Playstation 3 Wins Digital Innovation Award

The Digital Entertainment Group, a 10-year-old industry group designed to further and promote DVD and other forms of digital entertainment, held its annual awards ceremony on Monday night.

The Digital Innovation award for content source went to the Playstation 3, for its vision of transforming home entertainment into a single, connected box that encompasses online, digital, gaming, and Blu-ray Disc-based entertainment.

The choice was an intriguing one-although indirectly it seems to give the nod to Blu-ray Disc, in fact, it was one of the most neutral options on the table short of overtly weighing in on the ugly next-gen format war by picking either one of Toshiba's HD DVD players of one of the early Blu-ray Disc home theater players. (The DEG's biggest acknowledgment of the format wars was its observation in opening remarks that "we're no longer in a single-format environment.")

The Playstation 3 is so encompassing that it embraces more than just Blu-ray Disc-although it does that part quite well, and indeed it was those reasons the group cited as to why the PS3 claimed this award.

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