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Posted: May 24th 2007 11:07PM (Unverified) said

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r those all PS3 issues with the DLNA stuff? Sounds like a mix of PS3 and the other software. glad the music worked. hopefully it will get there soon with the rest. are people really playing ps1 games on ps3 on hd? seems weird to me.

Posted: May 24th 2007 11:20PM chrisgrant said

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Yeah, the issues seem to all be DLNA related -- I don't think there's any problem with the PS3's support for it. We'll just have to wait until either a) apps come out that support it better or b) tricks pop up that help us get everything streaming properly.

Posted: May 24th 2007 11:20PM (Unverified) said

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All of the DLNA issues with macs are on the MAC side... they dont like playing with dlna (third party app).

Posted: May 24th 2007 11:23PM chrisgrant said

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I think the issues are actually on the third-party app's side -- it has nothing to do with Mac OS.

Posted: May 24th 2007 11:26PM (Unverified) said

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not very comprehensive Christopher. didn't mention the scaling options defaulted to off (Full Screen and Smoothing) in the Game Settings that should be switched on for considerably better results. also didn't mention the native PS2 480p compatibility..

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Posted: May 24th 2007 11:32PM KiraXD said

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""Both of these features bring the PlayStation 3 that much closer to the functionality of the Xbox 360""

wait im confused... the 360 has more functionality than the PS3?

Smells like bias up in here.

Posted: May 24th 2007 11:34PM (Unverified) said

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I had to test this out today (while a beta was DLing) and I do have to say, it makes the system run incredibly well. I do, however, thoroughly wish Sony would remove the region locking on PS1 and PS2 games as I would love to play an upscaled copy of Rez as well as some ACE 2.

Posted: May 24th 2007 11:36PM (Unverified) said

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"wait im confused... the 360 has more functionality than the PS3? "

Umm, yes. Believe it or not, 360 has been adding features and updates as well as scaling for supported games since launch so yeah, the PS3 was behind on most of these features. Now if only there was a way to migrate my saves from Xbox to 360.

Posted: May 24th 2007 11:37PM (Unverified) said

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I don't know what issues you had with TwonkyMedia. I installed it on my MacBook and it works like a charm. The only things that aren't great are photo viewing, and the fact that the PS3 stupidly won't recognize .m4a files (which is what iTunes makes by default!) as mp4 audio, which it's completely capable of playing. Anyway, both of those issues are on the PS3 side, and may very well get fixed in the future.

Posted: May 24th 2007 11:45PM KiraXD said

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""Umm, yes. Believe it or not, 360 has been adding features and updates as well as scaling for supported games since launch so yeah, the PS3 was behind on most of these features. Now if only there was a way to migrate my saves from Xbox to 360.""

well iono what 360 you have but ASIDE from upscaling and media streaming... I felt that my 360 was a little lackluster in the feature department compared to my PS3. I just seem to use the PS3 for more media-centric stuff. (all my photos, music, and movies are stored on the ps3, while everything on the 360, i just stream from vista)
Granted i only use the 360 for 360 games and no xbox games... and on the sony side i do have a large ps2 library... this would be better for my situation.

Not trying to flame or anything... i just though that it was funny...

Posted: May 24th 2007 11:52PM (Unverified) said

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"Errors: You can only enter 3 urls!"

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Posted: May 24th 2007 11:53PM cc123 said

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Try using Nero MediaHome as your DLNA server on your pc. It works very well. I can even play avi files since they are being transcoded.

I followed these instructions:
http://www.ps3forums.com/showthread.php?p=1452844#post1452844

Posted: May 25th 2007 12:25AM (Unverified) said

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Sheppy: Datel has excellent transfer solutions. I was able to read from a regular xbox card to my 360 without a problem.

Posted: May 25th 2007 12:32AM douglasp75 said

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1 question to anyone who has a PS3 and this update. Can I stream music and play games at the same time like the 360? Also has anyone tried using TVersity to try streaming AVIs?

Posted: May 25th 2007 2:13AM (Unverified) said

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I'm using Nero Media Home on my PC, streaming music, images and even XviD movies to my PS3 without hickup. Brilliant.

Posted: May 25th 2007 7:09AM (Unverified) said

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the fact that the PS3 stupidly won't recognize .m4a files (which is what iTunes makes by default!)"

PS3 and PSP both recognize and play unprotected .m4a(or mp4 audio) files without a hiccup. There are 0.0000342 devices other than iPod that play the protected FairPlay DRM'ed .m4a's from itunes.


MONPOLY FTW!!!!

Posted: May 25th 2007 7:34AM JoshMilewski said

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Useless! Doesn't the 360 actually RENDER games at HD resolutions? The PS3 only upscales them! That's so useless! My TV can do that itself! Jeez...Guess I don't have a reason to buy a PS3, after all.

Posted: May 25th 2007 7:56AM erwos said

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"Windows Media Center 11" - I think you meant Windows Media Player 11.

Did you try the Zune software out? It supposedly does DLNA streaming with MPEG-4.

Posted: May 25th 2007 7:53AM kedward71 said

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@16 (Mudassir): "PS3 and PSP both recognize and play unprotected .m4a (or mp4 audio) files without a hiccup. There are 0.0000342 devices other than iPod that play the protected FairPlay DRM'ed .m4a's from itunes. MONPOLY FTW!!!!"

I think the poster means that the PS3 isn't recognising the file extension .m4a and only understands it if the file extension is .mp4. I know this was certainly the case back on the PSP at one point (and maybe it still is - I can't confirm on either as I don't have them to hand right now).

Anyway, FairPlay files have an .m4p extension (p for protected) and it's obvious they won't play...

"Not understanding the post at all FTW, Mudassir, you muppet"

Posted: May 25th 2007 9:31AM (Unverified) said

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Reading Joystiq has become a masochist exercise that IMO can only compare to watching Fox News.

I don't know why, but objective and fair reports are totally absent here, either by being very understanding of even the bad news about the 360, and always looking of a way to be negative about anything Sony, including good news. Even if you need to make it up. If somebody cannot see that this update, paired to the overall features of the PS3, puts it on par or ahead of the 360 in multimedia capabilities, they shouldn't write about it. Otherwise it stinqs.

Posted: May 25th 2007 9:36AM (Unverified) said

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Wow!!

Such a low profile article about a monumental update. Then they just posted the problems they had afterward.
Then BOOM!!!
The rush of a nintedo gamers summit or whatever, its fine. You did it with the PS3 gamers day also which was sweet.
I guess this just feels like this update is trying to be buried.

Posted: May 25th 2007 10:10AM (Unverified) said

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@17

The Xbox 360 can render Xbox games at resolutions the game supported...if the Xbox game didn't have 720p, it won't render at 720p on the 360 (it will upscale).

The beauty of the Xbox 360 is that you can choose which resolution you prefer and all output from the 360 will be rendered (if supported) or upscaled/downscaled (if rendering isn't supported) in that resolution. It sounds like the PS3 now also has this ability (or close to it). Good stuff.

Posted: May 25th 2007 11:59AM (Unverified) said

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There is even more good stuff here than many places report.

Big issues fixed!! now BD outputs at 720p. No longer do 720p owners take 1080i (which is bobbed and weaved by the display...more or less a 540p upscaled for display). Myriad of DVD and video updates.

awesome

Posted: May 25th 2007 12:45PM (Unverified) said

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Blu-ray 1080p/24Hz now also available.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Getting nearer to the xbox 360 features with that too... wait a second, the 360 has no Blu-ray... so what? it has HD DVD, oh, no, sorry, I mean you can buy an external drive (with another external power supply unit) But it is better, I know that at the end is better, for any reason, That's it! Sony just can't be better, I know because I read Joystiq.

Posted: May 25th 2007 1:34PM (Unverified) said

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i LOVE when my game consoles display movies at 24hz like they're supposed to be played.

wait, what?



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Posted: May 25th 2007 1:43PM (Unverified) said

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@24
You just made a complete jackass of yourself in order to point out that the Xbox 360 HD-DVD player has to be plugged in. Did that really warrant all the venom and sarcasm?

Yes, the PS3 can now display 1080p/24hz. Like the 360. It's great news for PS3 owners and let's just be happy with it.

Posted: May 25th 2007 2:19PM JoshMilewski said

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Brian (#22), then 360 backward "upscaling" is useless, too. Jeez. It can't be too hard to implement rendering in higher resolutions, especially with software emulators.

Posted: May 25th 2007 3:09PM (Unverified) said

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@27
I agree, it'd be nice if all the games were rendered at the resolution we want (ideally, the same resolution as our TV). We don't have that right now though, but the upscaling from the console does have a few advantages..

It's normally better for the scaling and interlacing/deinterlacing to be performed at the source, in this case the console. There are exceptions, depending on how advanced your HDTV's scaler is, but there's no disadvantage and a probable advantage to having your Xbox or PS3 perform the scaling.

Posted: May 25th 2007 4:58PM (Unverified) said

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I just tested. I could turn on my PS3, set it to remote play mode, go to Jack in the Box (since they have wireless internet at mine), turn on remote play on my PSP, and stream videos and music over the internet from my PS3 (hence from my PC over DLNA). PC ---> PSP media streaming guys.

Posted: May 25th 2007 6:47PM (Unverified) said

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@26

The only jackass around here must be you considering you didn't understand my sarcasm was pointed at joystiq's way of favouring xbox products when reporting news. Besides, who do you think you are to come and insult me because you didn't like my comment? Do you really believe that makes you look smarter? I wonder how many people with issues must be out there when seeing how easily they aggress others when hidden under a nickname online.

Posted: May 27th 2007 2:33PM (Unverified) said

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Hey Guys,

Running a virtual instance of XP on a dedicated Ethernet Inteface under Parallels on a Mac Pro 2.66 GHz Dual Core Dual Processor Intel Xeon system.

Using rev 802 of ffdshow and TVersity's latest DLNA server release with their latest Sony V2 patch (no other codecs or packages installed)

Works beautifully :-)
happy Mac person!)

All my handbrake iPod AVC files stream and display natively on the PS3 and my XVID/DivX stream and transcode (realtime!) very nicely.

My next goal is MKV but still extremely happy even if I don't get that working.

TVersity is the only DLNA server I know that has support for streaming AVC to the PS3 (twonkyvision and others do not)

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