Comments on: Review: Sony PlayStation 3 (BD Playback)

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 05:04:05 +0000

Mark, Try changing the bitstream setting for audio in the bd/dvd menu.

By: chris

chris — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 02:22:04 +0000

I want to hook up my ps3 to my home theatre system which is sony dav dz555k.How do I do this?any help would be good.I have an hdmi cable and an optical cable,but the theatre system doesnt seem to have an optical cable socket.And my tv(sanyo LCD)and sony dav only have 1 hdmi socket each.

By: B.Greenway

B.Greenway — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:09:23 +0000

Blaine, the controllers are Bluetooth (wireless) and should work just fine as you’ve described. No need to place the PS3 at the front of the room.

By: Blaine

Blaine — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:26:51 +0000

Mr. Greenway or anyone else,
I am building a home theater and was planning on using the PS3 for gaming for my kids, a CD player for music and, mainly, as a Blu-ray player. I am planning on building into the back wall of the theater, a component rack and the projector box so I don’t have to cut any holes in my double drywalled ceiling. Do you know if the PS3 controller signal can be picked up by the console even when pointed at the proj screen during gaming? I see alot of home theaters on the internet that have the components behind the seating area or even in another room. And some of them mentioned that they use a PS3 for their BD playback. In short, do I have to have the PS3 in the front of the room for gaming?

Thanks in advance

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 19:48:50 +0000

Hi, can someone help please. Ive just purchased a PS3 and some dvd’s. I can play games all ok and when i play a dvd i can get good pictures BUT i only get background noise from a movie. When the people talk there is no VOICE coming through. This is a weird one. CAN ANYONE HELP or sugest something.(im in Australia if that helps)
I have tried a different HDMI cable as this is what im using to connect to the TV and still no change but the PS3 games work fine!!!!
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Mark

By: john

john — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:53:48 +0000

Re: the prior post on sound output with mp3 files. I have found that w/ HDMI output to recv’r the signal is always stereo, however, I can connect w/ optical cable and am able to use my recvr’s PL IIx processing to get multi channel but unfortunately loose the video signal.

john

By: B.Greenway

B.Greenway — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:42:14 +0000

Hi Matt, no I sure haven’t, our distributor still hasn’t received the BDP-HD1, they mentioned a design revision in the works as the cause of the delay.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:58:05 +0000

Mr Greenway,

I was just wondering if you were able to compair both the Playstation 3 and the Pioneer Elite BDP-HD1?? I am very interested in hearing about the results because I am not sure if I should spend the extra $900 and get the Pioneer. Please let us know if you were able to compare them – thanks!

-Matt

By: B.Greenway

B.Greenway — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 14:13:08 +0000

Hi Robert, the 60GB model also has Wi-Fi and card reader slots; I nearly went that route but gave in to the larger hard drive at the last minute. If you don’t think you need Wi-Fi (i.e. have a Ethernet connection nearby) and doubt you’ll ever use the storage card slots, then it really comes down to hard drive space.

By: Robert Carbone

Robert Carbone — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 02:51:39 +0000

I was wondering if the sony PS3 20g is backwards compatible like the 60g, if so what is the benefit to getting a 60g versus a 20g if i am only going to use it for playing games.

By: B.Greenway

B.Greenway — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 15:20:27 +0000

Hi John, I just applied PL IIx to the stereo signal.

By: john

john — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 07:39:50 +0000

I was wondering how you were able to get multichannel output w/ imported audio discs? Mine plays stereo only which is a problem w/ bookshelf surrounds and now sub woofer output.

By: clark

clark — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 02:04:59 +0000

If you want to be disappointed by the PS3’s ability to play BD just get a copy of House of Flying Daggers…….the video fluctuates from light to dark so badly when the PS3 is in 1080p mode on my Mitsubishi hdtv (1080p capable) that I have to change the settings on my PS3 to 1080i. Quite sucky if you ask me.

By: B.Greenway

B.Greenway — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 11:56:53 +0000

Westcott, Yep I did a double-take on that when I saw it. Full HQV processing in the HD-XA2 could make it the player to beat in 07. I had already resigned myself to holding onto my XA1 until third or even fourth generation players were out, but if this really does offer full HQV processing for both HD and SD discs, I might find myself too tempted to pass it up.

By: westcott

westcott — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 11:28:29 +0000

Well, it seems the Reon-VX HQV video processor will be featured in Toshiba’s new top-of-the-line HD DVD player, the HD-XA2.

This should really take HD to the next level and I can not wait to read a review of this product and what the competition will do to match this advancement in video processing.

Happy Holidays to everyone!