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.
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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.
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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.
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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.

Video quality with native 1080p Blu-ray discs is superb: I’ve had the good fortune to compare the PS3 against the Panasonic DMP-BD10, both of which are connected via HDMI through the Pioneer Elite Pioneer VSX-82TXS A/V receiver to the superb Pioneer PRO-FHD1 1080p 50-inch plasma. The 1080p version of Mission Impossible III looked clear, sharp, deep, and colorful—indistinguishable between the two players.

No upscaling to 1080p from regular DVDs: While the Panasonic player does an amazing job of making my regular old 480p Deadwood DVD look high-def in 50 glorious inches, the PS3 does not (nor did it upscale the Björk videos from all the 5.1 Surrounded DVDs I played). Fortunately, because the video processing on both pieces of Pioneer equipment is so good, the difference was hardly noticeable more than eight feet away. But I’m surprised, considering the PS3 is the only Blu-ray player that’s capable of handling HDMI 1.3 (next-gen HDMI that’s capable of doing HD soundtracks and more color depth, also known as “Deep Color”).

It’s strange that the PS3 is future-proofed for Deep Color-capable TVs that aren’t even out yet and HDMI 1.3 components that aren’t really out yet either, but it won’t do simple upscaling that would work nicely on today’s 1080p TVs. Not to mention the annoying fact that Blu-ray discs won’t play in full 1080p on TVs that don’t support HDCP, as PC Magazine’s John Dvorak pointed out last week.

Presumably, this oversight will be remedied with the promised software upgrade/patch that will also make PlayStation 2 games work on the PS3. That said, I wonder if the PS3 will be outdated by the time these next-gen Deep Color and HDMI 1.3 devices hit the market.

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