Reason to buy PS3 console as Blu-Ray player

Sony's PlayStation 3 video game console was the cheapest Blu-Ray player on the market when it was launched. Recently, an announcement of a firmware upgrade seems to give consumers a reason to buy the console a little beyond it Blu-Ray capabilities.

Sony says the new firmware enables users to take advantage of something called BD-Live, and to dynamically download "additional content and special features" associated with movies on Blu-ray. This means (as Sony adds) that BD-Live "will keep your (Blu-ray) discs fresh with new content and in some cases exclusive content only accessible to owners of BD-Live enabled discs." "With this update, the PlayStation 3 becomes the first Blu-ray player on the market with BD-Live functionality."

The PS3 appears (for the video gamers' community at the least) to be that illegitimate child that has been always outclassed by Nintendo's Wii and Microsoft's Xbox 360. This recent--shall we call it smart--move from Sony could bring up sales for the machine. And as how a CNET article puts it "After all, they say, when faced with lemons, make lemonade."