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New PS3 firmware update coming soon News
PlayStation 3 News by Ellie Gibson
Another PS3 firmware update is "coming soon", according to the US PlayStation blog.
Once you've installed update 2.80, "The playback quality of some PlayStation 3 format software has been improved."
The update's not available yet though - we just checked - so you'll have to put up with the slightly less good playback quality of some PlayStation 3 format software in the meantime.
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drewman5150
24/06/09 @ 08:36
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Exactly what does "improve the playback quality of some PS3 software" mean?
Does anybody really know, and if it's only "some" software, then surely it would make sense to check to see whether I've actually got said "some" software, and not bother wasting my time and bandwidth. |
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It's already out. It's up but not yet obligatory, so if you manually go to 'Update Software' you'll get it. The overall performance of just about everything that has to do with online stuff seems to be improved. Trophy synching is much faster for instance. Also the browser is much faster - I don't know whether that is through a new browser version, better netcode (could be in-line with the rest of the performance upgrades) or both, but just try and load up Eurogamer or neogaf or anything else and you'll see what I mean. Eurogamer also hasn't crashed yet - it's lately been the only site that managed to get the PS3 browser stuck for me once in a while. But then again, it also broke 3 out of 5 PC browsers, so that may be Eurogamer's own fault.
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seasidebaz
24/06/09 @ 08:43
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Exactly what does "improve the playback quality of some PS3 software" mean?
Does anybody really know, and if it's only "some" software, then surely it would make sense to check to see whether I've actually got said "some" software, and not bother wasting my time and bandwidth. It does exactly what it says. It improves playback quality of some PS3 software. One of these came out before and made Uncharted run better with far less tearing. |
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"The playback quality of some PlayStation 3 format software has been improved."
I think its just a catch-all phrase for when they don't want to talk about what's actually in the update. Previous updates that have actually been to fix game problems have incremented the version number by small amounts, the last couple of these updates have had largish updates numbers, the version number has jumped quite a bit over the last few updates leading me to start the rumour mill that these updates actually contain more than Sony is letting on, and could be building blocks for the eventual release of 3.0 or perhaps the film download service for Europe.
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boggissimo
24/06/09 @ 09:18
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On the UK site it says exactly the same thing for v2.76: "The playback quality of some PLAYSTATION 3 software has been improved."
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I actually use the PS3 browser, I find it quite handy. Although it's a bugger for hanging and erractic display formatting, especially on sites that are quite Javascript intensive. I would welcome improvements to it.
I'm also looking forward to the next "big" firmware update - any rumours on what might be in it yet? |
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I think if you look at how the chat-room works that was added a few versions ago, it does seem very likely that they'll use the framework to set up voice chat eventually. I'm definitely not discounting that rumor for 3.0. However I also really don't care! I'd rather they add Skype support to XMB or something like that, to be honest. Now that would be useful. ;)
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makeamazing
24/06/09 @ 12:06
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Wonder if it will fix the random DNS errors problem, according to SKY its a Sony problem... this doesnt sound like a fix for that :D
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@NoQuarter
If your downloads/updates are taking 20 minutes then I will assume you are using the wireless network. A wired PS3 connection with about 4MB broadband takes me about 4-5 mins max There is talk on Forums that suggest the PS3 wireless card throttles. I have experienced this, though I have colleagues that use wireless and are okay but this maybe HW revision dependent. (I have a day 1 PS3) If wireless downloads are a problem may I suggest hard wiring into an Apple Express station and then connecting to a 802.11n network base somewhere else. THis is what I did and it works a treat. I can even stream AirTunes (Itunes over Wireless) at the same time as the download with no reduction in performance/quality
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I don't understand how the PS3's wifi is so shit. When mine updates it takes well over an hour on 3Mbit broadband. If I go to the Sony site on my PC I can download the software update in a few minutes. Which is useless because the PS3 denies that its present if I put it on a USB key and insert it!
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Each firmware update compress further and further and optimizes the OS ,so it frees some memory and "improves the playback quality of software ".Thats ,less frame rate problems etc .
The real reason the PS3 versions are up to par with 360 versions in multiplattform titles these days is because Sony has managed to reduce (even augmenting features ) the OS from the original 96 Mb to some 40-something in 2.76 ...its starting to get close to the 360 32mb of OS and we can see the results. |
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Rumours abound that this update has something to do with voice in it somewhere. Can someone confirm this for me please: Does the new update lock the microphone volume level to 3? It's something I've heard but can't confirm till 5 tonight :)
Could well be there's more to this update than we suspected. Maybe something for the future *ahem* *cross game chat* *ahem*? |
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drewman5150
24/06/09 @ 15:14
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@diomedes if this is the case, then I can see why the "playback quality" would improve - see, that's all Sony have to say "We've reduced the footprint of the OS so there's more memory available, further updates will continue this trend where possible"
Maybe I should send my CV to Sony PR... |
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ArcticMonkey
24/06/09 @ 17:34
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@yegon:
Chances of MKV support are there. DivX has added MKV support and the Sony has licensed DivX for PS3. |
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I wish they'd do something when playing 4:3 content on Blu-ray - its often used for supplements, especially archive stuff taken from old DVDs, and the PS3 insists on playing it in widescreen through HDMI. Being as their DVD software is clever enough not to do this, why can't their Blu-ray software?
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man.the.king
25/06/09 @ 03:08
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@Johnsters
"There is talk on Forums that suggest the PS3 wireless card throttles. I have experienced this, though I have colleagues that use wireless and are okay but this maybe HW revision dependent. (I have a day 1 PS3) " Not for me. I have a 60 GB US launch model as well and have used WiFi ever since I got it. WiFi speed has never been an issue for me. The update takes place in a few minutes. |
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3william56
25/06/09 @ 05:49
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Stephen - did you put the firmware file into the correct folder on your USB key (drive:/PS3/UPDATE)? I've never had a problem (hurrah for saving download quotas by getting it at work).
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man.the.king
26/06/09 @ 02:55
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@Johnsters
Could be. Myself, I don't have any wireless router outside of the 2Wire router that was supplied by AT&T with their DSL connection, and to my recollection, no update has ever taken more than 6-7 minutes, with the updates usually averaging at 4-5 minutes. |
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@2099net
I wish they'd do something when playing 4:3 content on Blu-ray - its often used for supplements, especially archive stuff taken from old DVDs, and the PS3 insists on playing it in widescreen through HDMI. Being as their DVD software is clever enough not to do this, why can't their Blu-ray software? Sounds like you have the BD/DVD Upscaler set to "Full Screen" instead of "Normal" (720p) or "Double" (1080p). Either that or your TV is doing it for you (ensure it's set to "Wide", "Widescreen" or "16:9", depending on the make). I just checked some 4:3 features a couple of seconds ago (2001: A Space Odyssey BD) and they play in proper 4:3 with black borders to the left and right. |
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3william56
26/06/09 @ 08:37
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It's actually a bl**dy good and important update - makes the XMB a lot snappier, but the big news is that the web browser is finally up to (near) PC speeds and now usable as a first choice internet viewer (except for really heavy pages). Don't understand why the 3rd place console doesn't make a decent song and dance when it's updated, particularly when it really sorts out or adds something the competition doesn't do.
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