Sony pushed out their 1.5 firmware update today, and the biggest improvement contained therein is a fix for progressive scan problems for PS2 titles. While Sony didn’t actually ever admit there was anything wrong (just as they’ve gone silent about the 1080i shenanigans), 1up et al are reporting that PS2 games that formerly looked worse on the PS3 actually look better now, largely due to the quality of the video signal. I know this will please Chuf, whose recently been pining for a solution to PS2 games looking like garbage over S-video on his new HDTV (when he’s not haunted by the ghosts of pixels past). Folks, we may be creeping steadily closer to a PS3 purchase here at eat-sleep-game. However, don’t expect a resolution to the 1080i issue, well, ever. The PS3 has no hardware scaler, and doing that kind of thing in software is incredibly resource intensive. Given that developers have been having a hard time keeping a steady frame rate as it is, it would be a little much to ask. Maybe Sony will add it to hardware revision 2.
-Aegies