I've been using the ps3 for nearly a year now as a BD player. works great, and it is DAMB fast when it comes to playback, FF, RW, stop, skip, pause, eject, etc. I have also had a BD-S1 since last year, which is also great, but was 2.5x the price (of course I didn't PAY that) but it was slow, very unresponsive and by now the PS3 has totally caught up with it from a performance, audio and video standpoint.

I would get the 20gb, or 40gb, model, didnt really need the 60gb, and it IS a premium I think of about 100$, CRAZY money for just 20GB more? It DID have some extra features now that I think about it, but I do not recall what they were.

HDMI out, and with the remote (you HAVE to buy their remote since it is bluetooth, but the controllers work just fine and give a bit of a ghetto feel)

The nice thing about it is, it is ALSO a great game player and I use it sometimes in the LR to stream video to, ripped dvds to and browse email and stuff on the internet.