Sony PS4 Performs Worse Than PS3 As A Blu ray DVD Player. New home entertainment console launches only roll around once every 6 7 years, with hardware shortages, pre release hype, and the rabidly competitive nature of the gaming industry coming together to make each one a noteworthy event. Thats of course the case with Sonys Play. How_to_replace_ps4_hard_drive.JPG/468px-How_to_replace_ps4_hard_drive.JPG' alt='Ps3 Blu Ray Drive Software' title='Ps3 Blu Ray Drive Software' />How to Play PS2 Games on a PS3. If you have a PS3 model that is backwards compatible, you can play your PS2 games just as you would play your PS3 games. If your PS3. Download software in the CD DVD Bluray Tools category. Provide the best DVD Ripper and DVD Copier software, which can copy DVD to hard drive or blank DVD, or convert DVD to AVIDivX,WMV,iPodPSP,VCDSVCD formats. Station 4, which has so far been doing fine business for the Japanese giant, and naturally follows in the footsteps of the PS3, which remained of interest to AV users for its perfectly accurate Blu ray Disc output quality. The PS3s adeptness at playing Blu ray was arguably a key point in doing away with the rival HD DVD format. Sonys decision to include Blu ray BD ROM drives in every PS3 unit wasnt a hugely popular one at the time, with the then fledgling technology contributing to the machines 5. US launch price tag. AntkK1AyQ/T53vh7rFDRI/AAAAAAAABo4/m49iiPsUGm8/s1600/ps3-emulation.png' alt='Ps3 Blu Ray Drive Software' title='Ps3 Blu Ray Drive Software' />But history proved Sony correct, with all three next gen consoles using Blu ray in some form. Microsofts Xbox One is a bona fide BD machine, and for games, Blu ray Disc Association founding member Panasonic supplied a black book format which is derived from Blu ray they also supplied DVD like technology and drives for the Nintendo Gamecube and Wii, although Nintendo machines have never been officially able to play films from disc. With Blu ray now entrenched as one of several possible ways to watch films at home and obviously the highest quality one and HD DVD no more than a curiosity, theres less riding on the success of the PS4 from an AV perspective. In fact, Sony Computer Entertainment SCE have been playing coy and have marketed their system as the anti Xbox choice from the earliest opportunity, reassuring players who were disappointed with Microsofts heavy emphasis on television integration features by reminding them that Play. Station is for the players and is all about gaming. HDTVTest took delivery of a Sony PS4 pre Christmas, and weve been checking the systems media playback features out as well as also playing a good amount of Warframe, but dont tell anyone that. Its a games machine first and foremost, but for curious users still on the fence about the next gen, how well does it fulfil its secondary features Lets find out. Note this review concerns the most recent PS4 system software at the time of publication December 1. Ps3 Blu Ray Drive Software' title='Ps3 Blu Ray Drive Software' />SU 3. Design. Clearly remembering the criticism of the original PS3 design, Sony has almost nailed it first time with the styling of the PS4. Most of the system uses sleek matte black plastic, and the entire design is slanted rather than being boxy, the edges are tilted backwards. The Blu ray drive is hidden on the front, as are two USB ports. Most impressively, there is no external power supply needed despite the systems small size, thats been built in. Our only real criticism of the machine is that one of the panels on top is gloss black, which means it will no doubt soon succumb to scratches when its cleaned. Other than that, its a very sleek unit. Dashboard. The Play. Station 4 makes an immediate good first impression with its streamlined menus. Theyre simple but tasteful at the same time in a way which the boxy Windows 8 ish interface of the Xbox One is not. On top of that, theres optional background music. Call us sentimental, but this small touch gives a soothing feeling and might well create a sense of wonder in all but the most stoic of gamers. There are few AV options to set up, with Video Output Settings containing controls governing resolution, TV size for certain 3. D content, as well as video levels settings for RGB and YCbCr output formats, which we never had to touch. Blu ray Playback. To us, the Sony PS4 appeared to have Blu ray playback software on board from the get go. Apparently thats not actually the case, but it was downloaded so seamlessly that it may as well have been. Unlike the Xbox One, the PS3 happily played back our recordable Blu ray Discs containing our custom test patterns. BD R playback isnt a killer issue for most people who are only watching store bought movies on factory pressed discs, but blocking it is such a comparatively useless anti piracy measure that we wonder why Microsoft bothered. In any case, we were effortlessly able to confirm top notch, totally accurate, unadulterated playback of Blu ray movies against several other known good reference players. Thats a small advantage over the Xbox Ones very good Blu ray playback, which has a small but generally not noticeable lightness inaccuracy in its output. Theres no noise reduction or other unwanted processing, no loss of resolution in the luma brightness or obvious loss of resolution in the chroma colour channel, pixel cropping, chroma upsampling jaggies, or other nasties to spoil the party with 2. Blu ray. With 2. PS4 dutifully reproduces it. This alone will be enough to make the Sony Play. Station 4 a very usable BD player for most gamers. Thats the end of the good news, however. If you play 1. 08. PS4, youll find that the system deinterlaces it, and does a poor job of it. There doesnt seem to be any semi advanced motion adaptive deinterlacing on the PS4 at all, with the entire screen and not just the moving areas being deinterlaced with a fairly crude algorithm. Visually, that translates into fine details flickering slightly. Of course, its more obvious in test charts than it is in content, but the resolution is being lost either way. Nearly all films are stored at 2. Blu ray player such as the PS3, or nearly any standalone player. Dont think about setting the output to 1. Even with the output set to 1. Theres no native path for 1. Blu ray content on the PS4 yet, everything goes through the sub par 1. The diagonal interpolation test which tests for a players ability to smooth jaggies during interlace to progressive conversion didnt return good results either, with jaggies being obvious on steep angles. Unsurprisingly with all of this in mind, there is no provision made for film mode deinterlacing detecting the presence of film content stored in an interlaced signal. Convert Video To 3Gp Format. Just so its clear, here are the tests from the 6. Spears Munsil disc 2 2 3. Fail. 2 2 2 4 Fail. PF T 2. 4fps inside 6. MPEG metadata Fail. Fail. 2 3 2 3 Fail. Fail. 3 2 3 2 2 Fail. Bajaj Pulsar 220 Service Manual. Fail. 6 4 Fail. Fail. Time adjusted Fail. Likewise, for European users watching European content BBC TV shows are an obvious example, its worth knowing that the Blu ray format does not have provision for 2. PS4s lack of deinterlacing capabilities. Howlville The Dark Past Game'>Howlville The Dark Past Game. With 1. 08. 0i HD content, this is actually not a gigantic problem, and we imagine most users wont notice owed to the high HD resolution masking the resolution loss. Its still poorer quality than many standalone players, however. Its a strange decision on Sonys part, because when first launched, the PS3 system simply output 1. AV system AV receiver or TV would do the deinterlacing. Wed hope this is something Sony addresses with a system update either give us good deinterlacing with film mode detection, or just output the 1. DVD Playback. The PS4s lack of deinterlacing prowess is a much bigger problem in the standard definition realm, where theres much more interlaced content, and where every last drop of available resolution is precious. The good news is that progressively flagged content on DVD is fine.