>>11910589
I have seriously never heard of anyone doing that, I'm sure tons people did but people used their PS2 to mostly play games I think.
Maybe really early 2000s, like 2000, 2001 or 2002. I have played DVDs on mine maybe a few times just to test it out. I owned other devices that played DVDs in 2002, I remember. I watched Spider-Man on some laptop we had and MiB2 on my desktop PC, both in 2002. I remember how my father bought some surround set and even it came with a DVD player. DVD players were everywhere.

I do believe that people bought a PS3 for its Blu-Ray player because dedicated ones were so expensive initially.