PS3 2.40 / 2.41 update adds Blu-ray upscaling, audio playback tweaks
The latest PlayStation 3 2.4x firmware update added more than just the long-awaited in-game XMB access. Upscaling from Blu-ray discs is now supported, allowing the system to deinterlace 1080i to 1080p on its own, if you have a homemade BDAV formatted disc recorded in less-than-full HD. Retail Blu-ray flicks are BDMV formatted, so for certain discs not in 1080p (mostly concerts), they'll still be played only in their native resolution. Also included is upscaling, frame noise reduction and block noise reduction for video played off the PS3 HDD or external storage media, and DTS-ES and DTS 96/24 compatibility on Blu-ray discs. AVSForum posters are also reporting some DTS-HD 7.1 discs now map to their speakers properly, but as we've seen, your experience may vary.Read - PS3 2.41 System Update
Read - PS3 Firmware 2.4x- Master Thread
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
DEEZNUTZ @ Jul 11th 2008 4:00PM
My next firmware update wish: HDMI-CEC (ala Sony's BRAVIA Theatre-Sync)
Assuming it works as intended, it would allow one to control the PS3 playback over HDMI through either the TV or Receiver.
anon @ Jul 11th 2008 4:17PM
I was just thinking the same thing the other day. They've thrown random things in before, like a few updates ago it would remember where you were in a movie if you stopped it or turned off the PS3.
Alareth @ Jul 11th 2008 4:45PM
Does the PS3 hardware support such a thing? I'm sure there has to be more to it than a few lines of code.
DrXym @ Jul 11th 2008 4:29PM
This is probably more relevant for all the 480p supplemental content that many discs carry. It's too bad Sony screwed up so badly with the original 2.40 update. Whoever is running their QA department or triaging bugs needs a slap on the wrist.
lemcog @ Jul 11th 2008 5:53PM
It doesn't do anything to 480i/p content as far as I can tell, it is PURELY for deinterlacing 1080i.
DrXym @ Jul 11th 2008 6:16PM
It's supposed to upscale content to your screen resolution. So any supplemental features in SD should get upscaled to 720p or 1080p in the process. I haven't personally tried to see if this is the case but its what my understanding is. I think its a fairly minor feature but I've seen at least one person griping about it on a forum before now.
CharlieX @ Jul 11th 2008 8:29PM
Of course it upscales. a 480 DVD gets bumped to 1080 @ 60hz. Does an OK job too.
lemcog @ Jul 11th 2008 9:22PM
We are talking about Blu-ray upscaling, NOT DVD upscaling.
I checked it out, it does not upscale 480 Blu-ray content at all.
Truth Teller @ Jul 11th 2008 9:32PM
Supplemental features in 480i/p!?
Well isn't that funny.
I thought the Blu-ray gang used to spend ages slamming HD DVD for providing some of the extras in SD.
So much for all that extra capacity allowing all the extras to be in high def everytime.
I guess when they only use a 25gb single layer disc (as almost half of Blu-ray releases are) they just don't have the space, eh?
LMAO
lemcog @ Jul 11th 2008 11:14PM
I have plenty of 50 gig disks that have 480 content.
Batman Begins, Hellboy, Batman the Movie (Adam West), Men in Black, Justice League: The New Frontier (this one might be 25 come to think of it) being some of the better 50 gig disks that have 480i/p features I'd like to see with upscaling.
It's why I REALLY want them to add upscaling for Blu-ray content (just adding deinterlacing for 1080i isn't really adding 'upscaling' for Blu-ray), cause some of them have content that doesn't necessarily need to be HD (although we'd all prefer it) but DOES need to be upscaled (bonus episodes, music videos, documentaries, etc.)
DrXym @ Jul 12th 2008 3:46AM
Truth Teller thats a moronic crybaby comment even by your low standards. The reason that content is in 480p is because that's what it was filmed in originally, not because of space limitations.
DrXym @ Jul 12th 2008 10:58AM
Baby, perhaps you think all features and supplementals on virtually all catalog titles are available at 720 or 1080 but you would be wrong. Naturally many new films do feature HD extras but the mass of them don't. You are just compounding your status as village idiot with moronic comments to the contrary. Grow up baby your precious format lost.
Truth Teller @ Jul 12th 2008 1:34PM
Yeah, avoid the point why don't you?
Hilarious.
Your fanboy-ism is as laughable as it is obvious
(and frankly your comments about my 'reputation amongst the PS3/Blu-ray fanboy element also entirely miss the point, I take a pride that those f*ckwit kiddies choke on my views).
You're a bunch of hypocrites, you slammed HD DVD for offering 'extras' in SD when Blu-ray repeatedly does much the same thing.
.....and I'm so glad you keep on wanting to look a tool with your feeble little jibe.
Most amusing (keep on dancing b!tch dance).
The truth is that "your precious format" isn't going anywhere and has also lost
(and you got the shaft on the prices you paid).
http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/07/03/sony-talks-future-of-oled-blu-rays-chances-against-dvd/#readercomments
LMAO at you, mightily.
(shouldn't you be out annoying the neighbours & bringing the place to a standstill today, with it being the 12th and all?)
lemcog @ Jul 12th 2008 7:49PM
Truth Teller, I've had both HD DVD and Blu-ray (and preferred HD DVD), any arguments you are making at this point just sound like fanboy ranting honestly.
I got a new disk today that has some 1080i content on it and THAT isn't even outputting at 1080p, are we sure that feature was added in 2.40/2.41 and wasn't just 'announced' as something to come soon?
lemcog @ Jul 12th 2008 7:49PM
Ok, I figured out what it is.
It ONLY does any sort of video upscaling (don't know if its just 1080i, or any resolution) on BDAVs, HOMEMADE Blu-ray's.
milkyway @ Jul 11th 2008 5:24PM
um, active usb in standby mode please.....
Dan Davis @ Jul 11th 2008 6:13PM
Yeah, at least a trickle!
Mike @ Jul 11th 2008 5:42PM
how about the ability to make a freaking video playlist!
joe @ Jul 11th 2008 7:30PM
Can't you already do that?
I don't even have the latest version(2 back) and I can make audio, and photo lists, can't you also make a video list?
Ripcord83 @ Jul 11th 2008 7:57PM
I'll have to try this out later.
Could we also get the ability to continue d/l's after the system is off?
Sometime i d/l befor work & have to leave the ps3 on til im off work.
I dont really care for that.
Mr. E @ Jul 11th 2008 10:30PM
Well, if we're voting, top of my list is to have the PS3 use the same video upscaling for 480 (and now 1080) video streams from media servers that it uses on physical media.
DrXym @ Jul 12th 2008 4:57AM
I read in some interview with the devs that streaming & file base media go through different code paths and that was the reason for different upscaling. I can't recall what they planned to do about it. It would obviously make sense to unify as much of the pipeline as possible.
corey smith @ Jul 12th 2008 3:26PM
@ Truth Teller: Is there something you have against all high end alternatives to DVDs, or do you singularly dislike the Blu Ray format? Is the format really that bad?
Truth Teller @ Jul 12th 2008 8:31PM
It's a format specifically designed to take us back to a situation where we as consumers do not even have the 'rights' and abilities we had with video recording.
Don't kid yourself, they haven't even started with their 'security' BS yet (they are trying to keep that out of the public eye so as not to scare off the general public).
You might be happy with that but I am not and I'll continue to high-light Blu-ray's short-comings, failings & all round undesirability if I choose, thanks.
......and for those who want to paint this erosion of our 'power' as a type of that idiotic fanboy-ism the game console kiddies go in for it's not just Blu-ray either.
If you look you'll see it in things like the US DoD being involved with Vista and the DRM it entails too.
Fine if you're happy to go along with the 'surveillance society' BS but some of us just won't take this cr@p quietly.
Oooops, I got into 'politics' there didn't I?
So boring.
Nevermind kiddies, go to sleep, nothing to see here, go back to sleep everyone.
LMAO
DrXym @ Jul 13th 2008 3:53AM
Truth Teller (and Nfinity) are rabid HD DVD supporters, with a long history of rants, wishful thinking, laughably wrong predictions and assorted other nonsense. Six months on and they still feel compelled to leap on Blu Ray stories and spin them off into lalaland.
joe @ Jul 12th 2008 10:31PM
TT
You are completly off your rocker.
HD-DVD and BD are both severly anti-consumer because of the incorporation of DRM. Add to that list Xbox live and Itunes.
It's nice that you hate sony and have a hard on against BD I'm sure there is some old fogy that tells you about the increased audio quality of 78's over LP records.
If you are really against DRM and it's reduction of consumer rights you need to take a stand against ALL encoded media that includes your beloxed XBL service along with iTunes and fairly level your critical commenst against HD-DVD as well.
Most of all hearing YOU complain about BD copy protection seems to be the height of cowardness.
You live in a country that is using George Orwells 1984 as govenmental guidebook. There are real things to fight over like nationwide survalance that has been shown to NOT significantly reduce crime.
You sit at home free, for the moment, of camera inside your house while waiting for the 4th wall to be installed. Fighting a bunch of people who you consider infantile fanboys is the most activism you can muster. After going after anything other gaming babies with a corporate love hard on is a lot safer than working for real freedoms.
Politics aren't boring but people who hide from and behind them are.
Truth Teller @ Jul 13th 2008 10:03AM
Joe you might have had a point if you could be certain that all I've ever done was complain about what Blu-ray brings us.
You don't know jack.
When you've stuck you head above the parapet and involved yourself in for years (and very publicly) in party politics in what was not so long ago one of the most dangerous places in the world then you can tell me all about "safety" and who has done or not done anything brave or cowardly.
Wake up & grow up, you don't know a thing about me.
The resident ludicrous tool, Dr F*ckwit, can dismiss all of this as paranoia if he prefers but others know that I'm making a fair point about how Blu-ray is specifically intended to take away freedoms we had all along even with our old video players.
HD DVD was not perfect in this regard either, that is true
(as well as being something I have never denied).
The difference is/was that it's so-called 'protections' were broken fundamentally long ago.
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@ corey smith
"you got F'd in the A!!! "
Projecting you pathetic obvious anal sex obsession?
Yeah, it's OK, it's all just boisterous boys together 'hazing' .......& nobody has guessed, yet.
LMAO
DrXym @ Jul 13th 2008 2:44PM
"The resident ludicrous tool, Dr F*ckwit, can dismiss all of this as paranoia if he prefers but others know that I'm making a fair point about how Blu-ray is specifically intended to take away freedoms we had all along even with our old video players."
Baby, the moronic comments keep flowing from you do don't they? Last time I checked, VHS implemented auto gain control and other schemes, DVD had region encoding & crypto rolled into one and other schemes (e.g. bad sectors on disk), HD DVD implemented AACS for copy protection. It may be that these technologies were flawed in design but the intent of them was absolutely clear. Blu Ray is not especially worse in what it is doing or why. In fact any AACS title is no worse than your precious format. Sure BD+ may make things trickier in future but all it does is delay rather than prevent stripping the content. And nothing in Blu Ray holds a candle to the sort of hideous restrictions that every single Video On Demand / Digital Download service puts on the user.
I personally believe that region encoding and crypto suck but I fully understand why they are there. Some studios want region encoding to simplify distribution rights issues (and of course to protect certain regional disparities). And EVERY STUDIO wants copy protection. Even so about 60-70% of BD discs are region free. Maybe you should try a little exercise in empathy before embarking on your childish tirades. If it bothers you so much, avail yourself of tools like AnyDVD and rip the protection out.
Oh, and grow up baby, your precious format lost.
air12ick @ Jul 13th 2008 1:13AM
Another thing to add to the improvment list:
If you watch videos (non bluray or dvd) it finally bitstreams via HDMI. Before the PS3 would decode the audio and output as PCM stereo via HDMI and Optical Digital out. (I have not test this with the Optical Digital Out yet). So now watching those trailers from the PlayStation Store can sound much better.
DrXym @ Jul 13th 2008 3:45AM
"You're a bunch of hypocrites, you slammed HD DVD for offering 'extras' in SD when Blu-ray repeatedly does much the same thing."
I've never said any such thing and I don't recall anyone else saying it either. Do you have any more cretinous straw men arguments up your sleeves? Grow up baby your precious format lost.
DrXym @ Jul 13th 2008 2:47PM
So perhaps baby can find the link where I claim that supplementals are only 480p on HD DVD because of space limitations. Come on baby, surely you can do that. Or just admit that you're lying like usual.
joe @ Jul 13th 2008 5:36PM
TT-
What ever you may have done in the past is obsucred by the internet. All I can judge you by is your current actions. While at one time you may have had bravery and valor you have left those values behind.
You chose to fight your current battle against people you feel are children or childlike. Many battle field heros have come home to abuse their wives or children. Picking fights with the feeble,week and child like show a distinct lack of bravery or valor.
It is certain that if in the past you were involved in politics you have left all of the skills of the statesman or politician long behind you and are only left with a shallow skillset of insults, mockery and smugness.
If you are truthful then you can be the story of a true tradegety. A once great man who fought in a dangerous political climate who is reduced to pathetic hateful arguments against those who are below him on an internet chat board about toys for adults; tilting at windmills and loosing.
Truth Teller @ Jul 13th 2008 6:08PM
Oh for God's sakes Joe, dry your eyes, wind you neck in a tad & cut out the melodrama.
It's a comments section on a public site where until recently we had agang of Blu-ray fanboys mocking the HD DVD buyers as "retards" etc etc.
They are simply reaping precisely what they sowed and it's kind of fun to show them up for the hypocrites they are.
It's also reasonably amusing to see the excuses as the format they championed falls flat on it's face too.
DrXym @ Jul 13th 2008 6:14PM
Thanks baby for admitting you have no evidence, none whatsoever to suggest I said any such thing. Not surprising really as I didn't. As usual baby just pulled his stupid lies out of his backside.
Grow up baby your precious format lost.