Man, I have to say it's really ridiculous that Sony has forbidden importing PS3 inside European Union. The normal price for a PS3 here in Finland is 470 euros (40gb  version) and it's over 700 fucking dollars. And you guys get 80gb version for $500, and it comes with MGS4. Motherfucking.

I don't really mind having the 40gb version though. I doubt that I'll fill that 40gb (and if I will, you can always buy an external hdd right?)

Dude you really need to set up clandestine deals with your buddies at GamingW to buy a US PS3 and ship it to you.  It might cost $100 to ship but you will probably come out ahead.

Also you can upgrade the PS3 hard drive with any laptop harddrive with the correct specifications (it has to have exactly the correct speed in order to work).  Some people are rocking 300 or 400 GB hard drives in their PS3s and it's pretty affordable to upgrade.  I really don't understand why Sony is releasing all of these different SKUs with 20 GB increments because there's really no qualitative difference in the cost of materials -- all of the hard drives they are ordering are outdated and probably comparably inexpensive.

I have a 60gb and a 40gb. The 60gb almost gets no use (I've honestly been thinking about selling it) the 40gb on the other hand has a 320gb HDD in it now, over 70 gigs of movies, 10 gigs of music, tons of pictures and is where I do all my ps3 gaming. I bought a PS3 b/c I wanted to play PS3 games. Honestly if I ever do happen to play a PS2 game (I've been playing DMC1) as of late, I pop it into my PS2 slim. I don't get why so many people are complaining about BC.

Oh yeah, for HDMI issues, go to monoprice.com. They have HDMI cables for like $5 shipped. (Sony should just buy there whole stock and distribute it with PS3s).

It's because we don't have PS2s....