PS3 Firmware Update tomorrow

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Not sure if this has been posted yet.
I got it early this morning, and didn't spot it on here.

There'll be a firmware update tomorrow, to enable multiple PSN accounts to sign in at once from a single PS3, for a new multiplayer mode being added tomorrow to Resistance 2.

Looks like a PS3 firmware update is happening today or tomorrow, folks. We reported details on the upcoming Resistance 2 patch which includes a number of features, one being multiple PSN log-ins. Many of our readers correctly chimed in, saying this is a feature not possible with the current PS3 firmware.

We got confirmation of a pending PS3 firmware update through our comments section. Insomniac Games' James Stevenson responded to our post clarifying the situation. "Resistance 2 is the first game to fully log-in two PSN accounts. LBP only logs you in locally, and does not register both accounts as online through PSN. This is a big difference, and what is required for split-screen online co-op with other folks."

Here's the smoking gun: "And it was dependent on a Sony update, hence why it wasn't in when the game shipped." If the R2 patch is available on March 26th, then a new PS3 firmware update will be necessary today or tomorrow. Obviously it will allow for multiple PSN sign-ins, but will it feature any other improvements? Stay tuned.

 

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The update will be coming in early April.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/ps3-firmware-2-7-in-april-dev-sources

Can't get that page to load here?

So what's it saying? The Resistance 2 update will go live tomorrow, but nobody will be able to use it until April? (which granted, isn't that long to wait now anyway)

Vin.

EDIT: OK, got it to load now. Hmmm, it says at the bottom

Sony couldn't confirm the release date or any other details about the 2.7 firmware at the time of writing.

Oh well, it gets here when it gets here then. One site reporting it could arrive late today, otherwise tomorrow, or that one saying maybe April.

 

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Fingers crossed for MKV support

I have hundreds of MKVs on my server, and all play through the PS3 fine.

They've all been run through MKV2VOB of course, but none of them ever needed transcoding, just a quick demux/remux, takes less than a minute.

Although Naitive MKV support would be nice, because obviously it can play the files, I'm not that fussed. There's not even the old problem of having the files named .mp4 any more. Ever since firmware 2.53, you can name them .MPG and the PS3 will play them fine. From a USB device, disk, or streaming.

Literally hundreds of TV eps in 720p MKV here, and never had one that needed to be transcoded, and never had one that wouldn't play. The PS3 also does a better job of playing these MKV files than VLC did on the same display.

Vin.

(Still, I'm not arguing, support "out of the box" would be very nice, but I'm just saying it's no real hardship to run them through MKV2VOB.)

 

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mvktovob is no good for subtitles though, it has to transcode in order to hard code them into the file. Mkv support would eliminate that annoyance.

That's a fair comment.

However does the PS3 support subtitles at all?
I've never checked?

Can it play DivX subtitle files?

If so, more clever than I thought.

But yes, of course naitive MKV support would be best of all anyway, I was just trying to point out that MKV files can otherwise be played... but no, fair enough, no subs!

Vin.