PC World reports that Digital Entertainment Group, designed to promote forms of digital entertainment, awarded the Playstation 3 with an Digital Innovation award for content source at an annual awards ceremony Monday “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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