Been given a PS3 from India, what will work on it?

[JAGS]

Hi all,

First post on the games forum (i lurk on the P&P one more to be honest)

Just been givena PS3 as a present from family visiting me from India (woohoo!!). the unit is an official PS3 from some Sony shop in India and is a 40GB PAL version. it has a region number of 5 on the box(havent unpacked it just yet unfortunately - been too busy).

My questions are(I have no idea of PS3 specs etc):
Will i be able to play UK PS3 games on it?
Will i be able to play UK Blu Ray movies on it?
Will i be able to play UK DVD's on it?

Sorry for asking such silly questions, but just wanted to know where i stand in terms of the media i can play on the unit.

Thanks

[Lurking Lawyer]

PS3 games are region free so you shouldn't have an issue with that.

Blurays are region locked (regions A to C - UK is B, India is C) although some are region free. Unless the latter, you won't be able to play UK BR disks on it.

DVDs will have the same problem - UK is region 2, India is (from dim and distant memory) region 5, I think.

[JAGS]

thanks for the info!

So i guess this PS3 can more or less only be used as a gaming device.

playing movies is not so much of an issue i guess. My TV/AV stuff can do that.

Thanks! Helps clear a lot of things out for me.