never owned one before,

I ordered 1 in the mail, should be coming any day now, I don't have any games or blu-ray discs yet, is there anyway to see if the playstation 3 is malfunctioning or defective before I buy games/dvds?

I want to know if I was sold a bogus screwed up one.

any info would help.

wow great suggestion, I completely forgot about playing something other than a ps3/bluraydisc

I ordered the backwards compatible one too, so I could also play a ps2 disc and see if that checks out, awesome thanks!