Unfortunately, the PlayStation 3 is not different from other recent consoles or High Definition hardware. This time a rather major bug seems to have found it’s way to the store selves, as reports say that the PS3 plays Blu-ray movies in 1080i (interlaced) rather than 1080p or 720p resolution (progressive). This means that a majority of the picture sharpness is lost. Also there are issues in the scaling of games. Luckily a firmware update is to be released shortly.

So I’ve found pretty quickly that the PS3 has some MAJOR High Definition scaling issues. It’s affecting almost everyone in both games and movies. Many games made for 1080p won’t scale properly to 1080i, and sometimes 720p. I’m having a huge issue with Blu-Ray movies. It shows as 1080i (even though I have my HDTV setup as 720p in the Media Bar), but it’s very grainy and looks like standard DVD. I spent 2 hours on the phone tonight with Sony Customer Support trying to troubleshoot the issue. The first guy I spoke with for 45 minutes, and he was about as smart as a retarded monkey. He was basically telling me that my HDTV was broken because it can’t display 720p, even though I told him some games and all downloaded content displays fine at 720p. He wanted me to try a few things and call back. So 20 minutes later, I called back and spoke to a fairly helpful woman. After reading what happened in the last phone conversation, she put me on hold for 2 minutes, and came back and said it’s a known issue that is being looked into.

Source: Loot-Ninja