# Things to do with my PS3/How to Optimize my HD.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-do-with-my-ps3-how-to-optimize-my-hd/469463
**Category:** The Game Room
**Created:** [October 25, 2008, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-do-with-my-ps3-how-to-optimize-my-hd/469463 "2008-10-25T02:05:19Z")
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### Author:  [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2008, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-do-with-my-ps3-how-to-optimize-my-hd/469463/1 "2008-10-25T02:05:19Z")
I’ve had a PS3 for a while now, but I’ve only used it to play video games, yet I know there is a lot more I can be doing with it. I have 42" Plasma Monitor/1080I. The PS3 is connected to it through the HDMI cable and the sound is connected through a digital sound cord thingy to my surround system.
I got a monitor because it was cheaper and I really don’t watch tv that much. If I really wanted to I could get a digital cable box, but it isn’t that pressing. I mostly use it for video games, dvds, and blu-ray.
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### Author:  [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2008, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-do-with-my-ps3-how-to-optimize-my-hd/469463/2 "2008-10-27T12:18:43Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#):
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> I’ve had a PS3 for a while now, but I’ve only used it to play video games, yet I know there is a lot more I can be doing with it. I have 42" Plasma Monitor/1080I. The PS3 is connected to it through the HDMI cable and the sound is connected through a digital sound cord thingy to my surround system.
Not meaning to threadshit or anything, but why would you have an interlacing plasma monitor? I thought interlacing was pretty much a CRT thing.