM, to some of the most anticipated games of the year like LittleBigPlanet, the PS3 system delivers the goods. Whatever flavor it is that you're searching for, the PS3 system's got it. Get exclusive PlayStationNetwork downloadable games, PS one games and more to play on the PS3 system from the PlayStationStore. Some features of the PlayStationNetwork are: online multiplayer gaming, texting and chatting with friends, voice chat, previews and free playable demos of upcoming games, exclusive downloadable games and watchting high-definition movie and game trailers.

Video
Visit the Playstation Store and rent or purchase your favorite movies and TV shows. Watch movie trailers before you buy or rent something. Watch DVDs or Blu-ray discs from your collection or watch video content you’ve saved on a compatible USB device.

Blu-ray Movies
A whole new world of entertainment. Pristine, high-definition picture. Theater-quality sound. Blu-ray provides an experience so intense that it defies previous conceptions of home entertainment. And it's built to last, with BD-Live (Blu-ray Disc Profile 2.0), so you can enjoy the newest entertainment for years to come. The word "movie" just might not be big enough anymore. Some Blu-ray key features: highest definition, theater quality audio, extreme storage capacity and compatibility with your existing DVD movie collection.

Music
The PlayStation 3 system gives you more ways to enjoy your music collection. You can rip your favorite cds to the system’s hard disk drive or connect a compatible USB device to listen to it. When connecting to the internet you can collect detailed album information. Create playlists of your favorite songs and listen in the order you like best. Experience it all in full 7.1 surround sound.

DLNA
DLNA is a global collaboration of hundreds of the most trusted brands, all working together to help make computers, gaming systems, and mobile and electronic devices work together seamlessly. The PlayStation 3 system is DLNA Certified, which means it can share and exchange media with other DLNA-compatible digital devices. Computers, digital video recorders and TVs? No problem. You can stream media content from a DNLA-enabled device right to your PS3™ system.

Add in your PSP system and take DLNA to the next level. Using Remote Play, connect your PSP system to your PlayStation 3 system from a wireless hotspot and access all of your DLNA-compatible digital devices - your PS3 system, your personal computer or even your digital camera - on your PSP system, wherever you are.

Online Features
With the Playstation 3 you can access a whole world of multiplayer gaming online. Stay connected with your friends and make new ones with your Playstation Network account. See who’s online and what they are playing and send game invites to friends. Browse and download games, demos and movies from the Playstation Store. You can also use the Playstation 3 to browse the internet.

Life With PlayStation
Get real-time news and information in an amazing interactive 3-D globe environment on the LIVE CHANNEL. Check out weather information from The Weather Channel, global cloud coverage from University of Wisconsin-Madison Space Science and Engineering Center, top news headlines from Google News or live camera images (partially provided by The Earth Television Network) of nearly 60 cities around the globe.

With Stanford University's Folding@home project, your PS3 system can help research diseases whenever you're using Life with PlayStation. Folding@home is distributed computing project, where people from around the world download and run the Folding@home software and together they make up one of the largest supercomputers in the world. The goal of the project is to understand protein folding and misfolding, and how these are related to diseases and many forms of cancer. Participation in Folding@home by the PS3 system user community has been phenomenal. As of February 2008, over one million registered PS3 system users were participating.

System Software Updates
Keeping your Playstation 3 computer entertainment system in top form is free and easy with the latest system software update. New features and upgrades are constantly being added, plus additional security features. System software updates means you don't have to worry about your PS3 system becoming outdated or missing out on exciting new capabilities. Just chose your favorite method for staying current and keep on evolving.