PS3 General discussion thread

[Gnu]

Originally Posted by Kohi

That would be true two years ago. Slowly as high speed internet has made its rounds more high quality codecs have become popular, particularly H264 and MKV. While being able to play DivX is nice it is not a magic bullet. I mean, I can already stream DivX encoded files directly to my PS3 without a hitch, its the MKV files that are a problem because of the multiple streams.

Uhm, MKV isn't a codec...

H264 IS a codec, but nowhere near as prevalent as Xvid/DivX, regardless of whether it is better or not..

[Kohi]

Originally Posted by Juno

Is it true that the PS3 can do H264 files? I think I read that somewhere and I know I've got some.

Actually, I looked it up and it should be able to. I actually haven't had my PS3 play any video file directly off its harddrive, all my videos are streamed wirelessly from my computer so I don't know if its being decoded or not.

MKV support would be awesome. I have found it very difficult to get the PS3 to play MKVs with subtitles, the only way I have been able to get it done is to demux the MKV and separate the subtitle stream then changing the file format for basic subtitle support.

[boffo]

Looking at getting a new game in the next week. Haven't decided on what, but I can see it being a toss up between Assassin's Creed, Uncharted or possibly Mario Galaxy. But I suppose anything could jump out at me.

[PirateThom]

Stringer said Sony sold 100,000 PS3 consoles in America last week.

Believe what you want.

[PirateThom]

Haze cleared for launch.

December 14th.

[boffo]

Was at Future Shop today and they had a 2 for 1 special on Blu-Ray movies. Problem was there were about 6 different movies to choose from and I had no interest in any of them.

[Fyrus]

Originally Posted by boffo

Was at Future Shop today and they had a 2 for 1 special on Blu-Ray movies. Problem was there were about 6 different movies to choose from and I had no interest in any of them.

That's probably why they were on sale.

[Juno]

Originally Posted by PirateThom

Stringer said Sony sold 100,000 PS3 consoles in America last week.

Believe what you want.

They also sold 100k in a month in France since 12 Oct: MAXCONSOLE - Playstation 3 - PS3 receives a major sales boost in France - 100k in a month

Just goes to show what a price cut can do.

[boffo]

At this rate it looks like they'll nearly double their life time sales in a single month.

[boffo]

Originally Posted by Fyrus

That's probably why they were on sale.

No. It's more that I have a less than "mainstream" taste in movies. I think I saw one of the Pirates movies in there, Apocolypto, Invincible, Deja Vu and probably a couple more that slipped my mind.