Firmware update 1.80 upscales DVDs, games
Today Sony are releasing a significant firmware update (1.80) for the Playstation 3. Here are some of the new features:
- Upscaling DVDs and PS1 and PS2 games to 1080p resolution.
- PSP Remote play via internet.
- DLNA media center connectivity.
- Photo printing with compatible Epson printers.
- Zoom and trim images + a new type of slideshow.
- Transfer save files from the PS3 using memory card adaptor.
Upscaling to HD resolution and DLNA are the biggest changes, and seems to work flawlessly. DLNA adds a button under the Picture, Music and Video menus of the XMB titled “Search for Media Servers”, which seems to work well in a Windows environment. If you have experience about DLNA using Linux, please let us know.
Leonedo said
am May 24 2007 @ 6:04 pm
DLna? its possible to use this with out a windows box? with linux or mac?
DaveDaveDave said
am May 24 2007 @ 8:11 pm
I’ll test out my Ubuntu Box and Gentoo box soon, but I didn’t have time so far today.
Well, I tried it out this morning in a Mac environment. I wasn’t able to get it to see iTunes, and I tried installing Twonky media server aswell as the allegro uPnP media server on a PowerMac - no go.
I have Verizon FIOS, which includes some kind of uPnP media services that the Motorola set-top DVR can see on a Windows box (lame) - but I’ll test that too…
Dave
DaveDaveDave said
am May 24 2007 @ 8:14 pm
Oh - Leonedo - I saw some information somewhere that said you need to run Windows Media Player 11 for the PS3 to hook up to - on either XP or Vista. Promising so far!
Dave
Hude said
am May 25 2007 @ 8:28 am
You can also try TVersity in Windows, which is free and able to convert video types on the fly into a format that PS3 supports.
Laurens said
am May 25 2007 @ 8:44 am
This program (non-free though), has support for linux, too.
http://www.twonkyvision.com/Products/TwonkyMedia/index.html
lenooh said
am May 25 2007 @ 12:16 pm
i got it working (although partially) with ushare:
http://ushare.geexbox.org/
check the thread:
http://psubuntu.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=348
for details
AngeloVZR said
am May 25 2007 @ 1:03 pm
Tested and working also with Nero 7 (mediahome)
Conversion also on the fly supported.
Laurens said
am May 26 2007 @ 12:59 pm
I found a free open source implementation:
http://mediatomb.cc/
There’s quite a few more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Plug_and_Play#UPnP_AV_MediaServer_software
Leonedo said
am May 28 2007 @ 12:12 am
iam going to try with eyeconnect, is for mac, but is commercial.
ixle said
am May 28 2007 @ 9:10 am
Does this mean you can play xVid perfectly (fullscreen without bad quality) on the PS3?
mattruby said
am May 29 2007 @ 3:41 am
Seagate sells a “Shared Storage II” HD, enclosure and embedded PC that is 320GB ethernet NAS for as little as about $200. Its embedded PC runs Linux.
rts said
am May 31 2007 @ 5:13 pm
MediaTomb (http://mediatomb.cc/) works great for me… serves up all MP3s, JPEGs, and mpeg2/4 videos.
No on-the-fly transcoding though.
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