Bug in PS3 Firmware 2.5: incompatible with Sony home theaters? |
A bug was found in the latest firmware update for the PlayStation 3,
preventing it from displaying video on HDTV correctly on some
state-of-the-art home theaters.Not just any home theater system though, but Sony home theaters. "Ironic" just doesn't cut it anymore.
The bug was found by the guys at IGN, who reports that after installing firmware 2.50, video just blanked out on them:
We installed firmware 2.50 yesterday only to be greeted by a blank screen. [...] we discovered it was the Sony amp/receiver that was incompatible with the new firmware. We were able to get a picture again by cutting the Sony amp out of the loop and going straight into the projector.
For the record the IGN AU PS3 setup includes a 7.1 Sony amp/receiver supporting 1080p over HDMI and a 1080p Sony projector. The fact that the new firmware renders the PS3 unusable with this top-line Sony home theatre is utterly boggling.
On a related note, while trouble-shooting the problem we hooked the PS3 up to the projector via composite and also found that it's currently only displaying a black and white image over this video signal. These are both quite serious bugs to sneak through with the latest firmware.
They are currently waiting on Sony Australia for a response on the problem. Any of you guys experienced this bug?
Via IGN
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i have a 5.1 Sony Cinema system, and i have NEVER been able to get the FULL 5.1 channels through the optical out, and i dont even know what im doing wrong. help anyone? x
since 2.5 I haven't been able to connect to the folding @home servers neither.I am not the only one either, there is a whole thread on it at the IGN forums
I hope the recovery menu stays on newer updates.
there was a system update a while ago that was not neccessary but it updated folding@home to life with playstation maybe this is why
i dont have my ps3 on my hd tv but when i go to watch a video the screen goes black for a second then it says av2 and the video quality is really bad
Ironic, indeed. XD
Interesting. But keep in mind, there are two components involved. While an update to the PS3 is what caused the issue, it's still possible the amp was at fault. After all it didn't break anyone else's HDMI connection and the PS3 continued to work straight to the projector. I'm more apt to blame Sony's amp then their HDMI STANDARD implementation. Maybe they screwed up their amp and kept building in a fix into the PS3. Then in this last update that fix was stripped.
thanks for that random comment anyway, i dont know if its related, probably not but when i installed 2.5, the screen was black resetting the picture by holding down the power button didnt work it required you to hold it turn it off hold it again, and just kept going with that, or something like that, anyway when it wasnt displaying the video i couldve sweared i was in the recovery menu, because you could hear button presses (you turned it on the same way) but it definately wasnt on the xmb (btw audio was optical out)
For some reason the Life With Playstation Folding At Home program would always say it couldn't connect to the server.
yes because that is logical?????? about no, waste money putting in a fix each time plus its a update once fixed its only it would occur again although possible, not logical
try the AFD button select a PL (pro logic) environment also 2.5 works fine the HDMI is a passthrough meaning the amp doesnt process anything (meaning no upscaling) *picture on maxconsole was of a muteki amp*
problem loading "work units" since I've updated to 2.5. Crazy to think how they have to keep paying devs money to give us a free update that screws things up.
It's completely logical. Obviously others agree, as usual. While you site here on this entire page with zero stars because as usual you have nothing but BS to claim. When you are going to learn? You clearly have no clue as to what you are talking about. I've proven that on many articles so far. Now sit there quietly and wait for your alpha male to come along and sniff your butt like he usauly does. Where you at Mr. Douche?
For you guys with F@H issues. Did you only update to 2.5 or did you also perform the resent F@H update?
i use a non-HD tv and ever since goin to 2.50 all of my videos now display in black and white
I've been watch my mpeg2 video since I bought my PS3 and everything worked fine, And then on Saturday after I finished installing the new FW update, my mpeg 1+2 and MP4 video stopped working properly and I use an old school Standard TV for everything. ...... This is what I posted Yesterday 20 Oct 2008.... "Has anyone notice that there is something wrong with the video setting with this new FW update. Every thing works fine, DVD , Blu-Ray works great and sound fantastic, except my Mpeg 2 and MP4 file, the play in black and white, I tried setting the video setting and nothing work. It's almost like play NTSC game on Pal machines."
I have my ps3 hooked up to two tv's using a splitter and when I upgraded to 2.50 the colors of videos were off (not black and white but visibly wrong). I ended up going into the control panel and changing the AV Settings and got the video to play normal again.
Forgot to include that the color problem was only hapenning on one of the two TV's but when I changed the AV Setting it now displays fine on both TVs.
50 inch sony Bravia has real problems with ps3. blinking is a real pain in games and when watching video. God this sucks. Sony ps3 and sony tv's seem to have real problems. I bought the 50inch sony thinking it would be the best for ps3. Seems like sony need to sort this problem, But probably don't know how to. Pulling the cable and plugging it back in dose not fix it either. After spending £1200 on a tv to have these problems sucks big style.
i have been affected by the black and white video problems playing on the hdd. the videos on the ps3 hdd turn out in black but there is a solution. all you have to so is change the frame rate of the video to 25 fps. download this software: AVI frame rate changer if you cant find it type on google: change fram rate then click on the first one. once you have got the software run it and browse for your file. then change the frame rate to 25fps. if you dont know if it has been changed then you can check by right clicking the file then properties then summary then it will tell you the frame rate. then transfer it to the ps3 then you can watch that video in COLOUR. Mail me if you need any help with this. this is only temporary solution until sony fixes this problem Thank You
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