SwiftDeath
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Whoa. They are really hyping it up
But Viv that suggest this week 0_0
That is like almost somewhat kind of in a roundabout maybe, snowball's chance in hell, specific....
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PS4 FW 1.7 coming soon (HDCP off, Export video to USB, & Video Editor)
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But Viv that suggest this week 0_0
That is like almost somewhat kind of in a roundabout maybe, snowball's chance in hell, specific....
RedRooster
Member
The announcement of the firmware release date is this week?!
It's probably best to just say the announcement of the release date is "soon."
psychotron
Member
No idea. Suggesting that there's a lot of big news coming this week. Perhaps that's part of it.
AyaisMUsikWhore
Member
#Dead
I know! Crazy! Whatever happened to "Soon". Now we are dealing with teases for the same week!
Dead Prince
Banned
Whoa. They are really hyping it up
watch it just be the games for vita that was just announced here for UK
Any chance of getting better Facebook integration in a future FW update? I'd really like to see which of my Facebook friends have a PS4. It would be a great way to keep in touch with old friends that I otherwise wouldn't know have the system. I fully expected this feature to exist when the Facebook integration was announced, and am disappointed to see that all I'm really able to do is post screenshots and videos to my Facebook wall (which I have no interest in doing). It doesn't seem like it would be too difficult to see what other friends of mine have registered their Facebook accounts on their PS4.
Zatoichi's Cane
Member
Typical Sony with their FW update speed....
ethomaz
Banned
I think the speed if fine...
The system is already stable... so I don't want a update that mess the things... in most cases more time = more tests = less issues.
Lord of Castamere
Member
Planetside 2 release date incoming I can feel it.
Broken Hope
Member
Setting your PS4's audio to PCM won't give you 5.1 in PS4's Netflix app. You have to set PS4's audio to Bitstream DTS ... or Dolby ... to get actual 5.1 in the app. I've placed my ear to my surrounds and no audio comes out when PCM is selected.
Doesn't matter, your receiver should still play the correct codec. With Bitstream DTS set on my PS4, my receiver reads Digital Plus.
What the receiver shows when playing games or sitting in the Netflix app not watching anything (it's a 7.1 receiver but the two back surrounds are currently unplugged):
And playing one of the movies in Netflix that supports it, the receiver shows it's correct:
And once you change the different set of PS4's audio options while playing a Blu-ray movie to Bitstream, you get the lovely DTS-HD LED. mmmm DTS-HD.
You shouldn't be bit streaming game audio, you want to use PCM for that so it's uncompressed.
Bluekaveli
Member
They Vice City remake coming this week. I can smell it.
Because that's the only damn thing I fucking want.
Because that's the only damn thing I fucking want.
psychotron
Member
Shenmue 3 PS4/Vita Crossbuy for sure.
eighty(one)
Member
NOOOOOO MP3 SUPPORT YET FUCK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU SONY
I honestly do not care about a single one of those features.
And now I am sad
I'm getting irritated that 3D Bluray functionality still hasn't shown up. I've held off on a 3D player because it was announced PS4 would have the functionality. Then they delayed the update.
I'm sitting with my unopened Jurassic Park 3D film and I'd love to watch that and more >:0(
psychotron
Member
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SwiftDeath
Member
Ah good we are back to "soon"
I was worried there for a sec they might actually release something about the FW update
Dodged a bullet there
:'(
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
What should you use on the actual receiver? DTS? Dolby? Neo 6? I get so confused...
Uno Venova
Banned
My complaining won't make them deviate from their schedule so I guess I will have to learn a new move: patience.
BruiserBear
Banned
If it's going to be this week, you'd think they could just say "this week".
SirMossyBloke
Member
Multichannel when it's selected on the PS4 as lpcm. If you select DD or DTS it should switch automatically. Don't bother with all that other stuff.
Prototype Viktor
Member
Never give a date you might have to move is Sony's mantra this gen
psychotron
Member
Sooooon.
Hoho for breakfast
Member
This is like the achilles heel of the PS4. Xbox One will double as a time machine in the next update coming in a week and PS4 will allegedly become more "stable" with no discernible difference whatsoever in roughly 2-4 months.
But that's exactly what they want you to do :O
Cthulhu_Steev
Member
I used the following workaround in order to get my center speaker working over HDMI:
-set sound to optical audio (even if you're not using optical)
-make sure only Linear PCM is selected
Goodacre0081
Member
Whoa. They are really hyping it up
the "something for everyone" phrase was used in the official statement and in the AVS forum leak. we'll probably see this tomorrow.
Broken Hope
Member
You shouldn't select anything on the actual receiver, just let it decode the PCM singal, it will send it to the correct speakers and will be the full bandwidth signal.
Broken Hope
Member
Looks like the video editing may not make 1.70.. gives an estimated date for the update too, let's see how close he is.
http://www.avforums.com/threads/the-playstation-4-general-chat-thread.1790554/page-170#post-20577931
http://www.avforums.com/threads/the-playstation-4-general-chat-thread.1790554/page-170#post-20577931
RedAssedApe
Banned
hope there is stuff in there that they haven't announced yet. or at least include the twitch stuff that they said was going to come in a later update :\
To be fair, Sony is updating the firmware on the PS4 just about once a month, they're just not adding much in the updates.
Cthulhu_Steev
Member
Sony have been saving all month for this fw update, they don't have a war chest of money like MS do, so they can't really afford this.
It's only because they love us they're going to fix the clock.
It's only because they love us they're going to fix the clock.
lowrider007
Licorice-flavoured booze?
Setting your PS4's audio to PCM won't give you 5.1 in PS4's Netflix app. You have to set PS4's audio to Bitstream DTS ... or Dolby ... to get actual 5.1 in the app. I've placed my ear to my surrounds and no audio comes out when PCM is selected.
Doesn't matter, your receiver should still play the correct codec. With Bitstream DTS set on my PS4, my receiver reads Digital Plus.
What the receiver shows when playing games or sitting in the Netflix app not watching anything (it's a 7.1 receiver but the two back surrounds are currently unplugged):
And playing one of the movies in Netflix that supports it, the receiver shows it's correct:
And once you change the different set of PS4's audio options while playing a Blu-ray movie to Bitstream, you get the lovely DTS-HD LED. mmmm DTS-HD.
I find that very confusing, so when the PS4 on the OS it's actually in DTS? I much preferred how it worked on the PS3 which seemed to give you a truer representation of what codec you was getting, it would switch the amp all the time but my PS4 just says DTS for everything which is annoying.
It's because changing the audio stream is not a real solution. It's a crappy workaround.
The real way to do it is to leave the audio in PCM (default mode) and the PS4 should pass the audio track straight through to the receiver, which should detect the surround track, and decode it properly. We should not need to change to bitstream.
In fact, changing to bitstream isn't desirable for games, which output in surround sound just fine.
There's something wrong either with the Sony OS, the Netflix app, or both, but I wish someone would just fix it.
chrominance
Member
I see the Sony tradition of generally underwhelming updates with the occasional awesome surprise is coming to a middle. No release date still for this firmware, and oh by the way we've already passed the one-year anniversary of Sony saying your PS4 would be able to suspend/resume games instantly, where's that functionality again?
But first things first, I suppose. Fingers crossed for this week.
But first things first, I suppose. Fingers crossed for this week.
Glorious Ownage
Member
Lol so one of the few features actually announced for this update may not even make it. This sounds like it was completely reactionary to the MS firmware news initially and now a couple weeks turns into six.
psychotron
Member
I'm not going to complain until I see that officially happening, but it would be a real letdown.
I fear the update will be pretty disappointing, at least for the amount of time we have to wait for this. :/
mitchman
Gold Member
Only if they used the feature that was buggy. Chances are they didn't.
VanCityGamer
Member
Really hoping we can get this update done soon so that we can move on to DLNA support!
Oh, and is full multitasking still coming? Are we going to be able to have two games running and switch between them seamlessly like we currently can with Netflix?
Oh, and is full multitasking still coming? Are we going to be able to have two games running and switch between them seamlessly like we currently can with Netflix?
SwiftDeath
Member
When was this ever suggested to be coming?
Selecting PCM just forces PCM in all games no matter what audio they may be using. All I notice using PCM is the audio is about 5-10db lower on my receiver. I've cranked my receiver on both audio formats (PCM, Bitstream DTS) but I can't hear a difference in quality. The difference between DTS and DTS-HD in Blu-ray movies is huge. Even the PCM setting in the movie 300 is a beast. But PCM just sounds like a lower mixed DTS signal when I'm playing a game. So I'm going to just stick with DTS right now. Maybe when I get my new back surrounds for my full 7.1 setup, I'll test it again.
Edit: And I'm using Netflix almost daily so I really don't feel like switching the audio setting all the time just to get 5.1
RoadHazard
Gold Member
Still coming? That was never supposed to come, and it never will. The reason you can have both a game and Netflix running at the same time (actually, they aren't technically running at the same time - the game gets suspended (still in RAM but not actively running anymore) when you start Netflix) is because games and OS + apps have separate parts of the memory dedicated to them (5 GB for games, 3 GB for other stuff, as far as we know), so they are both in RAM at the same time. This allows the system to very quickly switch between them. But that wouldn't work with two games. A running game can use up to 5 GB of memory, so two games couldn't be in RAM at the same time. The first game's RAM data would have to written to the HDD (like when you put a PC in hibernation mode), and that would likely take longer than quitting the first game and booting the second.
What we are expecting to come is standby suspension of games, i.e. the game still being kept in RAM as the console is put in standby mode (not when it's fully powered down) so that you can jump right back to where you were when you boot the console again.
Multitasking between multiple games was NEVER coming.
Rogue_Ledr
Banned
Where is my 3D Blu-Ray support?
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