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PS3 v2.50 causing video playback problems?
According to Internet reports, some people have found that the PS3 v2.50 firmware update has affected their consoles ability to playback videos. Some are reporting black and white lines ruining video playback from the HDD and from DVD discs. Some are even saying that the sound has been adversely affected.
El Firmware 2.50 para PS3, está causando algunos problemillas
Hace poco hablábamos de lo importante y necesario que resulta que una compañía mantenga sus productos actualizados. Sony, en esas lides, es una empresa puntera, ya que cada poco tiempo lanza una actualización de firmware que mejora y potencia las características de sus productos.
Aunque toda actualización conlleva riesgos, riesgos mínimos si queréis, pero riesgos al fin y al cabo. Algunas actualizaciones anteriores trajeron una buena carretilla de problemas y esta vez, no se iba a dar la excepción.
En el foro oficial de PlayStation se han abierto diversos temas acerca de los problemas que los usuarios de todo el mundo están teniendo después de instalar la versión 2.50 del firmware en PS3. Ralentizaciones, cuelgues, dispositivos inalámbricos que dejan de funcionar y requieren un reseteo global, acceso al menú XMB que cuelga juegos… en definitiva, hay para todos los gustos y colores.
Por supuesto y de momento, se trata de problemas pequeños que aunque afectan a un número considerable de usuarios, no comprometen en sí al uso de la consola a nivel general. Pero como todo problema es digno de ser mencionado. Cabe resaltar que de momento, los más afectados, están siendo los usuarios del modelo original de 60Gb.
PS3 firmware v2.5 incompatible with 1080p Sony amp
IGN Australia is reporting that the new v2.50 firmware is incompatible with their Sony amp/receiver and greets them with a black screen. As soon as they cut the 7.1 Sony amp/receiver supporting 1080p over HDMI out of the picture, things worked which to them is "utterly boggling". Sony is yet to comment on this issue...
Last week Sony released firmware 2.50 for the PS3. However, in a bizarre turn of events the latest firmware prevents the PS3 from displaying an image on some state-of-the-art Sony home theatres.
We installed firmware 2.50 yesterday only to be greeted by a blank screen. After much swearing and trouble-shooting we discovered it was the Sony amp/receiver that was incompatible with the new firmware. We were able to get a picture again by cutting the Sony amp out of the loop and going straight into the projector.
For the record the IGN AU PS3 setup includes a 7.1 Sony amp/receiver supporting 1080p over HDMI and a 1080p Sony projector. The fact that the new firmware renders the PS3 unusable with this top-line Sony home theatre is utterly boggling.
On a related note, while trouble-shooting the problem we hooked the PS3 up to the projector via composite and also found that it's currently only displaying a black and white image over this video signal. These are both quite serious bugs to sneak through with the latest firmware.
SCE (Matsui) on future firmware updates:
In future updates, there are thoughts of raising the level of interaction, in the sense of “interactive entertainment”. Among those ideas are enabling the PSP to cope with more processing while using computational resources on the PS3 side for areas where the PSP lacks resources, so we think that interaction between the two systems will be possible by having them successfully complement each other .
In addition, as with Life with PlayStation, we take the approach of making the PS3 something people will use from when they wake up, like switching it on to watch the news in the morning. Since we believe that there must still be many areas in with both the PS3 and PSP can be of use in people’s daily lives, we want to continue to make firmware updates with this perspective in mind.
Sony has actually been working on Flash 9 support for quite some time -- as far back as late last year. To get it running on the PS3, Sony ended up customizing a separate Flash implementation that was provided to it by Adobe.
For a sense of how computationally intensive some areas of Flash 9 can be, you need only consider this little bit. According to Takase, the PS3 implementation of Flash-based playback for H.264 videos makes use of an SPU. This allows for loading up of web pages to be separate from video playback, improving framerate.
The entire web experience on the PS3 has been improved with the new firmware update. Noda cited a 2.8 times increase in Javascript speed according to Sony's own benchmarks. Takase believes PS3's Javascript performance, while not up to the level of Google Chrome, beats Internet Explorer 7.
It doesn't seem that PSP will be getting Flash 9 support for the time being. Noda explained that the PSP is extremely resource limited. Getting the full screen keyboard running was tough. This feature, incidentally, was apparently requested heavily in markets outside of Japan. Noda also mentioned fullscreen output of PSP games to televisions as being impossible to implement without hardware support.
Sony's engineers do still have things in the works for the PSP. While PSP already has screen capture support built into its development tools and accessible to game developers who chose to use it, plans call for a future firmware update to add video capture support as well.
Strangely, the PS3 took the opposite route with these Web 2.0-style features. On the PS3, video playback and upload to YouTube came first. Screen capture support was added only in the latest update. Takase detailed the screen capture support just a bit, revealing that the PS3 captures in PNG format at the full resolution of the current game and stores the images in the Photo section of the XMB.
IGN se hace eco de un artículo de Impress Watch, en el cual varios desarrolladores de Sony discuten algunas de las características técnicas del último firmware de PlayStation 3. En particular destacan el nuevo soporte para Flash 9 en el que estaban trabajando desde el año pasado y que hace uso de una SPU para reproducir vídeos H.264, separándose la carga de las páginas de la reproducción. El resto de la navegación también ha mejorado, con un incremento de 2,8 veces en la velocidad de ejecución de Javascript, estando por encima de Internet Explorer 7 pero sin llegar al nivel del Google Chrome.
Respecto a la nueva función de captura de imágenes, que pueden incluir los desarrolladores en sus juegos, esta se realiza en formato PNG a la resolución utilizada en ese momento, almacenándose en la sección de fotos del XMB.