A Bit Confused ! Advice on HD player / Home Cinema Sound System / PS3 Wanted ! Newbie

[omoeko]

Hi All,

I am a bit new t the HD game 4etc, I have a LG 50 inch full HD tv, I want to make the most of the HD capabilities, since my cable service does not output in HD format, at the moment, I amt hinking of either getting a

Home Cinema system
Ps3
DVD player with HDMI upscaling etc.

Most of the time, I will be playing downloaded movies, eg dvd rip and also recorded TV shows, most of the movies are going to be in DVD rip format, although I will also be playing some Bluray quality ones a times, I don’t want to start having to burn movies onto DVD to play it on the system I am going to get, on the other hand HD quality movies are around 8GB or more in size and wouldn’t mind getting an SD card which the player must be able to read from, or I don’t know if its possible to have these players where they can connect to my PC directly through SB, in short all I am looking for is a way to play movies without burning it on DVD first.

I am still a bit confused and don’t know what sort of kit I should be looking at. Any advice would be really appreciated.