Firmware 1.82 Coming Soon…

awheaten  |  June 27th, 2007 at 3:33 am

AVIs, please make a codec update that plays back AVIs. We don’t need to go in to why it would be nice to add the codec (did someone say file sharing). AVCs are close but playing back AVI would be a big step in helping the DLNA capability.

MUCKRAKER  |  June 27th, 2007 at 3:35 am

RE: POST #200

…And I’d like to add.

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Fantatier  |  June 27th, 2007 at 3:47 am

sweet

ominae  |  June 27th, 2007 at 3:49 am

Bump for the 1080p24 “FORCE” option!

Kraken  |  June 27th, 2007 at 3:51 am

Cool. Thanks for the heads up!

Zta  |  June 27th, 2007 at 3:52 am

Please fix the weird bug in the on-screen-keyboard where pressing Play (which should do Enter and return back) most of the time inserts an unwanted space before returning. Thanks in advance

Fantatier  |  June 27th, 2007 at 3:54 am

when is an official Sony PS3 keyboard and Mouse combo going to be released?

kjeldsen  |  June 27th, 2007 at 3:54 am

#201 Avi´s requires way to many Codecs to be implemented to actually work

Juginabi  |  June 27th, 2007 at 4:00 am

AVI is just a container. It can contain virtually any codec invented so to support “AVI” you want support for every codec on the planet!

Just my two cents.

salamagd  |  June 27th, 2007 at 4:18 am

Another vote for adding 1080p24 force support as soon as possible!

purchaser  |  June 27th, 2007 at 4:50 am

I’m waiting for the update you allow to play AO ratings on the Sony consoles. This will be the day I grab my PS3 from the shelf.
Come on guys, make the PS3 attractive for adults.

Globox82  |  June 27th, 2007 at 4:56 am

CAN SOMEONE TELL ME HOW TO PUT PICTURE FOR MY AVATAR?

MasterCharged  |  June 27th, 2007 at 5:02 am

@213 globox82. just sign up here and then upload you picture and wait at least 24 hrs for it to show up

http://site.gravatar.com/signup

kamiboy  |  June 27th, 2007 at 5:10 am

Ok, here is what I want from a future update. It is very simple. I want full mpeg2 video playback support. Right now mpeg2 support crippled by the fact that mpeg2 TS files can’t have AC3 sound and so on. I painfully transfered a bunch of HD satellite grabs from my laptop to the PS3 and before transferring them I painstakingly converted them all from mpeg2 TS to PS.

I could watch them, but it turned out that PS3 can only get 2 channels out of a multichannel AC3 soundtrack, why it doesn’t just pass it on to the receiver through optical just like with dvd’s is beyond. What is worse is that from v1.6 and on I could no longer play back those files I transfered. When I start them they start to stutter and then I get an error message.

All in all the PS3 need better video playback capabilites to be able to be called a Media Center.

Duke  |  June 27th, 2007 at 5:11 am

nice this is a wicked update keep the good news coming and add some more midway classsics online >:]

sirnh1  |  June 27th, 2007 at 5:17 am

The playstation 3 is only getting better and better with every Firmware update.

I agree with the person who said that it’s time to discontinue the PS2…

Oh, and that browser in the Playstation3 really can use some good updates… Why don’t you guys ask the people from the opera browser to create a special version from their browser that would work on the playstation3? (They have a version for mobile phone, smartphone, desktop. They even created one for the wii. If they did that then they must be able to create a better browser for the ps3 )

Calvert  |  June 27th, 2007 at 5:18 am

I would more like to see Quicktime or WMV support than this. These are the two main formats that PS3 is lacking.

Afterall, Sony Erricson mobile phones do use the Quicktime format and apparently Sony have a good relationship with Apple so I don’t see why it can’t be done at leat for Quicktime.

Please bring WMV, Quicktime and .3gp compatibility in an update soon!

linton  |  June 27th, 2007 at 5:30 am

They cant discontinue the ps2 yet - its selling waaaaay to well and they only stopped making the ps1 early 2006(maybe 2005?), i agree also that the ps3 will get better n better with these new firmware updates, being a firefox user id love to see it running on my beloved ps3 or even opera(not quite got my head round that yet), i think a lot of people still forget the ps3 is only 7 months old and 4 months old in the uk(young) and i know there are some very very good things to come from the girls n boys in sony(hooyaa!) never mind the other games companies…….
as for the video playback - BRING IT OOOOON!, there are so many types of video out there, if youcould make just half of them work on the ps3 we’d be happier, AVC is the lick - well looking forward to that.

Fantatier  |  June 27th, 2007 at 5:31 am

better browser compatibility would be nice, especialy full Flash support.

zgamer  |  June 27th, 2007 at 5:37 am

Please update the scaler to output 1080i for 720p game. The PS3 downscales these games to 480p for many rear projection TVs. Thank You.

cmsj  |  June 27th, 2007 at 6:08 am

This doesn’t make much sense, H.264 AVC High Profile is the format BluRay discs are in, so the PS3 can already play them. Are you saying that they are now available for playback of user-encoded files?
I’ve not examined which profile I used in detail, but all of the AVC files I’ve created thus far have played perfectly on my PS3.

What would be really far more useful to most people is support for other MPEG-4 formats such as DivX and XviD, but I expect that patent issues and fears about piracy will prevent that and force us to keep transcoding media for the PS3

Hixxy  |  June 27th, 2007 at 6:08 am

What I’d like to see in future updates:

In game XMB access is definitely gonna be a must have.

Downloads to continue in background while playing games, watching movies etc. This would be a good patch as it will be required when more and more content becomes available on PSN.

AAC is supported but when connecting the iPod it cannot understand file names. Also, difficult to network from pc as Windows Media Player does not fully recognise AAC as a music format. It would be nice to be able to access my AAC library on the PS3 and also play music whilst browsing photo libraries etc.

MOST IMPORTANTLY I would like to see full RGB available through the scart connector when playing back movies. I will be getting HD but not for at least a year yet and it is totally unfair that I cannot watch DVD’s in the best quality available on SD. Even if there was some converter available so I coud use HDMI to Scart would be good, but as far as I am aware there is no such thing! So it is simply impossible for me to watch DVD’s at RGB quality!

el_equardo  |  June 27th, 2007 at 6:20 am

thanks for the update!
but, we need divx and xvid support!! your not stopping piracy by not supporting those formats.

also wmv would be nice, even if it is m$. it is not our war, we want a mediacentre that can play all formats.

tielo  |  June 27th, 2007 at 6:30 am

Great update, thanks Sony.
And now for my list:

- AVI and DIVX playback
- Update the web browser (try to go to orlandosentinel.com and the PS3 will lock).
- Backgrounds

Thanks.

Vikyel  |  June 27th, 2007 at 6:36 am

As nagus69 said,

please ad 24p “ON”

We can’t enjoy 24p with some TV wich are able to display 24p simply because this mode isn’t forced =(

liquid_dreams  |  June 27th, 2007 at 6:41 am

keep the updates rolling sony!

xvid is free so surely that can be added (hopefully)
for the other file formats that arnt free; maybe sony can get a deal to sell them on the PS Store, would be cheap for only the codecs and i certainly would buy.

i still think we need a better file system. no option to play hd files bigger than 4gig, bit poor for a HD media centre, and my pc monitor sucks compared to tv

i think a better media player would be nice, maybe one that is in one place too…….

im all for XMB in game too

liquid

BennyD  |  June 27th, 2007 at 6:45 am

cool, more ps store stuff would be good though

cduran02  |  June 27th, 2007 at 6:52 am

Looking forward to the update, keep em comming. But what about the PSP? I own both a PS3 and a PSP. I also want some love for my PSP, what new updates are in the work for it? What type of PSN connectivity is in the works? etc.

Also on a side note, I read that Sony is redirecting their marketing efforts for the PSP to a much younger demographic. This would be a big mistake imho, Im 35 years old and I love my PSP and I would like to see more features for it that would apeal to me. Forget the DS the real PSP competition is the Video iPod and soon the iPhone. PSP is in a unique possition to actually beat Apple at portable video.

Sorry to get off topic, just felt like getting that off my chest.

jlocker  |  June 27th, 2007 at 6:53 am

Great Job Sony, I love the updates keep them coming.
I would like to see better keyboard and mouse functions, I have a bluetooth keyboard and mouse I use with the PS3 and the interface needs a little improvement with better keyboard key function support and mouse game support. The browser interface could use some work. It would be nice to have the PS3 use fairplay file support to play iTunes songs that I have purchased from the Apple. More video and audio support for DLNA. I like the idea of Samba support so my Macbook Pro could talk to the PS3 better. I think that you should lend out your PS3 systems developers to software developers for a week or two seminar to show the major game developers what the PS3 system can do in software code to make the PS3 games better then the xbox 360 system.
Would like to see a few more midway games on SOE.
I like the idea of SOE creating online role playing games, if that created a great game like Everquest, they can do it again. If you could have a game were PS3, PC and Macintosh players could all play at the same time this would be cool, this is were keyboard and mouse on the PS3 is important.

Thanks for letting me talk, if i think of any more cool things I will let you know

Thanks for the good updates.

West End Matt  |  June 27th, 2007 at 6:57 am

A few fixes for the browser would be nice such as a Google addition or some kinda search engine

ecchichuu  |  June 27th, 2007 at 6:58 am

Hey Eric, thanks for the update.

I hope you guys can put some E3 content on the PSN promptly after it gets shown at E3. Like trailers or even clips of the Sony press conference. Game sites only tend to offer low quality HD video or good quality low res video, so I’d love to get the high quality HD movies off the PSN.

KatanaKing  |  June 27th, 2007 at 7:01 am

Now this is what i’m talking about, this blog is really taking shape and i am so pleased that SONY is acutally LISTENING to what the public say and want.
Wat to go SONY, that is one of the reasons why i bought a Sony product in the first place.

Keep up the good work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

jlocker  |  June 27th, 2007 at 7:08 am

Oh I remembered something, it would be nice if you could allow Draft-N USB 2.0 dongle support in the future so you could upgrade your existing PS3 to faster WIFI, which would support HD files better, the Draft-N can do 300mbps with all three antenna’s working at the same time.

Thanks

Senfgeist  |  June 27th, 2007 at 7:10 am

And what about the 24p-Update? Very many owners of LCD-TVs were waiting for an SONY PS3-Update, that forces 24p-Playback? I am disappointed, that this “simple” function is still not implemented in this update…

slerch666  |  June 27th, 2007 at 7:42 am

Can you PLEASE add support for playing other region PS2 games? If you added support for Japanese PS2 games I could sell off my Japanese PS2.

EliasAlucard  |  June 27th, 2007 at 8:15 am

Sony, please do not include AVI support. DivX and XviD support are already supported, just stop encoding to the AVI container and start encoding your DivX and XviD stuff to the mp4 container.

Here’s my firmware codec request for Sony:

* B-Frames, GMC and QPel support in MPEG-4 visual (MPEG-4 ASP).
* Support for very high AAC bitrates (they become corrupt files because the PS3 doesn’t support high AAC bitrates over 320 kbps. Ironically, the PSP supports higher AAC bitrates than PS3).
* Support for custom resolutions in mp4.
* Anamorphic Aspect Ratio support in mp4 (PAR/DAR).
* MPEG-4 Timed Text support (MPEG-4 Part 17)

That’s all for now.

afrosheen  |  June 27th, 2007 at 8:17 am

Nevermind EliasAlucard’s suggestion, we need avi support with all common codecs. Not all of us want to re-encode everything we’ve downloaded or compressed from the last 5 years.

We also need a better browser with faster Flash support. The current browser runs Flash content with all the muscle of a Pentium 90.

Moby  |  June 27th, 2007 at 8:19 am

Thanks for the heads up. I really only miss one feature. Folders. The way files are organized now makes it hard to have lots of music, videos and photos on the ps3. There should be a way to have folders to organize all. Please fix this asap.

PSheddy  |  June 27th, 2007 at 8:27 am

Though I agree with a lot of these requested firmware upgrades, like in game XMB and playing your own music, and custom backgrounds .. (Only reason is I’m saying this is because I have a reason you’re keeping a tally over there, to see how many people want certain things).. It’s great to see Sony is continually trying to improve and keep people happy…

Also shows great patience to deal with some of the people on here, and constantly being bugged with the same thing minute after minute, haha.

navysealrb  |  June 27th, 2007 at 8:28 am

No need to be an Ass, but can you guys please put up an update with a couple things we really want… i don’t care about 1 codec. I mainly want XMB-in game access with music in games… if I see that really soon, i will be extraordinarily happy!

KeanosMagicHat  |  June 27th, 2007 at 8:33 am

Very disappointed, like many others on here, that there is no talk of a 1080p24 “ON” option for Blu-Ray.

Especially as there are now two Sony manufactured standalone Blu-Ray players, the BDP-S300 and the BDP-S1E, that have a forced 24Hz ON option.

If the PS3 is not updated soon then it would appear to be more to do with marketing strategy than technical capability or user demand.

Please sort this ASAP.

Thank you.

moog  |  June 27th, 2007 at 8:35 am

These incremental upgrades are nice, and a step in the right direction. Thank you.

What I’d like to see is the artificial restriction of blocking playback of PAL DVDs in the US. The PS3 blocks them even if they’re region free.

Has it not occurred to sony that families live in different countries and send each other home movies.

Sure, I can use a cheap DVD player instead, but that’s yet another device to keep hooked up and another input lost on the HDTV.

aaquib  |  June 27th, 2007 at 8:38 am

I think I can sum it up when I say we want the following features:

-In game XMB with accessbility to Music, Photos, Friends list, and Settings

- All PS3 games upscaled to atleast 1080i

- Custom wallpapers

- More refined Playstation Store, with lots of 3rd party content

- Clock on the XMB

EliasAlucard  |  June 27th, 2007 at 8:42 am

No, we do not need AVI support. AVI is simply a container. There is already DivX/XviD support in the PS3, it’s called MPEG-4 Part 2. There is no good reason to hassle Sony for AVI support. It’s too much work, it breaks standards, and it would only hurt the industry standards, in this case, MPEG-4, if Sony added AVI support. I don’t care if you have been encoding with the AVI container for years, it’s not worth breaking standards over it.

Why do you want Sony to act like Microsoft by breaking standards?

Also, telling Sony to “never mind” my statements is arrogant. I know what I’m talking about when it comes to codecs, you don’t.

jlocker  |  June 27th, 2007 at 8:45 am

Here are some more thoughts, would like to see some namco games and other arcade games on SOE, Online needs to come up quickly to the level or closer to the level of xbox live. I would like to see some popup clock in the xbar and in the game to find out what time it is when I am playing games late at night with the lights off, like you do with popup menus when you are watching a DVD or Blu-ray movie. Other features could popup over the game and pause the game to halt the game while you read the information.
I like the idea of using your own image for the xbar background interface.
Compatibility with Apple iChat for chating online. Better email support sync with mail systems.

Thanks for the great system updates keep them comming.

gumbico  |  June 27th, 2007 at 8:46 am

XVID - for the love of god, is that too much to ask for?

spangles 2  |  June 27th, 2007 at 8:47 am

CUSTOM SOUNDTRACKS OVER ALL GAMES. DO NOT LEAVE THIS UP TO DEVELOPERS AS THEY WANT US TO LISTEN TO THEIR MUSIC ONLY.

NO CUSTOM SOUNDTRACK EQUALS HEADACHE FROM THE TERRIBLE MUSIC IN MOTORSTORM