Go To Latest Video ReviewsPlayStation 3 Firmware 2.70 Breaks Media Streaming
| Author | Hugo Jobling |
| Published | 8th Apr 2009 |
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TrustedReviews NewslettersI thought Sony was past breaking the PS3 with firmware updates, but apparently not. Thanks to Firmware 2.70, many PlayStation 3 owners are finding themselves no longer able to stream media from NAS devices.
The problem seems pretty widespread but a bit of probing suggests that the reason behind the issues is Sony making the PlayStation 3 stricter in its dealings with DLNA servers. The annoying upshot being that - arguably - the issue isn't Sony's but rather a laxness in the way some media servers handle the files they're streaming.
Luckily updating my ReadyNAS NV to a newer, beta, firmware, fixed the issue but having to do so was a pain in the proverbial. Alas for some of you there is no such respite.
Sony is supposedly working on a hotfix post-haste; in the mean time get exercising that patience.
Thanks to everyone who called Sony out on this one - there's more of us suffering that I would have thought.
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DEB said on 8th April 2009
Hugo said on 9th April 2009
AAC (purchased from iTunes in case that's a consideration) is working fine for me stored locally and on my NAS box.
DEB said on 9th April 2009
OK, I tested streaming from Windows Media Player(Windows 7). Video and music streamed ok, all my music is AAC format. Now I am thinking it is something worse since some tracks play... more
stripy said on 9th April 2009
@DEB Yep post 2.7 update my ps3 refuses to play any aac files. Doesn't make any difference whether they were ripped on my pc or the ps3 it just comes up as "The data type... more
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I have not tested streaming since the upgrade last night but that is the least of my problems. It looks like they have broken AAC music format! Anyone else having this issue?