PS3 Firmware 1.80 - PS/PS2/DVD upscaling, DLNA and more!

[Todd33]

He's talking about living rooms, of course.

Just buy an IS/VR lens or a decent prime. That will handle indoor shots fine without the need for a tripod. Also shoot in burst mode so you take more photos and can pick the sharpest one later.

A decent lens is $400+, a tripod is <$100 :smile:

Ok, a 50mm f1.8 for a Canon is only $100, but nothing like that exist for my D40

 

[wco81]

480x272?

I'm not talking about streaming a slide show of photos to a PSP.

I want to view it connected to an HDTV to which my PS3 is hooked up.


What is IS/VR?

I'm thinking 35mm film has way more dynamic range than any digital.

 

[ban25]

A decent lens is $400+, a tripod is <$100 :smile:

Ok, a 50mm f1.8 for a Canon is only $100, but nothing like that exist for my D40

You should be able to get the Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 for under $100. The only issue is that you'll need to use manual focus.

 

[ban25]

What is IS/VR?

I'm thinking 35mm film has way more dynamic range than any digital.

Image stabilization works to move the image or sensor to keep it steady, preventing camera shake from resulting in blurred exposures. It's advertised as providing the equivalent of 3-4 stops. It really does work, and is great in low-light conditions and for telephoto lenses.

35mm film is definitely better, but are you really going to to shoot a roll of film, then go and have it scanned, just so you can post some pictures of an LCD with very limited DR in a web forum?

 

[patsu]

480x272?

I'm not talking about streaming a slide show of photos to a PSP.

I want to view it connected to an HDTV to which my PS3 is hooked up.

LOL. You can stream video and music to PSP too, but I misread your post. If you're talking about PS3, I have not tried 1080p streaming (Haven't even done MP4 streaming). In the worst case, you can copy supported media from a PC to PS3 via DLNA.

 

[ninzel]

What's Double scaling as opposed to Normal scaling in DVD scaling options?

 

[Todd33]

What's Double scaling as opposed to Normal scaling in DVD scaling options?

Double is 2x the vertical and horizontal resolution and Normal is 1080P.

so Double = 960P I think

 

[Todd33]

You should be able to get the Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 for under $100. The only issue is that you'll need to use manual focus.

I'm holding out for the 55-200mm VR that just came out, I'd love a 50mm AF-S, but I'm not pro.

 

[wco81]

I have IS so what is VR?

And no I wouldn't give up the immediacy of digital, just observing some things film is better at.

Yeah a lot of devices which stream photos to your TV do so at less than HD resolutions. For instance, putting them on DVD, which limits you to 480p and your pics don't look so great.

 

[ninzel]

Double is 2x the vertical and horizontal resolution and Normal is 1080P.

so Double = 960P I think

Oh ok so I have a 1080p TV so I can just set it to Normal I guess.
And now that I have the Media serving working I just have to figure out how set up my folder so that when I open video in the XMB I only get video and not Music and every other folder showing.

 

[Mize]

dumb question: what vid types does ps3 support?

anyone streaming something that doesn't come out a bit 'blocky'

 

[ban25]

I'm holding out for the 55-200mm VR that just came out, I'd love a 50mm AF-S, but I'm not pro.

That's a nice zoom. Very light weight and a good price to boot. However, the 18-200mm will save you from having to carry two lenses around, and it also has a manual/override autofocus which is very nice.

 

[ban25]

I have IS so what is VR?

It's just Nikon's version of IS. All the manufacturers have their own terminology. Sony has an in-camera solution called Steady-shot or something.

 

[Todd33]

That's a nice zoom. Very light weight and a good price to boot. However, the 18-200mm will save you from having to carry two lenses around, and it also has a manual/override autofocus which is very nice.

$750 vs $230!! I'll deal with the two lenes, my wife would kill me

 

[Arwin]

The PS2 smoothing option looks like crap. It's blurry as hell and it disables both progressive scan and widescreen. God of War II looks way better in WS progressive scan than it does with that blur filter. I could see using it for older 480i games, but definitely not at the cost of widescreen support.

But if you set the scaling to Widescreen, then it does work properly together with Smoothing. This is what I used for GT4 widescreen for instance, and it looks very good, especially on the cars.

The RGB full range BTB/WTW option looks great. It's much improved over limited. However, I can't get the setting to stick. Once I watch a movie, it returns to normal and I have to disable and then re-enable the option to get it to work again. So for the time being, it's only useful for media stored on the hard disk and games.

Yeah, good that you mentioned this as it had me confused. But that's exactly what happens - after playing a disc based movie, it resets.

 

[inefficient]

Yeah, good that you mentioned this as it had me confused. But that's exactly what happens - after playing a disc based movie, it resets.

Happens to me too. Must be a bug. The kicker is that the setting still says "Full" even when it has defaulted back to Limited.

I noticed today that while watching a movie you can toggle the "Super-White" option from the Triangle menu. But I don't notice any change when toggling it.

 

[Arwin]

With some further testing it seems to only happen with BluRay movies, not regular ones.

 

[patsu]

The official 1.8 release note:
http://www.us.playstation.com/PS3/Network/Updates

There are more subtle enhancements I didn't notice before. Also Backward compatibility seems to have improved a little (based on reports from GAF).

 

[Titanio]

For anyone interested in DLNA streaming - TVersity has issued a PS3 specific patch, and my experience thusfar with it has been very encouraging. I was using nero before, but I've tried TVersity with the patch and I've found it supports:

- Audio feeds (e.g. 1up Yours etc.)
- Instant mp3 playback (no delays as i had with nero)
- Audio URLs
- Seemingly MUCH better transcoding than nero. Before, it was a question of whether a file type could be transcoded at all (be it SD or HD), but now it's more a question of just whether HD files can be transcoded. And in some cases they can! A 720p DivX movie trailer played back perfectly for me. Other formats, not as much luck yet, BUT, TVersity has so many more options for optimisation, and you can always decrease the maximum output resolution to improve performance. Everything (mp4, h2s4, wmv etc.) plays back for me if I leave that at the default 400x300..but there's lots of room for experimentation and tweaking. I haven't fiddled with any of the options thusfar except output resolution.

This seems like the most promising option I've tried so far. Well worth a look IMO! You can get it, and the patch, at http://www.tversity.com/home

edit - to update, did a little more tweaking, and 720p h264 and wmvs have played back fine for me also Will try more stuff later..

 

[djskribbles]

i finally got tversity working. it wouldn't recognize on my ps3, so i had to enable the port for tversity in the winxp firewall.

anyway, it seems to recognize all video types i have tested. but you can't pause, ff, rewind etc, only play and stop.