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That forum is unreliable at best. There's always a subsect of people who say "this update bricked my PS3" and of course we have to take them at their word. Ah the protection that the anonymity of the internet provides! ;) I would trust some of the third party reporting sites (various game mag...

In the long ;) history of updates for the PS3 I am only aware of one that hosed people's PS3s. Sony quickly pulled that update (literally within the same day it was released) and reissued a new firmware within the week. Other than that, I've heard of nothing but good things when updating...

Not really. I get pretty good speeds on my PS3 download times, so I'm guessing that perhaps you hit the server fairly soon after the update came out? That's usually the heaviest traffic time. I tend to wait a day or two after the updates to perform the update.

Correct on DTS-MA not being sent out as HBR via optical. But I believe the core DTS track embedded within the DTS-MA would. Otherwise I don't know how those BDs with only DTS-MA soundtracks would play for people without HBR decoding hardware (and I think there's a few out there that only have...

That's the point, Chris, there is no setting. So for example, on many WB discs, including the new Matrix discs, the movies just begin after inserting the DVD. If you don't know to check, you're listening to DD. You have to manually select the DD TrueHD track. On other discs, where there is only...

I'm really digging on this. I download a lot of demos which are 1GB+ in size. I like to start it late at night as I'm going to sleep and would like the machine to shut itself off afterwards. Now all they need to add is *choosing highest bit rate soundtrack as default* for Blu-Ray play and...

With regards to drawing more current, looking at some manufacturer's specs (Seagate, Hitachi) for their 2.5" hard drives, the power draw specs are the same regardless of size of HD (from 60GB-120GB). I was also unaware that there were significantly different electronics between the 40GB and...

Fan noise is completely dependent on your personal factors: 1. Where is the PS3 kept from your listening position? 2. How loud do you listen to movies? 3. What types of movies do you watch most (i.e. silent/quiet films = noisy PS3) 4. How sensitive are your ears to the pitch of the PS3 fan...

Was this another hosed update attempt? My PS3 tried to update last night and got a "failed to download, do you want to try again?" error. Remembering what happened to the people who DL'd 2.40, I decided to say no. I'm not going to update until I hear that people have successfully updated to 2.42...

2.41 is out and so far it hasn't bricked my PS3. Keeping fingers crossed. :D

Wow, something must have gone horribly wrong with 2.40 for them to have pulled it that quickly. I have it on my work PC, but I don't dare update it because I don't want to turn my PS3 into a doorstop. :eek: (PS - I know I have the 2.40 file on my work PC because it was 130MB and 2.36 is 125MB...

Loaded 2.30 this morning, and the store looks new and snazzy...except that it takes forever for images to load (and it was supposed to get faster). I'm thinking the servers are getting hammered with people checking out the new storefront. Since I don't have support for 5.1 LPCM the new DTS-HD...

Thanks for the advice guys, I'm thinking that I'll probably hold off for either the Panny or the Sony 550 and feed that via 5.1 into my T763. Or, if I can find a decent enough new receiver with a good pre-amp section, I'll use that as a pre-amplifier and 5.1 out from the receiver to the T763...

Point taken. My only reservation is that I love the sound and power of my NAD T763, and I don't have that kind of money to spring for the replacement, so my next receiver will have more advanced decoding chips, but I'm pretty much guaranteed not to get the same power rating (not at $600). Of...

Well, now it's decision time. Do I buy a new receiver that can accept 5.1 LPCM? Or do I buy a new BD player with 5.1 output and feed that to my existing receiver. Either way, I'm out about $600 :frowning:

Just cause I hear it so infrequently :D :P

I can't remember where I read it (and it was on the web, so even if I did, it may be incorrect) but I believe that in the early stages of HDMI 1.3 there were actually two flavors, and the implementation the PS3 used was of the variety that could not pass the bitstream of the new HD CODECS via...

While it sucks that we still don't have BD-J or DTS-HD MA decoding, I'm personally really excited about resume play! You'd think that being a standard feature on most DVD players this would have been in there earlier...but hey, better late than never!

Ah that explains it. I'm fairly sensitive to certain deinterlacing and combing artifacts (my RP91 wasn't good at either) so I was initially really surprised at how poorly the PS3 scored on Secrets (and admittedly I didn't examine the details). My own anecdotal experience, watching ~100 DVDs...

It has a built in browser and it ain't the greatest...I'll just leave it at that. :P If you do choose to use it, do yourself a favor and hook up a USB keyboard (not sure if a USB mouse works or not).

Well I wouldn't go that far...be sure to read the manual and warranty. But the process is pretty easy, I think you'd have to try and brick it on purpose, so I wouldn't worry too much as long as you follow the instructions and you're somewhat adept at doing this sort of thing. It's easier than...

There is the possibility of using USB storage devices, but if you're comfortable doing it (and it's supported by PS3 and is in the instructions) you can simply replace the 40GB HD with any number of 2.5" SATA HDs (the kind that go into laptops). Those go up to 200GB at 7200RPM, and 320GB at 5400RPM.

The PS2 and XBox were piss-poor DVD players. To boot, you had to buy the remote to enable DVD play on the XBox. After that experience, I swore off gaming consoles as movie disc players. The PS3 has rewritten all of that. Not only is it one of the best BD players out of the box (the remote is...

Pardon my ignorance of the new formats, but is there any quality degradation in that process (DD+/DTSMA -> PCM -> HDMI -> receiver) over, say, bitstreaming the codecs to a receiver that can decode those internally? Thanks!

I'm with you Robert, the Panny DMP50 looks good, as long as it's reasonably priced. If the $599 is true, it should probably street for $100 or so less (via online options). If it really was BD 2.0 and internally decoded TrueHD/DTS-MA and output them through the 7.1 outputs (along with lossless...

Hi David, Wow, talk about tempting...I think I'm going to wait one more gen of products. I've read quite a bit over at AVS about various problems that this first batch of HDMI 1.3 switching receivers (from all manufacturers) that I'd like to wait until they iron out these bugs. I have no...

Wow, good news. That will make the product very tempting to me, as my current receiver does not do TrueHD/DTS-MA/5.1 PCM over optical, and has no HDMI inputs. Of course I'm itching to upgrade the receiver as well, and if the BD player costs are too high I may decide to stick with my PS3 and...

From blu-ray.com Great news for PS3 owners! :D Of course, if the Sapphire 3 & 4 decode the HD sound codecs internally and are priced under $500 (fat chance with Sony, I know) I'll buy a standalone player because it will be cheaper than buying a new mid-fi receiver and I can still use my NAD...