PS3 2.0 firmware details posted [confirmed?]
- Thread starter krypt0nian
- Start date
My New FW wishlist:
* XMB Access in Games (To message/invite friends and listen to music)
* Ability to leave voice messages to friends
* Support for more video/audio codecs
* Custom Wallpaper (why the hell is this taking so long)
* Completly revamped PSN Store. The site needs to be user customizable with preferred titles appearing at the top. I've got the screen space so give me a big list of titles on one page please. Back and forward buttons should work as well.
Do this and I'll cancel my XBL account.
* XMB Access in Games (To message/invite friends and listen to music)
* Ability to leave voice messages to friends
* Support for more video/audio codecs
* Custom Wallpaper (why the hell is this taking so long)
* Completly revamped PSN Store. The site needs to be user customizable with preferred titles appearing at the top. I've got the screen space so give me a big list of titles on one page please. Back and forward buttons should work as well.
Do this and I'll cancel my XBL account.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
I hope FW 2.0 comes out before Madden 2008 is out.
brandonh83
Banned
I'd like custom online avatars instead of the ones they offer you to choose from. Most of them are ass.
Kbsmoker said:
The PSP update was also confirmed to be this week via the SCEA PR for the update last week.
PS3 updates have come once every month since Feb. 2.0 is likely to be the June update.
I love how people exaggerate (see Dan Shu - EGM live) that the PS3 updates come every other week.
kenta said:
While that is true, you can't do things like FF and RW, etc. for transcoded files. I don't see a reason to go nuts and add everything that's out there, but it would be good to add some of the more commonly used ones on the internet ... divx, etc.
WMV would be nice too, but I don't see Sony paying for the licensing (then again, they added WMA).
Certainly, I'd love for it to directly handle VOBs (without changing the container) or even better yet ... mount a DVD ISO ...
... but yeah, I don't see Sony adding that anytime soon
CamHostage
Member
Onix said:
I am surprised that even now, none of the systems play DIVX. The DIVX company has been in negociations with game companies for a while now, I know that even Cube had it as a ported format (for professional video compression in-game only, no user playback of course), and there was a unlicensed 2nd Party player for PS2. But no PS3 or PSP support (and it'd be such an easy thing to add there too, just have a downloadable DIVX Player on the store if you can't work it into the firmware codecs), no 360 support (but the 360's such a wuss video player since MS won't allow vids to run, except if you can get a WMP network and then it's awesome), and no Wii support (J-MPEG? Thanks...) I hope that the talks are still on and that somebody gets a license on soon, because I really like my home DIVX player and would enjoy having one elsewhere in the house as well.
It seems about time, I don't know why it's not happening. Licensed DIVX DVD players are all over the place from a number of name manufacturers (Sony might even have one by now?), and while the codec is most often used for illegit purposes, you can say that about every codec.
brandonh83
Banned
Yeah I can't wait until the PS3 UI actually starts looking more and more like the UI at all the game shows in the past. But I'm content with everything they've given us so far, especially 1.8.
womfalcs3 said:
That's a big difference. Features like this need to be tested heavily. Just because Sony has it running on a devkit somewhere doesn't mean its anywhere near stable/secure enough for public release.
But i'm talking about a different background image for the notifications.
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
i'd like it if the notifications didn't impair gameplay, for sure. but i guess that's why you gotta keep your buddy list to a minimum or fill it with people who dont sign on/off a lot.
CamHostage said:
you know, I'd laugh and say there is no way Sony or MS would build in Divx support. But then Sony do DVD players that play Divx, so it isn't that far fetched. It'd certainly win them some friends.
Although I'm not sure whether DNLA supports that as an extended codec?
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
Saying that nobody cares about DivX is like saying nobody cares about MP3. Let's be realistic, native divx / xvid support would be a pretty big perk.bluheim said:
The Faceless Master
Member
http://www.divx.com/products/products.phpbluheim said:
CamHostage said:
I think we will end up seeing it. Initially, companies probably shied away from it because there really wasnt all that much legal content available for it. It was predominately movies and TV shows.
Now that more legal content providers are using it, the picture is a bit different.
Let's not forget that there's also some strategic advantage to staggering firmware releases like this. Should security ever be compromised, it gives them some new options that people will have to dload a firmware update for. Now, so long as it's not a friggin sieve like the PSP's firmware (Dark_Alex cracks 'em very fast) then it gives them an opportunity to patch holes. I'm not certain that's what they're doing right now, but I could certainly envision this being the case. PEACE.womfalcs3 said:
mrklaw said:
Argh ... good point.
http://www.dlna.org/en/consumer/learn/technology/
If you look at the optional set, MPEG-4* is listed ... but of course, the * isn't defined on the bottom of the page :\
To my knowledge however, MPEG-4 level 2 is the decoder type for divx and xvid ... and MPEG-4 level 10 is AVC. These are the two most commonly used MPEG-4 variants ... and if you like at the optional set I linked, AVC is listed separately.
Given that MPEG-4 level 2 is the most popular form of MPEG-4 besides AVC, I would hope that it is what the * refers to in the optional set.
wazoo said:
No, because the movie industry, cable and satellite industry, IPTV, DNLA, etc. are all using it.
http://www.dlna.org/en/consumer/learn/roadmap/
If you notice, the next mandatory codec for DNLA is AVC. The only other mandatory codec is MPEG2.
BTW - I'm sure MS is not very happy that most telecons are going with AVC instead of Windows Media 9 / VC-1.
It will be interesting if that has any effect on HD-DVD using VC-1 as their primary codec. Obviously it is easier to compress an AVC file for broadcast rather than transcoding it from VC-1 and then comrpessing it.
badcrumble
Member
So yeah, just for idle speculation and fun - now that we've got 1.8 and the 2.0 details posted are looking pretty likely - what else is there to add to the PS3 firmware?
Right now all i can think of, apart from more emulation fixes and improvements (no more upscaled psx fmv skipping plz), is more codec support, a better store, and the P2P stuff that will apparently be arriving with Home.
Right now all i can think of, apart from more emulation fixes and improvements (no more upscaled psx fmv skipping plz), is more codec support, a better store, and the P2P stuff that will apparently be arriving with Home.
badcrumble
Member
sorryJB1981 said:
badcrumble
Member
animated gif support under "pictures" :lol
how long will it take before sony runs out of ideas to add to firmware updates..
If the PS3 is going to be supported for the next 10 years as i believe sony has said...There only so many things that can be added.
As it stands now...we get atleast 1 firmware update per month...so 12 updates year..and so on..
If the PS3 is going to be supported for the next 10 years as i believe sony has said...There only so many things that can be added.
As it stands now...we get atleast 1 firmware update per month...so 12 updates year..and so on..
The Faceless Master
Member
resolution (16:10) support for HDMI->DVIbadcrumble said: