Archive for the ‘Blue-Ray’ Category

According to the official Sony Playstation blog, they’re about to fix one of the major complaints about Sony Playstation 3 as a Blu-ray(BD-player) player that is the PS3 can’t handle the bit-for-bit DTS-HD Master Audio format.

Firmware update v.2.30, which will arrive soon enough, according to Sony representative, will at last add support for DTS-HD Master Audio—a “lossless” audio format that can delivers a bit-for-bit reproduction of the studio master soundtrack—to the Sony Playstation 3’s Blu-ray disc player. The Sony Playstation 3 already supports the Dolby TrueHD(True Hi-Definition), a competing lossless audio format.

In the next Sony Playstation 3 firmware update, it will allow the Sony PlayStation 3 to play upcoming “BD-Live” Blu-ray discs, this will make Sony PlayStation 3 an even greater for Blu-Ray device bargain in the market than it was before or at least until prices for stand-alone players start falling down.

The upcoming Sony PlayStation 3 firmware update ver: 2.20, which is due before the month is out, will let you access the great downloadable function, Net-enabled features and widgets that come with the latest Blu-ray movies recently. The newest Blu-ray specification such as the Net-related features (as known as BD-Live) is only available on a handful of upcoming Blu-ray players.

For the second month in a row, the Sony Playstation 3 beats the Microsoft Xbox 360 in aspects of monthly sales. Is this the time for Sony Playstation 3 to take the lead of new generation gaming consoles?

Ars Technica got its hands on the latest sales figures for gaming consoles, and the numbers speak for themselves. The Nintendo Wii, as usual, trumped its console competition with 432,000 units sold in February while the handheld Nintendo DS got an amazing 597,000 units sold, beside that the PlayStation 2—still quite a hit with senior gamers, apparently—came in at an impressive 351,800 units sold. Absolutely. no shockers there.

I’ve been watching Blu-ray movies on the PS3 for the past couple of weeks and, for the most part, am pleasantly surprised: It’s not a bad Blu-ray disc player. Numerous reviews of the Blu-ray experience on PS3 have been coming out over the past couple of weeks. One of the most thorough is by PC World, but here are a few of my impressions.