The only minor grumble I have is the slight stretching of the 16:9 PS3 image to the 16:10 monitor. I wish there was a way to get the 16:9 image with black borders but I don’t think there is. It’s not a huge problem and films are still watchable but I’d have liked to have been able to use the new DVD upscaling feature to watch standard DVDs in their proper ratio.

Finally, I did encounter another problem which I fixed and may be of use to other users. When I first set up the monitor all worked fine for games and menu screens but as soon as I put a standard DVD in (haven’t tried BD yet) the screen went black and I had to reboot the PS3. I initially thought this was due to copy protection but it seems if I go into “Display Settings” and untick the 1080p option, it all works fine.

It doesn’t have a headphone socket, but it does have three options for sound output - either HDMI, Optical, or the old-style Playstation AV connection. HDMI is obviously out of the question if you’re using the Dell monitor and if you’re just using speakers than Optical is probably not much use either.

What you could do is use the AV cable that came with the PS3. It turns the AV connection into three RCA jacks - one for video and two for audio. It’s entirely possible and cheap to get converters that will turn the two RCA jacks into a headphone connection, which you could either swap with the PC, or if you leave the PC switched on all the time, you could run the PS3 into the line-in headphone socket on the back of the PC and not have to swap any cables ever.

Thanks to the excellent configs on the PS3 you can choose where you sent the video and sound, so you can tell it to send the video out of the HDMI port and the sound out of the AV one :)

A quick question if I may. How do you get sound? My PC goes to my speakers via a small green headphone jack (still can’t believe such a simple connection works for all that sound information).

Is there a simlar jack on the PS3?

The aspect ratio (16:9 vs 16:10) never bothers me in games. I’ve watched a few movies on the thing and I do notice it there, but I don’t plan on buying a huge number of bluray movies until I own a big TV (I have a 20″ Dell on my PC right next to the 19″ dell on the ps3, so I tend to watch movies on the PC where software can compensate for the aspect). It’s worth noting that the 19″ dell doesn’t offer any scaling/adjustment stuff from the menus for digital modes (or at least for digital modes from the ps3). It gets the sizes/positions right, but it means I can’t correct for the 16:10 aspect.
Like I said though, I never notice it in games.

All in all, I’m very happy with it :)