Lovely news! It's coming tomorrow. Also, not mentioned in the headline - remote play via PSP will be enabled over the internet 
http://www.gaming-age.com/news/2007/5/23-52
http://www.gaming-age.com/news/2007/5/23-52
PS3 Firmware 1.80 - PS/PS2/DVD upscaling, DLNA and more!
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Wow. So that DNLA jobby on Linux is suddenly looking redundant?
Quite so..at least for media player functionality. I guess if you want your PS3 to act as a DLNA media server that could still be useful (there's no word on that in the release..although remote play via your PSP over the web fulfils a similar purpose as far as your PSP is concerned!)
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Nah, as it can act a a server in the Linux scenario. More importantly, perhaps, is that SCE will probably never support codecs such as Divx, while there's potential for that on the Linux front.
P.S. I'm still calling BS on the update until I see it on my PS3.
That way, there's no letdown if it doesn't come through.inefficient
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Holy crap! It's too good to be true!
I want to see an actually Sony press release. But I god I hope I will have all these features by the 24th.
I want to see an actually Sony press release. But I god I hope I will have all these features by the 24th.
http://www.scee.presscentre.com/Content/Detail.asp?ReleaseID=4372&NewsAreaID=2
I wonder if downloadable PSone/PS2 games will also be upscaleable now..
Also, what (DLNA) software do I need on my PC to allow it to stream media to my PS3?
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That could be faked, I'm still calling BS.
Interesting notes:
Number 2 in particular. They make no mention of a PS3 powered up and set for Remote Play.
One would guess so, as it ought to be a scaler picking up the video out of the game/media player, unless they've combined upscaling individually into the player and emulators.
It wouldn't surprise me if in it's first incarnation, the functionality required that. That being the case, the next step would be for it not to be set for remote play, and the next step after that would be a low power sleep mode.
I kind of wish I had a PAL PS3 now. Can't play my DVDs on my Japanese PS3 :/ The DVD upscaling, from what was discussed before, should be quality.
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That would seem to be a logical progression. I'm interested in how they plan on handling idle applications like Folding and other future distributed computing systems.
I wonder if they rushed the upscaling DVD software to appease people, or finished up the advanced method we read about sometime ago, with x.v.YCC support. EDIT [Am I confusing Deep Color with the xvYCC colorspace?]
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With this update, I'm running out of stuff to b*tch about.
Hmmm.... the scaler, yeah the scaler! Fix the internal scaler Sony!! Oh, and Master audio codecs!
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That could be faked, I'm still calling BS.
Interesting notes:
Number 2 in particular. They make no mention of a PS3 powered up and set for Remote Play.
No. While that won't mean it's not required, I think they should see a huge potential for, say, leaving the PS3 on with Folding@Home with the added benefit of being able to taking it over with the PSP for a remote session.
Not that I think Remote Play works great right now - it's still a tad sluggish. But who knows there are improvements in that area too.
And yes, it looks almost too good to be true. It's almost like a new Sony.
It must be helping that the 360 and PS3 (and Wii) are forcing each other to bring their A-game. inefficient
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It only works for movies, photos, music.
There is not a single PS3 game yet that has PSP interaction as far as I know. Probably the SDKs for doing that either have not been released or were only recently released.
That could be faked, I'm still calling BS.
Interesting notes:
Number 2 in particular. They make no mention of a PS3 powered up and set for Remote Play.
It's now on threespeech.
Interesting thought: use DLNA and a loopback connection to access media in games if the OS doesn't currently provide it.
It's a software solution. There's even a DLNA media server in development for PS3 Linux.
There seems to be a number of different options available out there in terms of software..I wonder which will be best for streaming to PS3.
Does Windows Media Centre Edition support DNLA? Would an existing Media PC be a suitable server to PS3's client? Running PS3 as a home server doesn't make as much sense to me as having it as a client - You wouldn't want the folks upstairs to be connecting to your PS3 to stream movies while your playing Heavenly Sword!
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The only significance of this is that you can start downloads from the PSN store (demos or games, for example) or from the internet remotely, and they'll be there waiting for you when you get to your PS3. BG downloading also works via Remote Play. In its current implementation, that is.
Someone on GAF said that MCE is DLNA compliant, but I haven't checked that myself.
It may thus be well suited to act as a server for PS3. But other software may offer other features, or better features. I guess we'll have to compare..there are a variety of solutions out there for PC.
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