The PS3 Feature No One Talks About

[@CasualGamingCorner]

Also, you can connect a PS5 controller, in case someone gets one PS3 without controllers.

[@uknighted213]

What?!

[@Skyler30000]

Also ps4 controllers but the ps button doesnt work for whatever reason

[@tougeruzbay]

yeah the bluetooth isn't that great, better off with the brookwin DS2 adapter

[@ccchan2649]

@@Skyler30000 It's cos the ds4 and dualsense connect as generic bluetooth controllers

[@PlaidZoomer]

@@uknighted213 and ps1 ps2 & ps4

[@Alias_Anybody]

It's pretty hilarious how the PS3, or at least its early models, could do literally anything, more than most PCs in some cases, while the PS4 axed almost everything in the name of cost cutting and gaming first. It can't even play audio CDs.

[@SA1NT53]

Their old slogan was “it only does everything”

[@douglasbriel6103]

@@Alias_Anybody It should play CD's. They're just DVD's with less information.

[@llMurcielagoll]

I remember back in the day that their PS3 slogan would say "It only does everything!" They didn't lie up until they axed the whole install other OS thing and it went downhill from there

[@GM-Shenmue]

@@SA1NT53 except that they started using that slogan when the PS3 Slim arrived so... by that time it could not play PS2 games (only some selected PS2 classics by emulation from the PlayStation store or via jailbreak) nor had Super Audio CD's support.

[@DoctorMinjinx]

PS3's insane amount of features will always be humorous, like the printing feature. Why does it even have that?

[@Stunz]

you've never printed your tax return from your ps3?

[@dapperfan44]

That feature actually came in clutch for me in college back in the day. My computer died, and I had no other way to get my essay printed (I used other internet workarounds to accomplish even typing it).

[@TheOfficialChannelOfChannels]

Gran Turismo Pictures

[@dapperfan44]

@@TheOfficialChannelOfChannels That was PS2, actually.

[@TheOfficialChannelOfChannels]

@dapperfan44 i did it on ps3 also i forgot how but I gave pics of my friends honda civic to him that I took in game

[@jaynukem1929]

I will alway love and cherish The PS3. It's a must have system for anyone who is a fan of Stereoscopic 3D. Playing Resistance 3 in Stereoscopic 3D with the Playstation Move Sharp Shooter was a very memorable experience to me. It was one of those "The Future is Now" type of experiences.

[@Bluestar1079]

Sony supporting some obscure proprietary format, then dropping it. Well this must be the first and only time that's ever happened.

[@SmallSpoonBrigade]

It's a large part of why I won't be buying any more new systems from them. I got the PS3 as a present and didn't know that I needed to tell my parents to make sure that it had the original set of features because they'd just be dropped without any real indication of it on the packaging.

[@ParadoxalDream]

A hacked original 'fat' PS3 is still the best/easiest way to rip SACDs today.

[@IN-tm8mw]

wow thats awesome.

[@Wesmoen]

I ripped normal CDs without the use of hacking. I'll take it, SACDs do work this way as well.

[@Vict0rFrankenstein]

@@Wesmoen Nope, you can only rip SACDs by jailbreaking

[@AldrianCG]

Somehow i thought compatibility was taken out via firmware. Read or heard it somewhere, i was wrong apparently.

[@Wesmoen]

@@Vict0rFrankenstein are SACDs DRM protected or something?

[@dog_knight]

For many years the PS3 functioned as a DVR for us. The Play TV accessory was really neat. When you consider everything the PS3 could do, it is a really amazing console and well ahead of its time.

[@etherblade999]

you could even say the ps3 is a bridge for old to new, given it has features that supports old tech like CRT... you can do a lot with the ps3 at this point in time that isn't relatively focus on gaming... which is really neat and very forward thinking

[@dapperfan44]

Yup, it still uses the same connector as PS1 and PS2 to be able to use it on old televisions, composite and component. It has an HDMI port built in. The PS4 became the first PlayStation to drop the legacy connector.

[@webbedshadow2601]

@@dapperfan44 I knew the PS3 has the same display output port as the PS1 and PS2 have but I never realized this means it can be hooked up to a CRT! definitely going to do this to play my PlayStation games. Wonder if it looks the same or worse than playing PS1 on PS2, and how much better do PS1 games look over component than composite.

[@RAHelllord]

They look pretty identical between PS1, PS2, and PS3. And component is often significantly better if your CRT supports it. Mostly the colors like red and blue pop a lot more which is awesome, and you should also get less fuzz between color changes making stuff like text much easier to read. If you need good and affordable component cables check out HDRetrovision. All cables they make are great. However, the PS1 emulation on the PS3 isn't perfect, I'd recommend to check online first if the games you'd like to play are actually properly compatible on your model. As that compatibility also changes between models and revisions.

[@Raphtor13]

Yeah I had a bunch of SACDs (still have) and I bought an SACD player but also had the 'fat PS3'.... SACDs were awesome - huge boost in sound quality! I was one of those people that wanted the SACD and Blueray functionality when I bought my PS3 on launch day and i still love it. Also, being able to load Linux on it was a bonus.

[@olebermr]

Your phat ps3 still works? Mine has YLOD, revived it about 50 times until I quit, still have the corpse but it was a sad day...

[@TearlessGosling]

@@olebermr you can probably get it frankied; or sell it to someone who wants to get it frankied

[@thatzaliasguy]

PS3 controller sticks also auto calibrate themselves on start up with the system, which us why it was rare that anyone ever experienced stick drift.

[@Astig_808]

Why remove this feature? I only experience stick drift on current consoles and ive been playing since nes 😮

[@basically_chris]

@@Astig_808planned obsolescence

[@6reen6uy]

They used Hal effect joysticks in certain DualShock3 models for awhile. Then realized their “mistake”.

[@thatzaliasguy]

@@6reen6uy this is false. PS3 pads, both sixaxis (non-dualshock) and dualshock use potentiometers, though they are far better quality potentiometers than what's used today.

[@FireBirbGD]

Is that why I didn't get stick drift after all these years?

[@Likwidfox]

Next you should teach the kids about PS2 firewire.

[@ParadoxalDream]

SACDs were truly ahead of their time, the technology still offers the best sound quality you can get your hands on today. The difference between SACD and DVD-Audio is not the disc or even the lasers required to read the discs, it's the actual encoding of the music. DVD/Bluray use the same encoding as good old CDs, just at higher bitrates (24-bit bit depth instead of 16, and 48/96/192 kHz sample rates instead of 44.1). SACD produces sound in a completely different manner, its DSD audio format encodes music at only 1-bit, but does so at a staggering 2.8224 MHz sample rate (2.82 million samples per second!) Your entire audio setup needs to support DSD if you truly want to hear the difference, otherwise it will convert to PCM and you'll lose what makes DSD truly unique. Audiophile online music stores now sell digital files encoded in DSD, so the SACD optical disc medium is dead but long live DSD!

[@koozmusic]

DSD definitely is unique and somewhat mind boggling. I've read that the ultra-high 1-bit sample rate digital bitstream is actually somewhat coherent to the ear without any processing or filtering. I'm not even sure how you'd accomplish this - perhaps by probing an HDMI output for the DSD bitstream and feeding it into a phono preamp or something... Regardless, that's a whole different animal from linear PCM.

[@Pepsidud32]

@@koozmusic what you're talking about is the fact that DSD is so much like analog that you don't need a digital to analog converter to hear DSD. That being said the PS3 isn't that great of an SACD player since it converts the DSD to a PCM signal to be played through HDMI. If you want the truest way to listen to DSD you need a player with analog outputs. and SACD isn't dead there's still merits to owning the discs and not just the files!!!

[@koozmusic]

​@@Pepsidud32 Yes, that is indeed what I was getting at. 😏 I also agree that the PS3 isn't the best SACD _player_ and analog out is definitely the traditionally "correct" way of listening to SACDs. But a viable (and arguably better) way is to bitstream over HDMI to a receiver capable of decoding DSD. I don't believe the PS3 is able to do this, but you certainly can using a PC. This is a relatively new feature for receivers and/or standalone DACs; DSD decoding used to be inherently necessary as a function of the _player_ as it was never intended to be "extracted" from SACDs in the first place. Maybe some modern or more "feature-rich" players are able to do this, but in essence that would reduce them to the equivalent of a DVD-ROM drive with modified firmware. DSD editing software exists in the professional recording market, but I've heard it is extremely difficult to work with and lacking many of the capabilities you would expect from a DAW. Very few individuals would have the means to generate and/or author original DSD files, let alone distribute them over the internet. The advent of software-based DSD decoding (i.e. fb2k/winamp, etc plugins), and the fact that modern, well-featured receivers and standalone DACs are able to decode a DSD bitstream at all is probably a testament to the reality that raw SACD image rips exist in the first place.

[@Otto_Pilate]

I had a PS3 and a 3D Bravia TV. Killzone in 3D was pretty epic for the time.

[@Bowen_Landry]

That one amv with Vegeta fighting Goku during the Buu saga, playing slipknots duality, was sick. wish I downloaded it ;/

[@BmwolotlE90]

should be on youtube somewhere lol

[@SA1NT53]

The old slogan was “PS3 only does everything” and it definitely did

[@SumeaBizarro]

Another feature of PS3 lineup is MP3 surround support. PS3 is almost only media device supporting this sub-format for MP3. You of course need surround music that is ripped somehow to 5.1 surround and very old tools to create surround MP3's, but at 320kbps you can have very small OK quality collection of surround music on PS3 hard drive.

[@zenvultra]

That’s too much work just to listen to compressed surround music, might as well just listen to surround FLACs at that point

[@SumeaBizarro]

@@zenvultra If PS3 would play them back. PS3 will not even play surround AAC's even though it will play the same audio in surround if it is in a video file. The only storable surround music format that PS3 does it MP3 surround, and only lossless audio format for PS3 is good ol' WAV. That is what you just do if you are committed to PS3 as a media center. Converting fifty surround albums into MP3 surround with command line.

[@SmallSpoonBrigade]

@@zenvultra I'm re-encoding my entire CD catalog as I type this. Even when the PS3 was new, there were already programs that could take an entire catalog of CDs and encode it while you stepped away to do other things, so long as you had disc images to cover the discs and didn't have to keep swapping discs.

[@just_delightful]

How ironic is it that Jon is excited by super audio CD when according to RGT Jon doesn't even listen to music

[@dancelittleliar3995]

I actually still listen to my small collection of music cds because of my ps3. Now that cars barely include cd players anymore, it is my only (and honestly great) way to experience my physical music collection.

[@retroklassic4247]

Fleetwood Mac and Michael Jackson Thriller are the greatest two Super Audio CDs I have ever heard.

[@JavonHolland]

which album of Fleetwood? I wanna go check it out

[@bloomerb4162]

Every media source on tech back when it came out down played sacd. I didn't pay it any attention bc of this. Too bad it didn't catch on.

[@retroklassic4247]

@@JavonHolland Rumors

[@LeMelleKH2]

I can't imagine how amazing SACD Thriller must be. I wanna get one now

[@Soonjai]

Jeff Wayne´s War of the Worlds is also amazing, the 5.1 Mix on that is a pure joy.

[@JoeyAnswer]

Not just that but PS3 can play MP3 CD's too! I hope more people start to see how powerful optical media really is. look at the newest generation of optical media, it's said it can hold up to 14,000 4k videos. I do love how a lot of the new portable cd players support MP3 CD's having one CD holding over 100 tracks feels so awesome.

[@ParadoxalDream]

The dual layer SACDs were not meant to double their capacity, it was so that they would remain compatible with regular CD players. The first layer could be read by regular lasers in normal CD players and would offer the regular 16-bit / 44.1 kHz audio quality from Red Book CDs, and the second layer would contain the high-fidelity audio / surround sound mix encoded in DSD format that was only compatible with SACD players (which used the same lasers as DVD players) It is this feature that made SACDs a lot more popular than their competitor (the DVD-Audio format) which was only compatible with dedicated DVD/DVD-A players.

[@ian_5184]

You are referring to hybrid SACDs. However, there were in fact dual-layer SACDs with two SACD layers that were completely incompatible with standard CD players.

[@vermiform]

Man I had The Downward Spiral SACD and would play it on my 5.1 setup and just bask in it. NIN in 5.1 was like rediscovering the album. Trent really worked with that spatial element and the songs felt even more dynamic and enveloping. I also liked the little hidden easter eggs on some albums where if you reversed past the beginning of the first track there would be another hidden track. Sometimes another song or sometimes a joke. Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf comes to mind. The "-1 track" was the _real_ song for the deaf -- low, deep, bass-y sounds you could crank and up and feel. Kind of neat.

[@Pepsidud32]

no way ive been waiting for someone to talk about SACD on the PS3 for forever!!!!! if anyone wants more on the subject I did an SACD retrospective on my channel but didnt even touch SACD on PS3 since that video was already long enough lol but still great effort hoping more people can discuss about this weird format that I love!!!

[@HindsightWithHustle]

I just tweeted about the ps3 launch price last night. The 600 was justified. I hope the ps6 is fully backwards compatible with the entire PS library.

[@Wobble2007]

Still the best console from Sony by far, has the best audio in video games, the best game libraries (PS1/PS2/PS3/PSP/PSN/PSMinis), has stellar BR playback quality, SACD and normal CD playback quality, can play media files from most formats, can do sub 2ms gameplay via analogue outputs, don't make them like that anymore.

[@SmallSpoonBrigade]

It was one of, if not the, cheapest way to get a Bluray player when it launched.

[@AedraRising]

Like, I completely understand the initial backlash to the PS3's original price but god damn, it was so fucking warranted compared to the absolute absurdity that is the PS5 Pro.

[@SA1NT53]

PlayStation 3 really was an amazing piece of technology, it’s still so amazing how even 20 years later, they still haven’t hit the power limit of the console

[@pinatacolada7986]

Awesome video. It might seems like discs are dead, but in reality people still have their collections of music CDs, DVD and Blu-rays. If selling a PS4 to buy a PS5 Pro means they loose their ability to play their beloved media collections, people will be a lot less inclined to do it.

[@kelownatechkid]

The sony UBP-x700m bd player is good for SACD playback, which is handy because that player is commonly available with the region-free mod for DVD/BD playback too

[@SwiftGundam]

The Gundam Wing AMVs were awesome!

[@Stefan_Payne]

"If you had a PS2 there was no reason to buy a DVD Player in your Entertainment setup". Well, in theory, yes. But in reality the PS2 wasn't that good of a DVD Player and often didn't correctly output the correct aspect ratio in some movies...

[@SmallSpoonBrigade]

There's also the issue that DVD players were, and are, a lot less expensive and the PS series, like most other optical media devices, has a laser that will eventually fail and wasting that time on DVDs was kind of dumb.

[@matthewhutchinson2500]

@@SmallSpoonBrigade when the PS2 first launched, it was one of the cheapest DVD players on the market. Most players were $50-$100 more expensive, the PS2 forced other players to get more competitively priced. Eventually DVD players would be consistently cheaper than a PS2, but that took a couple years.

[@LillyP-xs5qe]

So its an audio DVD basically...

[@PenDreamt]

I placed a Skynet 3.0 disc into my fat PS3. It sent me backwards compatible to the year of '98 where I played King's Field, Ridge Racer, and Resident Evil.

[@PrinsessePeach]

A more accessible format now is DVD/Blu Ray Audio.

[@SmallSpoonBrigade]

Looking at the release date of the Super Audio CD, it looks like something that was released because they were too far along to abort. It wasn't released until 1999, which is after the first commercially viable MP3 player was released and after DVDs were released, making it a bit of a headscratcher as to why bother.

[@webbedshadow2601]

Today I finally learned that the "SA-CD/CD" input on the stereo receiver we've had for a decade stands for Super Audio CD!

[@Trikenut012]

Before Roku, that's all I used, Netflix was on PS3, I loaded tons of music on it, love My PS3

[@MedalionDS9]

I have a couple or so SACDs but for a Sony 4K Bluray player... I remember all these weird audio formats from back in the 2000's from DVD Audio to SACD to SHM and so on. I am not an audiophile but I sometimes wanna dip my toe in that despite my hearing is probably getting worse due to aging

[@ian_5184]

SHM is snake oil. The technology hinges on creating a higher quality disc for more "accurate playback". You know, regular CDs and how infamous they are for being... inaccurate?

[@just_delightful]

They were definitely worth it for 5.1 surround mix albums

[@elementsmaster]

Did not expect a SACD vid I thought I was the only one who remembered this feature

[@TheAngryRedBird]

In case anyone is curious and interested in a multi-channel audio disc, a handful of albums are available as Blu-ray discs, many of which have full Dolby Atmos versions. No special player required, should work in any device that plays Blu-rays. I personally only own Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours", but it's a great disc.

[@SmallSpoonBrigade]

I can't remember specifically, but one of the issues with super audio CDs is that they came out after DVDs and DVDs could manage 5.1 sound as well as video. So, there wasn't really much point in having the CD format which really only seems to bring with it the option of having a layer that's compatible with regular CDs, which by that point, were just about to be hit by a bunch of MP3 players with the first viable one already being on the market.

[@vincentvega3093]

Will need firmware updates for blu-ray keys

[@Ron2600_]

I occasionally see people mentioning updates for Blu-ray encryption keys. I have a profile 1.0 player from 2012 without the ability to connect to the internet. All of the new BD disc's I have that were made in 2024 work fine. What is this talk about the keys?

[@SmallSpoonBrigade]

@@Ron2600_ The issue is for the folks that still have Other OS availalbe, updating means giving up that functionality.

[@zeroblade9800]

I've gotten damn lucky with my PS3 consoles. Picked up 60 gig 1 year after release. When Sony dropped price to $500 and discontinunation while saying the successor would have features removed I had to get it. It's still connected to my TV. Years later I found another 60 gig model at a Flea market in great condition for $20. Yes. My 3rd PS3 is a slim along a xbox 360 I found in trash while walking my dog. The 360 red ringed while the slim was in good shape and had a jammed NBA 2k in the drive. I've sinced cleaned them all up and new thermal paste with a simple SSD.

[@savagemadman2054]

If I remember right, the PS3 only did PCM output for multichannel SACD. It couldnt do DSD directly over HDMI to take advantage of Sony's native DSD receivers like the DA7100ES. My back compat PS3s are the only SACD players I have that still work - I'm not sure why but all my dedicated audio players stopped reading SACDs a few years back..

[@RAHelllord]

If you still have a the players you might be able to replace the lasers in them to give them new life. The laser diodes only have a very limited life span before they drift too far out of calibration and either have to be manually recalibrated or replaced with a new one. Sadly recalibrating them yourself is pretty expensive as the tool needed isn't the cheapest, but maybe a repair shop for DVD or CD players offers that service locally. Or, you know, just swap out the entire laser assembly with a new one, many are off the shelf parts that you can still find as old new stock.

[@ドリフト180X]

Wow I’ve never even heard of super audio CD before. With premium digital audio I’ve only ever heard of FLAC format. I think I’d just stick with FLAC since a lot more players support that and doesn’t require buying expensive hardware.

[@ilusha88]

FLAC is equivalent to a normal CD

[@Vict0rFrankenstein]

@@ilusha88 FLAC can have different bit depths and sample rates. 16 bits / 44.1 khz is for CDs, SACD rips are done at 24 bits, 88.2khz.

[@ilusha88]

@@Vict0rFrankenstein most times it's just used as a lossless format from a normal CD quality source

[@Pepsidud32]

if you don't wanna buy a player you should be able to find DSD files of albums being sold (DSD is the file format that SACD is) but if not there are waaaayyy cheaper options than $250 that Spawn Wave said. Just look around but then again you're mileage will vary on how much you can take advantage of SACD if you don't have a surround setup.

[@SagaMediaNet]

Super Audio CD's My Dad had a few of them

[@helliboss]

Techmoan should be the one making a video on this 😊

[@josephrybowicz3760]

came here to comment that I didn’t have Spawn Wave x Techmoan on my bingo card

[@AprilReid-z6j]

The PS3 can’t play the DSD audio on the SACD natively. It converts it to PCM audio.

[@JLary71377]

Definitely the first time hearing about it. Now I want to try it out. May get Dire Straits Brothers in Arms

[@JoseLgamer05]

3:57 That's actually the only album I own in SACD. My dad likely bought it thinking it was just a plain old CD, and it does work as one. I only have one device that can play the SACD layer and no it's not a ps3, it's an old DVD player.

[@MegaManNeo]

In hindsight, the PS3 was super cheap at launch. I picked the fat 80GB model and still have mine but SACD really only became part of my reality because I have heard about it from others on KZbin talking about the format.

[@DeadPiixxel]

7th gen the best

[@CRASHZERO411-r9d]

Keep doing what you’re doing

[@shawnleisure9114]

My DVD player worked better than launch PS2 did. Some DVD movies I bought brand never played well in my PS2 but played well in my standalone DVD player.

[@Acey8494]

Youre such a fanboy, get out little plooby Boy

[@nikolagvozdenovic940]

I had PS2 slim and it played DVDs significantly worse than dedicated DVD player.

[@Acey8494]

@@shawnleisure9114 i dont fucking know i think you are just jeleaous......

[@KiwiKoNZ]

PS3 is the GOAT console ✨🎮🐐✨

[@zachtwilightwindwaker596]

I think the Blu-ray was a major factor in why it won the console war. My dad asked if he could play audio CDs on a PS5. I assumed they did but I was wrong.

[@Coolman13355]

Audio CDs don't even work on PS4 much less PS5.

[@Astig_808]

@@zachtwilightwindwaker596 blu-ray and the 8-core cell chip inside

[@stevezac_cptlpnshmnt]

Honestly, PS3 phat was Sony at its best. If they ever made a new all-in-one box that plays PS1-PS5 games, I would drop an easy $700 without even thinking about it... To a lot of consumers, that would be a HUGE selling point. I don't see why they don't do that for their "pro" consoles and have the normal consoles only play current gen.

[@6reen6uy]

Because it wouldn’t be $700. You’re looking at at least 12 for all of that probably more. And they’d still take a loss.

[@stevezac_cptlpnshmnt]

@@6reen6uy Still worth it.

[@RAHelllord]

Sony would rather sell you a new console and then ask you to pay for older titles as digital downloads again. They've seen Nintendo make bank with it and are now starting to dip their hand into the same pot.

[@greed-1914]

I guess I never knew what that symbol on the box was.

[@CRASHZERO411-r9d]

Hello Everyone 🎉

[@F2002]

If you enjoyed it you should pick up Bob Marley Greatest Hits really good I've had the discs for 20 years now no issues love my SACD

[@triledink]

There also exist cds called enhanced cd which is mostly made for pc. Its are a regular music cd, but if you put in a computer you get videos, pictures, downloadables and more.

[@XxZannexX]

Ah yes, Americans choosing convenience instead of quality is a tale as old as time.

[@davivman6009]

Even the low end Sony 4K blu ray players still support SACD. Not a lot of music was released for the format, but if you are int certain genres of music (especially classical), you can find some really nice recordings.

[@Smoke_Gaming_]

The amv thing was so real lmao. Wasn’t expecting to see that on a spawn wave video

[@Lloyal23]

I'm someone who tried to put a CD in my PS5 and was so disappointed. There's music I have in my CD collection that's not currently on streaming services and I was hoping PS5 could serve as a hub for my old DVD's and CD's.

[@OledBurnInKing]

For ripping sacd's on windows, I use dp power amp to rip my sacd's to the dsf format and it even includes the album artwork and the metadata from the sacd.

[@allbythenumbers123]

The PS3 can basically play DSD64 (1 bit/ 2.8mhz) via Super Audio CD which is 64 times the original sample rate of the Audio CD (16 bit/44.1khz), theres portable music players these days that now can play DSD64, DSD128 (1 bit/5.6mhz), DSD256 (1 bit/11.2mhz), DSD512 (1 bit/22.6mhz)

[@Fattydeposit]

Sonny Sharrock's 'Black Woman' is the most impressive SACD I own.

[@dreamcazman]

I have Dire Straits on SACD, I bought it after I found out the Oppo 203 can play them and wanted to test it out. There is a noticeable improvement, but I wouldn't say it's a HUGE leap over normal redbook audio and can only really be appreciated in a setting without other ambient noises. I can't imagine anyone listening to SACD on the go or in the car, lol. This is probably why the format didn't eventuate to much and also the fact that CD is so good to begin with.

[@Pepsidud32]

the better sounding stereo was really just a bonus (even though it matters album to album cause some stereo discs sound awesome!!) the true crowning jewel of SACD were the surround sound albums not everyone could take advantage of that + digital was way cheaper

[@Sir_Tanooki_Dookie]

I knew you were going to say SACD before you even got to it. As an Audiophile, it was a feature that I noticed right away.

[@Adamtendo_player_1]

This has to be one of the most rare occasions that Sony supported an obscure optical disc format and it just had to be the PS3, Sony just ain’t like that anymore.

[@shuckylad]

I used my ps3 as a cd player for years, you could “upscale” them in the settings. It was great.

[@puma-ps2qp]

Congrats on raising the already high price of the phat ps3 higher

[@theformerkaiser9391]

There weren’t kidding when they said “it only does everything”

[@holenjd3]

Back then, I ended up going with DVD Audio instead of Super Audio Disks. I still have several disks today.

[@Wobble2007]

One of my favourite features of the 360, was its ability to properly mix in your own music CD's and files into the game you were playing, it sounded so good that it might as well have been part of the native game audio, it faded when needed, had just the right levels. Was so cool, now you can't even play music in modern console video games lol.

[@vermiform]

It was integrated SO well. Even on the OG Xbox.

[@JimiJamma]

SACD’S are great! I have several SACD’S to play on the PS3. A super audio CD is a digital format that has the warmth of vinyl records.

[@GentielioGaming]

As a gamer and music lover and an Audiophile it was my glory grail until it broke down. It is not a question of will it break but when it breaks. And when that happened i lost all of my games on it to.😢

[@webbedshadow2601]

Sony became greedy and realized with the PS4 that instead of making their game consoles all in one home entertainment systems like the PS3 was, capable of reading 4K movies etc, they could sell you just a game console and charge you separately to buy a SONY UHD player, music player, etc...

[@jackherbert7694]

I bought one SACD to test in my ps3…dark side of the moon. Sounded slick

[@jamess.3013]

That slogan, ‘it only does everything’ was legit. The PS3 was probably the most future proof console ever made, especially the original 60GB model. 4usb ports, 1080p 60hz, bluray, dvd, Ethernet and WiFi out of the box, multiple memory card formats supported, a solid web browser, 3D gaming and bluray support, 7.1 channel surround sound, full PS1&2 comparability. It’s honestly insane what all it did for hardware released in 2006.

[@madcat4563]

I love how alien early version of "new format" media players look.

[@JerrJang316]

wow lol i thought it was an upside-down disc in the thumbnail and someone was finally mentioning the OTHER thing that for REAL nobody talks about - the claimed "disc cleaning/repair" feature - that supposedly fixed small scratches

[@pieroluciano3272]

Nice! I have the same PS3 Motor Storm set! 👍

[@ThisGuysUserName]

Ahhh. AMVs. Man those were the days!

[@akuma2124]

Never knew about the SACD for PS3, but tbh by the time the PS3 came along, I was well past buying CDs for music. Nice to know my fat PS3 has the feature though. Still sucks they removed linux from PS3. On the note of nostalgia, and the mention of what the PS1 could do (playing your audio CDs), missed opportunity to mention a more niche feature... playing VCDs (video discs) on them. It was possible with the older models that had the long serial port at the back to connect things like Gameshark / Action replay cartridges. You could buy a VCD attachment (although I think some of the third party action replay copycat devices built it into their units too). I dont think the VCD was very common outside of Asia market though, but I remember also playing some through PC back in the day. A lot of them were of course bootleg movies since CD burning went crazy in the late 90s/early 2000s.

[@user-uj3rd9vi9j]

Still an important format for us classical music enthusiasts.

[@ps3inquisition441]

I didn’t know anything about this, time to pick up some SACDs.

[@th00perman_]

To find a CD to buy, Spawn searched for "human music"

[@VIRACYTV]

My BC PS3 phat still works to this day, but I permanently replaced it with a slim. Now it’s stored away safely so that it will never yellow light. Having said that, maybe I turn it into a SACD player connected to my sound system…

[@VictorGonzalez-vj6jy]

I got myself a phone attachment for my Dualsense controller, a mini monitor and an HDMI Transmitter/receiver and made my own portable PS3. 😊👍

[@BoldAndBrash5683]

The original PS3. The original Tungsten Cube

[@wantsome-zs5sq]

I still have my Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon CD I bought in 1992.

[@shieldtablet942]

Being worse than CD was where it was at in this era. Smaller if (slightly worse), so went the MP3.

[@TheGreatMunky]

I don't have any SACD discs but i knew it was an option. I have used DVD-A, and I still buy Blu-ray music discs for surround sound. I actually bought the Dark Side of the Moon on Blu-ray. I may actually have that Sony Blu-ray player too. Never heard anything about it ripping SACD discs though.

[@suntannedduck2388]

Printer support, CF card reader on old models same as Memory Stick Duo support. CD playback/maybe ripping them, probably a bunch of other features could fit this title.

[@shane_8796]

I wish I still had my phat PS3 with all the extra slots in the front. Was so underrated having all the extra i/o

[@Zrorro]

Huh, That's pretty interesting. My PS3 is the launch model that originally had 60 gigs of storage. I upgraded it to a 1tb hybrid hard drive back in 2013. System still runs fine to this day. I only issue is two of the USB ports stopped working but there's still two left. I knew about most of the features, But not the super CD one.

[@Thehotdogman]

I never knew this! I didn't know super audio CD even existed let alone the original ps3s could read them. Neat!

[@maui_idw7644]

I use to save music CDs on my PS3 and movies off of thumb drives

[@ProducerX21]

Gundam Wing Endless Waltz was the first Anime dvd I ever bought

[@saarze]

But it didn't play VCD. Neither did the PS2. That was actually a major shortcoming in Asia. This format was very popular in the piracy scene, and most people didn't watch legit copies back then.

[@dylansandoval9841]

The ps3 in hindsight was worth the price with all it could do. Now that's why the ps5 pro price is ridiculous when it can't even read a CD. Weirdly enough the Series X can.

[@Steelebourne]

That little flash of classic Linkin Park totally brightened my day. :)