Sony didn't want to make a big deal about this (so humble, that Sony) but the PlayStation 3's recent
2.50 firmware update has a few extra additions aimed straight at home theater buffs. First up is a place to enter your
DivX VOD Registration code -- necessary if you want to get any of that
Sony Pictures or
Warner Bros. DivX-encoded video that's on the way -- along with new Sequential Playback and 50Hz video output settings, plus support for chroma upsampling & Mosquito Noise Reduction video enhancement on homemade Blu-ray discs and DVDs. On a more minor note, the BD/DVD settings section has been renamed just Video Settings, while the Cinema Conversion and Upscale options are getting all their mail delivered to BD/DVD Cinema Conversion and BD/DVD Upscaler, respectively. Peep the PlayStation site for the rest of the exciting details (there's a German keyboard layout change that is not to be missed), and then go back to watching
Hulu in a tiny box with a poor framerate in your newly Flash-enabled browser.
[Via
PS3 Blog]
posted Oct 17th 2008 3:41AM
The most important feature of the new firmware is a new standby on inactivity option. This should have been there a long, long time ago.
As much as I think this may be useful, none of my other AV devices do this. I have to manually turn them all off. I guess my point is, this really wasn't something I was waiting for. Some kind of playlist importer, smart playlist or ratings system for media I have on there would be "important", rather than an auto power-off option for the finger challenged.
What is it with all these "should have been there from-day-one/long-time-ago" posts anyway? It's here now isn't it? Enjoy your auto-standby-power-off meh.
Auto power-off is handy when you are downloading stuff.
Yeah handy is the word. Not really that important though is it.
Confused, but I'll test for the answer: Does this mean the only DivX files it'll play are one's registered?
That's for vod. Good ol' regular divx will play the same as before.
Why is DivX so popular when H.264 implementations are two-a-penny and half the time built into the same boxes that do DivX anyway? They seem to be doing some mean marketing.