SO Wiizerfanboy, I got a PS3

Jbrown · Post by **Jbrown** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 9:31 pm

Updating firmware now...

SOOO SLOW

ME WANT HD GOODNESS

Jbrown · Post by **Jbrown** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 9:53 pm

I haven't made PSN accnt yet, but it will be "jbrown7815"

Add me Wiizer

I went ahead and got 40GB version, I dont need PS2 playback, USB ports 2 is good, and Im going to upgrade HD to 160GB soon

Now hopw to get a media server setup for it..

WiizerFanboy · Post by **WiizerFanboy** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 10:56 pm

Yaaaay!!!!!! will add you soon JBizzle, at the time I'm posting this my bro is leveling my character in COD4.

oh, as for a media server, TVersity is the best way to go for all that stuff. although you don't really need it anymore if you're trying to play .avi and .wmv files since the ps3 now recognizes them. but yeah it's a good thing to use when you want to save space I guess.

Jbrown · Post by **Jbrown** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 1:00 am

Sweet. Yeah I just got COD4 for PC last week, almost a captain

That game is awesome, I will be torn now

Post by **BreakmanX** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 11:35 am

Add me to j. BreakmanX of course.

Glad you're rocking the ps3!

WiizerFanboy · Post by **WiizerFanboy** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 2:19 pm

now we're just waiting for a certain richiezero...

Post by **BreakmanX** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 10:29 am

Hehe, he will have one soon.

Vamp [Bot] · Post by **Vamp [Bot]** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 7:49 pm

Quick question: Can you output to 1080i? My HDTV only supports 1080i and if I'm buying a PS3 eventually I really don't want to use just 480p.

Side-note: As soon as I can find a cheap 2nd hand older XBox1 I'm going to put a gigantic hard drive in it and turn it into a media server and torrent downloader for my house.

WiizerFanboy · Post by **WiizerFanboy** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 7:55 pm

Vamp wrote:Quick question: Can you output to 1080i?

Absolutely.

Vamp [Bot] · Post by **Vamp [Bot]** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 8:00 pm

And still have it be in 1080i and not just 480p upscaled? I've heard really mixed reports. I'm kinda looking for a certain videophile to answer this one *cough*break*cough*

Vamp [Bot] · Post by **Vamp [Bot]** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 8:07 pm

Double post, but whatever.

Basically what I'm referring to is this: http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/11/16/ps ... -do-1080i/

Despite 1080p being "the true definition of HD", most of the titles available are rendered internally at 1280 x 720 and scaled up accordingly... or at least that's what should happen. On many older CRT HDTVs that only support 1080i input and not 720p, instead of scaling to the appropriate HD resolution, the PS3 goes back down to the positively Wii-like EDTV standard of 480p.

What my 360 does is upscale 720p to 1080i, I'd like the PS3 to do the same.

Jbrown · Post by **Jbrown** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 2:33 am

Vamp wrote:Double post, but whatever.

Basically what I'm referring to is this: http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/11/16/ps ... -do-1080i/

Despite 1080p being "the true definition of HD", most of the titles available are rendered internally at 1280 x 720 and scaled up accordingly... or at least that's what should happen. On many older CRT HDTVs that only support 1080i input and not 720p, instead of scaling to the appropriate HD resolution, the PS3 goes back down to the positively Wii-like EDTV standard of 480p.
What my 360 does is upscale 720p to 1080i, I'd like the PS3 to do the same.

Vamp,

Basically 720P is better than 1080i

1:1 Pixel Matching FTW.

If yoru TV is 480P how the hell can you go to 1080i?

My tv is 720P and can also do 1080i and I run 720P...

I did quuite a bit of studying on this...

Vamp [Bot] · Post by **Vamp [Bot]** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 6:29 am

My TV does not support 720p. It supports 480i, 480p, and 1080i. It's a 3 year old rear-projection television. For my money, I prefer the higher resolution over non-interlaced image anyway.

Jbrown · Post by **Jbrown** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 8:19 am

I see, didn't know TVs supported that.

Yes the PS3 does great upscaling to 1080i, then

Post by **BreakmanX** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 10:02 am

As of right now it will go down to 480p for software that does not support 1080i as it will not upscale from 720p. A lot of stuff does support 1080i though.

A firmware upgrade is supposed to fix this problem, but Sony has said that its not really its first priority.