PS3 scales games from 720p to 1080p straihgt from the box, so it does have a scaler chip.
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PS3 scales games from 720p to 1080p straihgt from the box, so it does have a scaler chip.
Seems like a lot of trouble to go through to impress some net nerds like you an I though. 99.9% of all PS3s will never be opened, much less completely dismantled to the point the heat spreaders are exposed.
Never thought of that, I was thinking about the dvd and PS1/PS2 games. My bad.
It doesn't yet. It is apparently something Sony are looking into for a future firmware update.
DVD's
, must be a type london boy as PS3 does'nt scale dvd'as to HD. The only scaling that occurs in the machine is games from 720p to 1080p.I think you're getting worried about anything that shouldn't need worrying.
By the same token, you could wonder why manufacturers put any information on the chips at all, be it engraved or hand-painted.
In fact, between pressing 100million metal pieces with "CELL" written on it (cause they's not engraved afterwards, they're pressed like that) and pressing blank pieces of metal and then go back afterwards and write things on them, i'm not sure which one is more expensive.
DVD's
No. PS3 scales DVDs up to 1080p like all Bluray players out there (u know, the 2 out at the moment err). Heck, like most DVD players out at the moment.
I'm not worried about it (my PS3 will be one of the 0.01% that does get dismantled), I'm just trying to get my head around why they would bother that's all.
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Oh thanks! Was out yesterday.
Well i guess the firmware is broken. Won't take much to update it.
EDIT: Actually no, that link is quite old, I thought Sony confimed that PS3 DOES upscale DVD playback after that IGN article. Could be wrong.
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They're working on it. The chip will be dropped in a later revision.
It was always meant to be there as its the only way to get near 100% backward compatibility out of the box. Emulation just wasn't good enough at the time of manufacturing. Sony hopes that in future, they will be doing emulators good enough to take out the EE+GS of the PS3 and save some money.
No it doesn't scale games from 720p to 1080p without effort.
Why? What will change for you? Heck i'd prefer to have the PS3 with EE+GS there, cause the emulator will inevitably be less successful than the real hardware, unless Sony manage to do a miracle and create the "Perfect Emulator".
Why would Cell do upscaling tasks?
