1.5 update causing DVD/Blu-ray playback issues?

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm problems problems more dam sony problems AS PER USUAL EVERY DAM GENERATION hmmmm.....

everyone buys ps1
terrable long loadtimes

sneeze it willl break build qoality

dredfull controller

then the next generation
everyone buys ps2

sneeze it will break build qoality

terrable long loadtimes

outdated terable controller

and the present day the usual sony bullshit just keeps on turning

and you people keep on buying

GET YOUR BRAINS TESTED SONY FANBOYS

JUST GET WITH THE PROGRAMME AND GET A WII

Please go to the wii fanboy site and stay there...

Or are you so bored with the wii already that you deside to go bash other sites??

Please learn to use spellchecker or at least pick up 3rd grade spelling. I am sure you will go far with that mastery of the English Language. Have fun with your Wii.

Tell these people to clean the discs. I had the same problem until I cleaned the discs and no problems there after.


To the Wii guy - At least our updates don't brick our system.

hmm n64 lets get a game published by someone other than nintendo. Oh wait there are none.

gamecube. Oh my gosh same thing.

Maybe people but a system for games which nintendo has very few of besides themselves.

Most developers are not saying the wii is great, we should develop for it. They are saying how about we port games and then make games for the ps3 and 360. Boo Hoo nintendo system loses again.

No problems here.. what did i miss?

I'm not surprised. I predicted the Blu-ray drive would be of crap quality, because for both the price and the problems the PS2 drive had. Tried using it as a DVD player and it wouldn't stop skipping.

This is the Blu-ray "bargain" player. What do you freaking expect?

And Wii is not the answer. It has the drive to sell consoles, but the games are where it's going to hurt in a few months.

Wiimotes are a creative dev's wet dream but a money making dev's worst nightmare. Of course, Nintendo is going to make enough bank that they will stay around. No one is more profitable than Nintendo.

I had no problems till that 1.5 so called upgrade. Now that I have 1.5 in my PS3, I have had many screen freezes during playback of Blu-ray and standard DVD. They (Sony) need to fix this before the PS3 really becomes a joke.

1.5 broke my wireless internet. Ever since I updated it, my PS3's been giving me some crap about not being able to resolve the name server. What's even more strange is that I can still surf the interwebs.

I've had no problems and I've played a couple movies since the update.

And Edge of Blade, the PS3's blu-ray drive is considered one of the best on the market. All HD mag/site reviews I've read comparing the PS3's blu-ray playback/speed to any of the commerical ones have been highly positive. If Sony had included an IR port on the PS3, it would probably be considered the BEST blu-ray player on the market.

-Colin

Yes, freezes here.

The strange part is that it freezes only for 5-10 seconds, then resumes. Were it a scratched disk, it would freeze permanenty, freeze then skip, or skip. This is a pause in playback, and a resume right where it left off.

Glad to hear I'm not the only one with this issue.

-Pie

I lied about my network problem, it seems to have resolved itself.

I haven't had any problems yet. I played Saw 3 (dvd format) and it skipped one during the movie. I checked the disc and there was a smugged on it so the disc may perhaps needed to be clean.

No freezes or skips, but I must say, BD picture quality hasn't been what I expected. Cable HDTV looks better and progressive DVDs don't look any worse.

#7, hate to break it to you, but your horribly mistaken. The BR drive in the PS3 is not going to be much different from the drives in any machine. What is going to be different is how a machine reads what it pulls off the disc. Stand alone players will have to have dedicated systems to read the data. The PS3 Cell processor was powerful enough to read the data on its own, and does a fine job of it. It is in no way a "bargain bin" player, and several home theater review sites have rated it as one of the best players on the market at the moment.

If anything is bargain bin, its this stupid looking external HD-DVD drive that I have to plug in with USB and still can't get 1080p out of on the X360. I own both systems, and yet I would never pick that piece of junk up. Might have been a good idea for MS not to have rushed their system to the market and they wouldn't be having so many problems with bricked systems, faulty controllers, Live Marketplace lock ups, and add ons that should have been built into the system in the first place. But no one wants to talk about the MS issues because they are too busy giving blow jobs to Gates and bashing on the PS3.

No problems so far... *crosses fingers*

How is the blu-ray drive in the PS3 cheap? In professional reviews, they've said it produces better images than all standalone players that were available at the time. It's not a "cheap" blu-ray player. It's a subsidized one, which is vastly different...

@wiidudeuk2007
We sony "fanboys" need to get our brains checked? You need to worry about your own brain if you cannot spell simple words like "terrible" or "quality." I never knew "terrible" was such a terribly hard word to spell.

@JHRacing
I have cable HDTV, and I can tell the difference between the quality of HDTV and Blu-ray. It's not an exclusively blu-ray problem or an hd-dvd problem if you experience bad picture quality. There are a lot of factors - most notable is how well the disc was encoded by the studio or whatever.
It also depends on your hardware (i.e. low quality display unit or miscalibrated video processor, etc) and to a small extent, your cables. Screen size and distance from image, too, will determine how much of a difference you can tell between different resolutions. On a 5" screen, it would be hard to tell any difference between 480i, 480p, 720p, or 1080p.
On a 119" screen (like I have), there is a large amount of difference between 1080i (cable hdtv) and even 720p (the limit of my projector). 1080i produces an inferior image to 720p

And finally, if firmware "broke" or made a mistake with blu-ray playback... firmware can fix it. It's not the worst thing in the world to have to download firmware every one in a while.
Freaking retards.
Each console will have its advantages and of course its own fanbase. Why bash on others? Who cares what other people freaking buy? Let's say even if the PS3 were objectively inferior to the Xbox360 or Wii... why does that matter so much to you fools that I purchased one, and I enjoy playing it? Is it because you are deeply concerned with my spending habits? So please... just shut the hell up once and for all.

I come to this blog because I want to see PS3 news. I don't want to freaking see pre-teens leaving retardedly incoherant and typo-ridden comments.

I just wanted to add a few more things.
I bought my PS2 in 2000, and it still works fine to this day. For the mentally challenged (like the first poster), that is nearly 7 years of good functionality.
How is that terrible build quality? I mean I'm sure some people had bad experiences, but that's not everyone. Sony is a respectable company - as is Nintendo and Microsoft. There are many reasons why Sony was so successful with the PS2... it still sells more than any other console by far. The PS3 will also be successful given some time.

wow u guys suck ...just waiting for somethin to go wrong with sony...this is like the 4th firmware update huh?? how many of them caused problems oh just one...how many systems are blowing up none that i kno of, overheating no...so 1 problem now its death to sony?? is that what you are saying?

Heh... You Wii fanboys sure love knocking sony hu? I guess the instant reaction to something like this would be something along the lines of "You should have bought a Wii! You wouldn't be having these problems since it can't play dvds OR blueray thus no playback issues to worry about!"

Fanboy-ism is just getting out of hand.. i think all a fanboy is, is someone who could only afford to buy one next-gen system and is talking trash about the others to justify why they "didn't WANT to buy such a LAME system anyways"

SPIN CONTROL:

just found out the wii uses non standard component video output so it displays garbage/turns displays off on various hdtvs

http://forums.nintendo.com/nintendo/board/message?board.id=wii_tech&message.id=24096&view=by_date_ascending&page=1

19 pages long. maybe Nintendo should acknowledge the problem.

Regarding image quality of HDTV vis a vis BluRay the latter operates at a much higher bit rates than either broadcast or cable/Sat and also include far superior audio. If you are experiencing inferior image quality on BluRay(you must use the same source material to compare it to HDTV)there is something wrong with your connection or you display may be forcing the PS3 to downrez.

As for the PS3 as a Blu Ray player it will not compete with a decently built dedicated player. From a recent review of the Pioneer BDP HD1:

"There isn't any doubt in my mind now that both the Sony BDP-S1 and the Pioneer Elite offer a superior image to the PS3, which is no criticism of the game console at all"

Full review of Pioneer: http://www.ultimateavmag.com/hddiscplayers/1206piobdphd1/

As for 720P looking superior to 1080i it certainly can if your display and source material are both natively 720p. A 720p will be forced to scale 1080i material which can absolutely degrade image quality. Also note that progressive images (the p in 720p) tend to deal with motion better than interlaced signals so in the case of sports and video games 720p can indeed look better and render a smoother image than 1080i.

Yep, I've got the 1.5 freezing problem too. Happened twice while watching Talladega Nights. Each time the movie froze for about 6-10 seconds and then continued on. Didn't matter what buttons I pressed on the remote.
==60 gig PS3 with wireless network==

I have experienced these freezes on dvd and on downloaded hd content from the playstation store such as trailers etc. I haven't tried a Bluray disc as I haven't got any. I don't think it is due to a dirty disc. Every dvd I tried pauses for around 0.5 - 1 second every couple of minutes. HD content freezes randomly for up to 2 - 3 secs but not every time.
Should I contact sony directly?

I own: PS1, PSone, PS2, PSP, and going to buy a PS3 (don't worry, i have other systems too.). Terrible build quality? Yeah right. All of the above work fine, excluding the PS1 which has little trouble with scratched discs, non-scratched work fine. Count the years from PS1 PAL launch to 2007...
To the topic. owning a 768p screen just feels a little... silly... 720p is less than the optimal resolution, but I gess it'll do. I wonder, why this screen scales 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, but NOT 1080p? I wonder can I put WXGA resolution on PS3 w/ linux?

Back off-topic. Wii, 360 are awesome(to wii this applies for the first 2 hours, tested.). Really, is there any other serious game for Wii than Zelda, and gamecube has that too O_o The 360, I was a inch close to buying one because ofgetting tired of the waiting and waiting and waiting.. Anyway. It seems that Ps3 would be cheaper for me.
360 (with hd, ofcourse) + WLAN (I don't really have a ethernet socket at my tv) + Hd-dvd player (would be the cheapest hd-disc solution if I had a 360)
VS.
PS3
Ofcourse if I didn't want all those features, I'd be playing Test Drive Unlimited by now.

Now then, loong, booring post. Spotted a typo? Please ignore it. Spotted a grammar mistake? I'm listening.

Heh...

"All HD mag/site reviews I've read comparing the PS3's blu-ray playback/speed to any of the commer..."

Blah Blah Blah. You could make a Blu-ray drive out of cardboard and get it to pass magazine reviews. It doesn't matter what the picture looks like if it starts screwing up in the market like this. It doesn't matter what someone who could be bought off thinks when it comes to Sony. If you consider what Sony is ethically capable of, then you start to suspect everyone of being paid off.

Umm...
For watching sports (which is mostly what I watch HDTV for), 720p is far superior to 1080i because of progressive vs interlaced scan...
I have a 63" Samsung DLP, and I think 720p looks better... because objectively it's a better format for fast moving objects.
http://www.greathometheater.com/1080i-vs-720p.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/720p

And also... ABC uses 720p, not 1080i.
ESPN also uses 720p.
So it appears you don't know what you're talking about, Rob.

No problems here, Blu-Ray discs, DVDs, or games. That includes numerous PS2 titles as well now.

I have this problem as well... I have been trying to trouble-shoot it and I believe it only occurs when I have my PS3 connected via HDMI (to component YBR). I have switched back to plain old analog RCA video and it seems to be fine. The 1.5 update appears to break DVD playback on HDMI to component. Can anyone verify this?

mine today just shutted off while playback on a dvd. just pure dead shut off. and then i just turned the hard switch off and on than turned it back on acted if nothing ever happened... dk what that means..

Just watched Open Season on Blu Ray and it froze 4 times for about 20 seconds each time, skipped a tiny bit on each occasion too. Pretty annoying. Hope Sony is aware. I have the most recent firmware (1.51) which I was hoping is a fix to this, but it isn't.

Mine has been skipping ever since the upgrade on regular and Blu ray. Is there any way to go back to the original settings and remove the update?

I don't know if this has been mentioned before but as far as firmware glitches are concerned the only thing i've noticed so far is my DVD/BD settings onscreen display pops up at random times. That is the menu you get by pressing triangle. Could this be an update glitch or is my controller just acting whacky? Its annoying having to turn it off while watching a DVD...

I have the same dvd playback problems with both my 360 and playstation3... Im starting to think that its some sort of problems with the consoles trying to up convert the quality of the dvd... Im basing this on the fact that no matter what dvd I played (new or semi scratched) in either system (ms or sony) I've had the same problems... And the only thing that I read about the systems they have in common is that they can quasi (sp?) upgrade the quality of dvd and previous generation games (xbox and ps2). I put my theory to the test by attempting to play Tekken 5 (DVD format of course)... Guess what??? Same exact 5-10 freezes. So!!!!! Anyone thinking along my line of thought??? Or am I thiking too far outside the box???