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Originally Posted by minakichan
Would an older PS3 without upgraded firmware be okay? I don't mean to stubbornly ignore your advice, but I'm really hoping this could work.
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Only if you don't play any recent games on it. Games released in the past year or so will require a firmware upgrade which will disable Linux. Having just bought a replacement 80-gig PS3 from eBay, I think you'll find it hard to buy a machine with firmware that supports "other OS."
That said, there are methods for installing Linux on a PS3 with the most recent firmware, but I can't tell from reading postings online whether these methods will survive another firmware upgrade.
I think you might be better off buying a
Blu-ray drive and an
NVIDIA card (8xxx and above) and installing them on your old machine. Linux mplayer with VDPAU on NVIDIA will play pretty much anything you throw at it.