@daftrok:

Had to please the wife.

freakshow1

Does this make the main movie on my bluray discs play better? No? Ehhh

dangj307

@dave the wet sprocket:

You'll be waiting forever. You knew what you bought into. If you wanted PS2 compatability you should've spent an extra 100.

LittleBigPlaneteer

screw interactive movies. i'm still waiting for the magic update that will let me play my ps2 games on my gimped ps3.

dave the wet sprocket

@freakshow1:
That's 12 dollars that should have gone somewhere else. Seriously why replace a wireless rechargeable controller with a remote?

daftrok

@deadatbirth440:

No because I spent $12.00 and got a remote. Now life is easy.

freakshow1

"Subtitle support for Divx too!"

Soft-sub support, the last, great, missing feature on ally DivX players.

Updating my PS3 now.

ZR07

@VulnoX:
Not YET. They will implement it, but unfortunately like BD Profile 2, it won't work for current Blu ray movies. The digital file must be either encoded into the disc or available on a separate disc with the movie. Currently Hitman and I believe Resident Evil: Extinction (ugh) has digital copies that can be played on iPods. No word yet on PSP but that should be coming soon.

daftrok

start will do it also. ive always used the X button for to do it, but in some cases it wont work

deadatbirth440

@deadatbirth440:
I thought START was the play/pause button.

@rbf2000:
I thought it could do this from the beginning. Note that TOSLINK (optical) out will not be able to output DTS Master Audio (or Dolby TrueHD for that matter). It has to be HDMI, you have to have a receiver that is DTS master Audio/Dolby TrueHD capable AND the Blu ray movie has to have it. There are Blu ray movies out there with simple Dolby Pro Logic:

"In Blu-ray Disc, TrueHD is an optional codec, meaning that TrueHD may only be present on a disc which already contains a sountrack encoded in one of the mandatory formats, such as Dolby Digital, DTS or PCM. The primary Dolby Digital audiotrack ensures all Blu-ray players, including those incapable of processing TrueHD, can access a playable audiotrack."

"DTS-HD Master Audio is an optional audio format for both Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD."

Source: Wikipedia.

daftrok

does anyone else have a problem on some movies where the X button wont pause or play the movie. I have to hit Triangle to get to the play/pause features sometimes

deadatbirth440

Subtitle support for Divx too!

LittleBigPlaneteer

@ejg930:
Yay, now I can play all my already bought Blu-Ray movies and use all their BD 2.0 spec features! Oh wait, thats right, unlike HD-DVD it didn't come from the start and isn't available on any of my current BR movies. Damn.

Oh well, nice to have an update for the future though. I wonder what will be the first title to use the features for something cool (not just to use it).

One thing is for sure, its nice that even though quite a few people might be downloading this update on PSN's free service, it still downloaded very fast.

The release notes on it state:
You can copy your Music and Photo playlists to the PSP
It supports BD 2.0
It supports DIVX files over 2.0GB now
It can resume playback on DVD's and BRDVD's even if the system is shut down or the disc is removed (Honestly my favorite feature, at least until the BR 2.0 does something nifty).

No you can't copy your movies to the PSP, that rumor was already shot down wasn't it?

VulnoX

BD-Live. Downloadable movie content. Blah, blah, blah. Bored now.

Hmm...wait a minute. "Resume Play"? Holy crap, yes!

I just finished doing the update and, coolness plus, the resume play function works just as you would want it to. I did a quick test with three different BD movies. Not only did my PS3 remember where I had stopped play on each individual disc (with a nod to akgw who had asked if it would in a comment from a few days ago), it even remembered such after a complete shutdown/reboot. Sweet!

bosskev

It's also supposed to make the internet browser faster, and like thisisftg said, put blu-ray movies onto your PSP.

df747jet

WOOT!!!

Now hurry up and let me put my blue-ray on my PSP

thisisftg

Too bad it still can't decode DTS Master Audio... Maybe the next update!

rbf2000

@ejg930:

Took BD long enough.

PlasmaMachine

Do you hear that? That's the sound of the HD-DVD side losing their last argument as to why it was superior - more interactive content.

ejg930

WOOHOO

Seiven

Still missing FULL xvid/divx codec support....Arrgh

The Original Sony remote is also bluetooth like the controllers (play is play and not square, triangle or whatever)

Remote means one hand control and the feeling of a real playa

Silverstone78

@bosskev: sweet, now I'm psyched

akgw

@daftrok: Well, the PS3 can't output any advanced audio codec as a bistream signal at all, so it doesn't matter if I have a receiver which can decode either TrueHD or DTS:MA (though I do). The PS3 has to internally decode the advanced codec and output them as LPCM.

It has always decoded TrueHD and DD+, but if you stick in a disc with Master Audio on it, it simply uses the standard DTS track which is also on all discs that use DTS:MA.

Apparently there is a technical limitation with the PS3 hardware that prevents it from outputting the bitstream signal, so we have to wait for SCEA to add native DTS:MA decoding support to the PS3, which it seems this update did not do.

rbf2000

@GFX-187: THANK YOU! you hit that just right, all that hype for nothing

matsayz

@LittleBigPlaneteer: Dude keep in mind if you bought in the UK the 1st day release 60gb was gimped, im still looking for better emulation to get smoother framerates.

Anyway please tell me this isnt the big summer update everyone was on about cos its crap if it is.

GFX-187

@daftrok:
"That's 12 dollars that should have gone somewhere else. Seriously why replace a wireless rechargeable controller with a remote?"

Because it is IR and you can then use any universal remote to control the PS3. Also the IR remote fits in the palm of your hand and has easy to use conventional buttons like [Play] [FF] [REW] [Pause] [Stop]....

Julien321

Yeah, I wish they would have gone with some kind of proprietary wireless function that would mean almost everything would be wired because companies wouldn't want to pay the extra money to make things wireless, and so that way I could be totally bent over on various wireless accessories because they'd only be made by Sony.

Damn them for using a standard format for wireless!

Evil J

@Julien321:
The PS3 doesn't have an IR sensor. Did you get a USB to IR adapter for it too?

@rbf2000:
Understood. It can do Dolby TrueHD but not DTS master audio (yet).

@freakshow1:
...what?

daftrok

yea. bluetooth is stupid. IR remotes are the wave of the future

shorty6049

@freakshow1:
except sony was stupid and made everything bluetooth which wont work with my crestron or any other universal remote i have

deadatbirth440

@robinandtami:
Sigh...

The subtitle of every firmware update for Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft should be "it should have been included from day one."

Are we this spoiled now that when ANY feature, no matter how great or small, is added for free to something already purchased, we HAVE to complain about it not being available before?

Seriously.

I don't know about you guys, but I'd rather get something late than never especially since I didn't buy the console for what it could do "in the future" but for what it could do NOW... so... this is all icing on the cake as far as I'm concerned.

I know people hate them for some reason, but I love firmware updates. It's like waking up in the morning to finding a mechanic from your car manufacturer saying "Well, I added x, y, and z today... no charge!"

I bought the PS3 because I knew Gran Turismo would be out on it eventually, and I liked the PS family controllers (could never get used to either XBox controller or that would have been my first choice). I also liked that I could play Blu-rays on it.

That was it. Now I use it for streaming media from my computer, playing DIVX files that I could only play on my computer, occasional web-browsing, and finally playing unexpectedly fun download games (I seriously said i wasn't going to buy any download games when I first bought it). This kinda multi-level entertainment isn't just on the PS3, but the 360 and to some extent to the Wii...

All of which have seen upgrades "after day one."

I dunno, I just think it's a stupid thing to complain about when after you bought your PlayStation 2... you could watch DVDs on it and play PlayStation 1&2 games on it... and that was about it. Almost forgot that you could actually get on the network with the other handful of people who bought an adapter and a decent 'net connection... but that was about it.

Evil J

@rbf2000:

"The PS3 doesn't have an IR sensor. Did you get a USB to IR adapter for it too?"

Yes, it just plugs into any USB port to draw power. It is a IR receiver to Bluetooth converter and about the size of a typical USB memory stick.

Julien321

@TheFaze:

The resume play will be the only benefit I see from the update as well, but I really can't give them props for including it in this update. That really should have been working from day one. It's been such a standard feature for so long, you get it even in a $40 Chinese dvd player from Wal-Mart.

robinandtami

Yeah, the Resume Play feature is more beneficial to me than the BD Live stuff. Who is really gonna be dl ringtones for movies? Maybe if it's Star Wars or something memorable...

TheFaze

@Evil J: Nice that you say so now, but your comments should have been available from posting one.

bosskev

@robinandtami:
It's not just you I'm responding to here (should have made that more clear).

I get what people are saying, but at the same time, if it's a feature that wasn't available before and is now for free...

Where's the beef?

I'm just saying you go into any firmware thread/service pack update/software patch post and you'll read at least one "should have been availble from day one" comment.

Usually it's true, but there was a time when you bought a model of an electronic item, and even if it was top of the line when you bought it, there'd be a new unit released in a few months that would have some feature you didn't and you'd have to sell the old one and get the new one to get that feature...

Evil J

@Evil J:

I never gave a thought to the "remember" feature until I was watching a movie and got a little wonky with the fast forward/rewind and couldn't find my spot again. I just hit the stop button and assumed that when I hit play it would go back to where it was. When it went all the way back to the beginning, I thought it was really odd that the great and "advanced" PS3 didn't have that feature when it really is such a simple and STANDARD feature on every newish DVD player. I am glad they finally got it; better late than never.

robinandtami

@GFX-187: Why do people want a PS3 to play PS2 games? I don't get it. On an HDTV, PS2 games don't look that great, even with the upscaling turned on. I have the 60 GB PS3 with PS2 hardware compatibility (the best you can have) and even I would much rather get a $100 PS2 if I wanted to play PS2 games often. They just plain suck on HDTVs (which all PS3's should be connected to).

I'm totally baffled how not being able to play PS2 games with full compatibility on a PS3 machine is the deciding factor in getting a PS3. Uhm, get PS3 games fool.

berribrand

@bosskev:
Damn it, you're right!

Seriously, that wasn't just aimed at one issue, it just seems like any time people get a firmware update/patch/whatever, their main thing is "I shouldn't have to download this to get it."

OK, sometimes that's true (I'm a little annoyed in a way that Gran Turismo Prologue is shipping with software bugs so you have to download an update as soon as you get it, and it's just the most recent example of developers leaning a bit too hard on patches... Xbox 360 Bully, you're here too), but I guess I remember times when there WASN'T the ability to download things to fix/add features to what you bought.

If you bought a broken game, you'd bought it and you were shit out of luck with it. Buy a game system and another comes out with a better feature, again, shit out of luck.

I think it's cool that I've got a launch 60GB that can do all the stuff my friend's brand new 80GB system can do... maybe a bit more if PS2 BC is your bag, which it isn't for me, so even small features like this make me happy. I've been watching "Planet Terror" for the last three nights in 30 minute bits (better than Ambien for insomnia with 300% more zombie-marines getting their d*cks wet), so being able to switch between game and movie without missing a beat... fine by me, worth the five minutes or so I take to upgrade the firmware.

Sorry if I came off as hostile, it's just the same statement over and over, and while it's sometimes true, it's just rehashing what we all know: it'd have been better to come with it, but it's free and it makes it better... whatever it is.

Although this time it asked me about installing Safari. Weird.

Evil J

@berribrand:

I disagree.

I just had a blast playing God of War II on my PS3 with a wireless imported Dualshock 3.

I used the 480p code and played it on a 30" CRT HDTV and had a very awesome experience.

Same model of PS3 though, and I agree it is the best one ;)

Pay_Me_Or_Pay_Me_No_Attention

WoW! XviD did not work for me before, but now it does...

valmig

BTW for your info, a lot of divx and xvid which never played NOW can play. So this update does include some divx / xvid patching too!

dilipbalsaraf

Also does anyone have any issues copying a 4.2+ gb size file to/fro external hdd ?
I wished this 2.2 release fixed such issues.
At this pace somy will take 4 years for the ps3 to really become a powerhouse

dilipbalsaraf

Does anyone know whats the max size of divx it supports?

dilipbalsaraf

Cool. Can't wait to see if anything has changed.

Evangelion