panasonic dmp-bd65 versus playstation 3 slim for watching blu ray?

[Rob]

I am buying the Panasonic Viera TX-P50V20B TV and need to buy a blu ray player and eventually a AV receiver and 5.1 speaker setup. As I understand it, the quality of the blu ray player is not important if I am using the AV receiver as the decoder. I intend to bitstream the movie to the av receiver. It is my belief that the sony PS3 slim can do this. I am unable to make up my mind whether to go for the panasonic dmp-bd65 blu ray or the Sony PS3. Reason being, the Panasonic blu ray 65 does not support dlna and the 85 only support music and pictures dlna which is pointless to me as the tv also supports that. The sony PS3 supports Video DLNA and I am hoping to have DOLBY-HD videos on my dlna server, which can then be picked up by the Sony, sent to the AV receiver for decoding and then playing on the TV. My problem is that using the Sony means that I will have two different remotes and secondly many people have complained about the longevity of the blue ray drives in the Sony, so I am thinking that it might be safer to go with the Panasonic for quality of components as Sony PS3 drives seem to have a high failure rate in comparison. But this means I lose the video DLNA unless its possible to stream video straight to the TV, which will have the sound output to the AV receiver and onto the 5.1 speaker setup. Any thoughts on this issue, as I don't know whether Video DLNA is any good because of latency etc. I don't really play games, but the Sony PS3 is £225, and the panasonic DMP-BD65 is about £150, so frankly the Sony is more bang for buck as you can play games and use DLNA on it. But I am concerned about reliability of the Sony Playstation. I googled it and it seems to be very unreliable. I want to many blu rays and for it to last quite some time. any thoughts