[PS3] PlayStation 3 Discussion Thread

After my second last post I wasn't going anywhere with it and had come to a conclusion, lol, oh well. Don't worry about it Jazz I get it now. Thanks for the continued effort to explain it though ^^

UPDATE:
Just some things that I wanted to name off here that I don't think have been mentioned about the PS3's V1.80 update.

First is that you can now stream music, video, and pictures as long as you have a DLNA compliant piece of software. RYU has pointed out one method of achieving this, another way is by adding the PS3 to your Windows MediaPlayer 11 Media Sharing list.

Next thing is that BR-DVDs are now downscaled to 720P/720i/480p, basically whatever your display setting is set at instead of the old 1080p/i OR 480i ONLY option.

And lastly, one that I've been waiting for is that you can now use your PS2 memory cards to transfer data not only off, but now TO the cards. Meaning that we now have a use for them again to keep backups of our saves, or to transport our saves to our friends places and use them on their PS2 with our CURRENT files. No more having to carry my PS3 around to play my PS2 games just so that I have access to my saves. YAY!!!

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Argh, I wanted to wait until fall when all the good games were supposed to be availabe (and of course I was hoping for a price drop), but now the possibility to watch all my DVDs in HD is making things much more complicated =/

Has anyone made experience with the DVD upscaling so far? I'm talking about movies, not PSX/PS2 games.

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Does the new PS3's upscaling doohickey upscale to 1080i, or just 720p and 1080p?

My display doesn't do 1080p ;_; but games (assuming they'r nextgen) look really beautiful at 1080i so I don't think I'm missing much.

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First impressions:

FF VII [PSX] without upscaling:


FF VII [PSX] with upscaling:


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Did you buy a PS3 already?

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Aardark

Did you buy a PS3 already?

No, not yet. But this is getting more and more attractive. I mean, this upscaling feature sounds pretty cool. You could also wonder whether it's necessary to get Blu-Ray discs after all when the difference between Blu-Ray and upscaled DVDs is probably very small. It won't be cheaper until October anyway. The only problem I see is that the backward compability still pretty much sucks ass. Though I read that Grandia works, so who knows...

edit: Elixir, the announcement said that the PS3 could upscale UP TO 1080p, which means that 1080i and 720p should be included as well, I guess.

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for the backward compability I heard that the 1.80 firmware did a pretty good job to erase some bug, now all metal gear games pass without any bug, FFX and FFX-2 now only have problem in the cg scene (the video read a little slower then they should) but apparently there's no more any bug in game. That's what my friend said.

I think it shouldn't take that long before those problem disappear.

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There is much improvement as far as DVDs are concerned, some as far as PS2 games are concerned (depending on the game, I can't see any difference with FFX but Burnout: Revenge looks awesome, for instance) and PSX games like Grandia don't exactly run in "high definition" mode now but it's pretty nice. There is not a single PS2 game (well I don't have much, but sttill) which makes problems, which is pretty cool, too.

My screen can't display 1080p, but 1080i looks pretty good!

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Is there a way to play DivX .avi files on my PS3 over the network feature? I think I've heard of other people doing this, but they wern't using the WMP media service to cennect their PC to their PS3. So what program do I need and how do I set this up?

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Nero MediaHome and TwonkyMedia are popular DLNA server software.

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Wow. I was literally just going to ask about this. That is fucking creepy.

So with these DLNA servers, should I theoretically be able to stream ALL of my music, videos and pictures to my PS3 downstairs? Do I just set up the DLNA software on my PC, and then search for it on my PS3? I really need to get this thing working.

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So.. watching .avi files on your PS3 through streaming should be possible?

What exactly does DLNA server require (physically) to work, will a WLAN do or does it need some other wireless add-on?

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Originally Posted by BlueBomber

So with these DLNA servers, should I theoretically be able to stream ALL of my music, videos and pictures to my PS3 downstairs? Do I just set up the DLNA software on my PC, and then search for it on my PS3? I really need to get this thing working.

Originally Posted by Qwarky

So.. watching .avi files on your PS3 through streaming should be possible?

I think it's possible through transcoding at the moment, though support for DivX/XviD playback might just be added to one of the future firmwares, if Sony keeps up their current course of awesome updates.

Originally Posted by Qwarky

What exactly does DLNA server require (physically) to work, will a WLAN do or does it need some other wireless add-on?

Of course. DLNA works over anything that supports the TCP/IP and UDP protocol, from what I know. Your PS3 and PC just need to be on the same network. Port forwarding is being taken care of automatically through UPnP.

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Originally Posted by Rock

Of course. DLNA works over anything that supports the TCP/IP and UDP protocol, from what I know. Your PS3 and PC just need to be on the same network. Port forwarding is being taken care of automatically through UPnP.

So if I have my PC connected by cable to a router with WLAN, and my PS3 (and PSP) connects, they'll be in separate networks?

And I severely doubt they'll be including divx support, ever, because of whatever licensing crap made them leave it out of PSP and PS3 in the first place.

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your PS3 just has to be hooked up to the same router, whether it be wired or wireless as the PC you want to stream from. Unfortunately, unless you know how to do port forwarding and what not, router hopping can be complicated, so just keep the two things on one router.

as for the .avi thing, you should be able to watch them as long as they're not DivX encoded like most are nowadays. However with some research and a reference to a previous post for instructions, it seems that Nero MediaHome is the best way to accomplish this. While there could be other programs, a lot of the services out there (ie. Windows Media Player) don't have decoders for their server service, where MediaHome does have these decoders. So if you have Nero Ultra, just follow the following instructions (which were also posted earlier) and you should be able to watch almost any format on your PS3.

http://reviews.cnet.com/playstation-...-31880501.html

P.S.
I've heard that lossless WMA files also don't work on the PS3 with most services. This program could also possibly fix that issue too.

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Isn't it possible to connect the PS3 directly to the computer without using any router?

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Originally Posted by Musharraf

Isn't it possible to connect the PS3 directly to the computer without using any router?

Is there any indication as to why it would not be possible?

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I've been playing a lot of Calling All Cars recently (Awesome game. Get it). Whenever I log on to do some online multiplayer, it only shows about 9 or so people playing. Does it only show people that are around my area with the best possible connections, or is there really only 9 people playing this fucking game across all of America.

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Originally Posted by Rock

Is there any indication as to why it would not be possible?

Well no, I was just wondering because everyone was talking about using a router (?)

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That's mostly because if you want to network and keep your internet connection, or unless you have two network cards, you need a router.

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Ok im thinking of my impending PS3 purchase, and Id like some opinions on whether now is a good enough time to buy it or should I wait for some upgrade that may come in the near future (like this year). Im thinking rumble controllers and other such things i hear are in the future.

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Originally Posted by Cat9

Ok im thinking of my impending PS3 purchase, and Id like some opinions on whether now is a good enough time to buy it or should I wait for some upgrade that may come in the near future (like this year). Im thinking rumble controllers and other such things i hear are in the future.

I was in the same situation a week ago. Originally, I wanted to get it in October when the first good games are announced to finally be available. But the latest firmware update 1.80 brought so many cool features, especially the upscaling feature, and I came to the conclusion that there was no difference between buying it now for 600€ and buying it in October for 600€.

It's pretty much like that: If you primarily want a gaming console, it's not the right time yet because besides two or three games, the game lineup is pretty much a disaster, that's why I don't have a PS3 game yet either. But if you want a nice Blu-Ray player and a DVD-player with extremely good upscaling, this might be interesting for you (needless to say, you gonna need a good TV for that). The upscaling of PSX/PS2 games isn't that spectacular, but you can see a difference, at least I did.

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Oh god I am confused. I don’t mean to take this thread off track or anything, but I was just wondering if somebody could help me out.

So I understand that Windows Media Player 11 can work as a DLNA server. I set everything up on my computer (which is wired to the router), but couldn’t detect my PS3 (which is wireless to the router) from my computer. I went down to my PS3, and was surprised that it had found the server that my computer was running, but it still would not allow me to access any of my music files.

So, I took out my laptop, which also has a wireless connection, and set the exact same thing up on there, and it worked flawlessly. Basically, my wireless laptop can stream media to my wireless PS3, but my wired PC cannot stream media to my wireless PS3. Everything is going through the same router.

Is there a common problem when going from wired to wireless, or something? Is there a simple setting that I don’t know of that probably needs to be checked? Any help would be awesome.

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So you can get;
Laptop --> Router --> PS3 to work, but not
PC --> Router --> PS3

Well unless you didn't allow the PS3 on your WMP 11 on your PC but you did on the laptop, that would do it. Pretty much anything else wouldn't have even let you detect it, not a "cannot access" error.

Can anyone else think of what might be the problem?

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On my PC, when I go into the sharing settings in Windows Media Player, I can't even find the PS3 to enable it. However, on my laptop I can find the PS3 just fine.

I'm just confused because when I search for Media Servers on the PS3, it finds the server on my PC, but won't let me access anything from it (I assume it's because I never enabled sharing to the PS3 from my PC, but I can't enable sharing as my PC can't detect my PS3 ). CONFUSING.

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