i heard some people say that the bluray player in the ps3 wasnt very good, and that a standalone bluray player would give better picture... everything you hear about bluray or hddvd could be made up by fanboys lol i have both hddvd and bluray players and i only checked out one movie to compare (on a 50 inch) and i couldnt tell the difference...so i think the picture quality is very very close if not equal