One-and-Only PS3 as Blu-Ray Player Thread - Page 407

PlayTV scheduled for end of March in UK (add-on for £99.99). I hope they're working on a US version too.

http://ps3mods.blogspot.com/2008/01/...announced.html

Wow! Yet another plus for the PS3. If it works well that would be a nice add-on.

well after two other Blu-Ray players that say they could decode internally and get it to my receiver as multichannel (they wouldnt though) i finally went with the PS3 and multichannel is showing up finally as it did with my A3.

One thing i must say, the PS3 is one ugly machine, i have an xbox 360 and all i ever heard was the PS3 was so much better looking, maybe if they put a cover over the silver loading area it would be, but man it is ugly.

Do they make a lid that matches the rest of the shell over the drivebay?

Yes, the PS3 does send mutli-channel PCM for SACDs ..They sound great. My only complaint with the implemention is that it will send 'multi-channel' stream even with SACD stereo only ...I think this is configurable on the PS3 ..

Be careful with 'all SACDS have a CD Track... I own quite a few that are SACD only .. I think most of those are from the pre-hybrid days ..

Originally Posted by yampan
"It also make me wonder just how one would record off a satellite box"


Thanks rebena,

Interesting read. The article is a little old (probably why they mention D-VHS) and said there was no compatability with directv HR series receivers, which is the vairiant they use for broacasting MPEG4. That's about the only thing worth recording onto hard media. I don't see any mention of such devices being used with their current crop of h20, HR20, Hr21 receivers on those forums. D* has always postured itself hardware wise to obstruct that endeavor. It remains to be seen if the new gang of HDM download pushers will also try to keep everthing off the hard stuff. Once BD recorders are plentiful and inexpensive, the answer may be "everthing is possible for a fee."

I have the samsung lnt5265f. If I choose automatic, the picture goes away, then it comes back to the same spot. It doesnt allow me to continue with the settings change. If I choose custom, I can choose the first three options and it works fine. But when I choose 1080p, the sceen goes blank like the same as when I choose automatic. Its like the ps3 signal is dropped. Any ideas?

Hmmm? I just checked BB on line and they have it available to be shipped and also 4 out of the 6 stores in my area are showing it in stock.

Not sure what TV your using but if there's 2 HDMI ports available I'd run your DTV directly to the TV and then optical out of the tv into the 2808 (you're only getting DD anyway no sense wasting an HDMI port on the Denon for that). Use the HDMI's on the 2808 for the PS3 and the Toshiba.

You need to have the Harmony 880 learn the up/down/left/right commands in "raw" mode. This is an option for the Harmony's learning mode.

Ron Jones

what boggles my mind is how people stay with cable tv?

dish network has the most hd channels available under thier basic hd teir.
bang for the buck definetly goes to dish net. i am waiting to qualify for another upgrade so i can get another 622 and a hd reciever for my other two hdtv's.

my understanding of direct tv is that they are adding a bunch of hd channels but they will be more subscription and ppv type.

as far as recording the 622 does a perfect job and it helps that i don't care about keeping any of the programs.

I didn't know where to post this question, so I hope here is alright.

I have a Panny 1080p plasma th-pz700u. When I am playing PS3 games such as COD 4 and NBA2k7 (both which are 1080p games according to the back of the box) my TV shows that it is only receiving 720p signal. When I am on my PS3 home screen it shows 1080p output. I have the output of the PS3 set to 1080p.

Is there anything I am doing wrong or is this normal?

Matt

Hi,

I wanted to ask how to solve a problem with my PS3 and Blue-Ray movies.

I recently bought my 40GB PS3 and installed the new software update.
When I play games I don't have any audio problems, so I can enjoy the DD 5.1 sorround, but when I put a Blue-Ray movies in I, the audio skips any time the audio gets louder (over a certain threshold).

The way I have my PS3 connected is this:

PS3 connected via HDMI directly to the TV (for Video)
Optical cable connected to my Receiver (Sony STR-DE885)
My speakers are the PolkAudio RM6005

I set my PS3 BD/DVD (Optical) audio to Bitstream

If I play around the settings of my receiver I can make the audio skip less during loud parts, and I can definitely make it much worst, but I cannot make the skipping go away.
I tried changing optical cable and I get the exact same result.

Can someone PLEASE help me with this?
At this point I think it might be either the receiver or the speakers that cannot handle (for whatever reason) the audio coming from the PS3, but I am not sure at all.

Thanks a lot in advance.

I'm not sure if you've followed the 65 thread or not, but at one point the models had serious "handshake" issues over HDMI, and specifically with the PS3 I thought. There was either a firmware update or a board revision issued for the TV. You may want to contact samsung or read that thread and look into it.


Not all TVs that I know of. As far as I know, even if your TV doesn't support it, enabling super-white to "on" won't clip any peak whites or below black or cause any other harm to the picture (banding, etc). My best advice would be to run some test patterns and see what you notice and calibrate from there.


There is nothing wrong. You are seeing COD4's native resolution (actually 1024x600) being sent to your TV. The back of the box is simply telling you what resolution the game "supports" meaning that if you deselected the 720p and 1080i resolution and "forced" 1080p to your TV, then COD4 would internally render the game and scale it to 1080p for your TV.

The game should actually run better at 720p because that's what it's programmed to natively render. If you're up to it, check out this thread for more info on native rendering resolutions of video games.

Brandon

Hey guys,

I just got a PS3 and after hooking everything up via hdmi to my plasma (panny px75u) for video and optical to receiver there is no sound at all from my receiver. I set the optical output to bitstream. If I revert back to only use HDMI through the TV sound comes hence something is going on between the ps3 and the receiver as far as optical is concerned. Does anyone have this type of receiver (Pioneer VSX-515)?

Thx guys,

Brandon, I asked about this in another thread, I was told that if you uncheck 720p and 1080i then it would go to 480p, not 1080P.

That is actually what was happening which is why I started the thread. You can see it here if interested:
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=974866

It depends on the game. If the game supports 1080p and you uncheck the others, you will get 1080p. If the game doesn't support 1080p and you uncheck the others, you will get 480p.

COD4 supports 1080p, so if that is checked and everything else is unchecked, 1080p will result.

Brandon

There are a lot of TVs (most of them) that won't pass multichannel audio from an external source back out of their own optical outputs. They downconvert it to stereo (which generally lights up the Pro Logic II on your receiver). Only the audio from the TV's own tuners can be output via optical as multichannel. This is true of DD, DTS, the various HD formats, whatever.

So he'd want to connect DTV via optical to the receiver, not the TV.

That's where I got my NHL08 demo.

2 problems though:

1. I have bandwidth limitations on my internet connection
2. I have a computer to play most of the games simply because I hate using two analog sticks. I am much more at ease with a mouse and a keyboard for fps games.

Can you buy games online? They must be cheaper. But then if you lose your data you lose the game as well. Can you put it on a disc somehow?

btw games playing at 720p is a ripoff. They look a bit blurry. I thought the PS3 would've been powerful enough to handle the 1080p resolution.

thanks again.

I see, makes sense!

Yes, if a game only supports 720p, and you don't have 720p checked in the settings but do have 1080i/p checked, the PS3 will not scale to 1080i. It will down-convert to 480p. This issue has been around since the PS3 came out. The 360 will scale any media/source to any output resolution you set (save for SD DVDs when not using VGA or HDMI), but the PS3 apparently lacks this kind of scaling hardware chip when it comes to games (not sure if the PS3 can downscale Blu-Ray to 720p).

Because for many of us severe weather knocks the sat out with regularity. Here in KC, you can depend on losing the sat signal everytime it rains or snows. I had DTV for many years and finally gave up on it because of frequent loss of signal.

720p blurry?

Just ordered my Marantz VP15S1 projector and I have a question. It's a pretty simple one, I'm sorry to say.

I have to get some long runs (25' - 30') of HDMI's. Does the newest version 1.3 pertain more to a cable running between projector and PS3 (and or other 1080P sources) or between 1080P sources and preamp/pros/receivers. In other words, is it more for audio or is it video? My Bryston processor doesn't have HDMI.

I think I see. It's for both . . . "deep color" for video and DTS HD MA / TrueHD for audio. So I need (2) HDMI 1.3 cables, not just reg. HDMI cables, correct?

Nevermind, I figured it out. This receiver has optical assigned to TV for cable-box. Reassigned it to DVD. Sounds great...yay!

That's odd. Are you sure your set is calibrated right? I've read many times that while some games support 1080P, 720P is the best resolution for games.

No. This is not correct. There are SACD ONLY discs that do NOT work in a regular DVD/CD player. Those discs do not include the CD data. Since the PS3 is a SACD/CD/DVD/BD player it will play any of those discs even an SACD ONLY format disc.

Most games are rendered in 720p on both 360 and PS3. The 360 will re-scale the resolution of games to whatever you set it to. PS3 won't scale resolution for games. Originally games either supported 720p or 1080p, and if your TV didn't support that resolution, you'd have to play in 480p. Lately there might be games that "support" (can render out in within game software) both 720p and 1080p.

First "possible" remote problem.This morning my Sony BR remote worked fine but then after turning off the PS3 then turning it back on later the remote stopped working and the clicking sound from the speakers that it makes stopped too even though it was set to on.I ended up resetting my PS3 to factory specs and the clicking sound was restored to the game controller but I can't get it to re-recognize the remote anymore in the setup no matter how long I press the enter and start buttons together.I rechecked the firmware which remains at the newest version 2.1 and it won't reload since the newest version already exists.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

i understand, however for me it has to be such a severe storm that it looks like night and at most i have lost signal for 10 minutes. i just switch over to a dvr recording. my sat is up and runnign 99.9999% of the time rain or shine and i live in florida need i say more about severe lightning storms each day in the summer

i have never had dt i have always had dish and love it also have comcast internet so i do use diplexers and if really want to watch my locals for that 10 minutes i just switch over to cable as sub basic cable comes free with the internet service. funny thing is durring katrina my cable was lost for 2 days while my sat rocked on! a main cable was severed where the storm made land fall all cable was lost. my neighbors were all bored and i was enjoying my programming uninterupted.

i have heard of others having tree issues however i have a friend beaming dt through a small hole in 2 large trees with no complaints.

i've had dish for 4 years and would never want to go back to cable. i am looking to get two more hd recievers when i can upgrade again for my other two hdtv's. one or two more 622 dvrs if they let me or at least a dvr and a hd reciever.

I can't speak of the loss of signal for snow, but I sure can for the loss of signal from rain. I live in central Florida and during the triple hit hurricanes of 2004 I didn't lose signal one time. I won't say I never lose the signal during a storm, but it's rare. I have the HD 5 LNB dish (I had the 3 LNB dish during the hurricanes). The trick is dish tuning on a very stable base. A metal post in a lot of concrete is best. Typically, satellite dish installers do a pizz poor job of dish installation. Just because joe blow down the street has his dish dicreetly mounted on his roof doesn't mean that's the best way to do it. Additionally, I have a dish tuner (birdog) that I occasionally use to tune the dish. I alway aim for the best signal I can get on all birds. It may take several attempts over time to get it right, but once it's right I rarely have to dick with it again. I even tuned my own 2-way satellite internet dish when I used that service. BTW Direcway sucked.

It's no different than when you first get any new piece of AV equipment. After you intall it you spend some time setting it up the best way.

Having said all that, I'm not saying satellite is any better than cable or any other technology but if you're inclinded to revisit it and are willling to buy a tuner and spend some time at it, I'm sure it'll work for ya. After all, plenty of folks in Canada can get the signal very reliably.