Comments on: Firmware 2.5 Details

By: Ron P.

Ron P. — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:45:23 +0000

Hay…Playstation Makers, Producers, CEO’s. I have been a “proud” devouted Playstation owner 15 plus years. What the crap are you guies doing?.! First you split the system in two.! (ps2 vs. new games w/blue ray player). You get hung up with shipments from overseas, then you haggle over gigabites and cost – which at one point made gaming distatefull. Why, because paying $600. for an upgrade with few games to choose from was idiotic!. You gave alot of buisness to x-box.!
You guies forgot what made you great in the first place. You made a greate system that the people could enjoy. Games that people loved to play – On ONE system.!. Stop haggeling your customers on gigabites. Find a cost effective way to upgrade your system. And if you cant do that and purchasing a new system will be expensive. The least you can do is make it worth my while…… I would hate to have to cross over to x-box.
Your devouted customer.
OH by the way, Blue Ray is nice but its not all that……Keep the visual detailing to the gaming portion.

RON.

By: informer

informer — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:25:24 +0000

I have heard the PS3 version of Batman Arkham Ayslum has multiple bugs and glitches thats why they had added the Joker to the PS3 version too try and boost sales for that version.

By: Angelo

Angelo — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:32:33 +0000

MKV? When can we get MKV container support. It’s now even supported by DIVX which is apparently officially supported by the PS3!

By: nick

nick — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:57:35 +0000

Yes I’m getting skipping on some divx with 2.50 where-as I did not get it before.

By: MathiasLM

MathiasLM — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:21:47 +0000

I noticed these things:

- DivX now tends to lack, when watching via WiFi – it played perfectly before the update.
- MP4 (H.264/AAC) -files still lack, when watching via WiFi, but at least they don’t make the PS3 crash as they did before…
- When watching a movie, if you press the playstation-button, it automatically pauses the movie, instead for letting it run in the background, as it did before – WHY?

The end result is, as you can see, much worse than it was before. Nice 1 Sony…

By: H

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:37:09 +0000

Stuttering seems to have stopped! Streamed a 1/2 hour episode of TRS in mp4 with no issue. Finally the fix!

By: EricK

EricK — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:17:11 +0000

Any word on whether this fixes the stuttering issue when streaming mp4 files over a wireless network?

By: JimmyStewart

JimmyStewart — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:41:55 +0000

This update was pretty awesome. I first read of the details and didn’t think much of it, some useful features but things I already had on the 360. Nice to have them on the PS3 too but still it’s hard to get really excited about them. But I’ve gotta say I LOVE the scene search tool.
And the best feature I didn’t see coming is the auto-off feature. I heard power-saving, but didn’t realize that’s what it meant. My wife is notorious in our household for leaving the PS3 on all night after falling asleep through a DVD. This avoids that argument entirely. Playstation, keeping marriages together!
And of course the Flash update is pretty huge. We were just trying to get our PS3 setup to watch the Presidential debates since we don’t have TV but we ran into issues with the older version of the Flash player. We ended up just a TV antenna and firing up the Tivo again, but it’s still nice to know the PS3 now has an option to view TV shows instantly and legally through sites like Hulu. I’ll stick with free HD from the antenna, but it’s good to know there’s an alternate option! Especially for older TV.

By: nobody

nobody — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:08:53 +0000

I was expecting subtitle support in M2TS files or AVI files. Damn! It’s hard when you rip your foreign DVD collection for PS3-viewing purposes but with no subtitles on. How hard is this?

Something about the volume: It’s nice we now have more volume levels, but shouldn’t we be able to change the volume level from the BD remote control when video is playing (volume up, volume down buttons) instead of pressing triangle -> go to Volume -> click left or right ??

C’mon SONY! I want these by Xmas 2008!

By: Glitch

Glitch — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:30:58 +0000

Oh Nevermind. The store is taken offline for maintenance according to the official PS3 blog.