The PS3's top vents(at a verticl position) and the vents above the USB ports acts as vent-intakes for the PS3, not as a vent for air-dissipation.
Also, the PS3's fan design is not the same as the 7/9-bladed arc fans you see commonly on PCs.

The fan blades aren't curved, but instead they are made absolutely in a vertical form.

Here is how it looks like:


The fan draws in air from the top vents and bottom vents and then exchaust it out through the back. A much better design than the 360, which only places 2 fans at the back and exhausting hot air.

An extra fan at the back isn't needed at all, and infact can actually disrupt the optimum airflow of the PS3.

Theres data still being done on the PS3 when you are quitting the game.

Mostly, when you are quitting during a Loading screen, directly after or before a loading screen, after saving a game and so on. 3 beeps like that means that the PS3 is still working on something, and automatically stops and restarts because you "requested" it to do so.

Will not harm your PS3 at all. Don't worry.

As I've said... the top vents acts as vent-intakes rather than exhaust.

Which is why in thermo-tests, horizontal position keeps the PS3 at a lower temperature. Its not a significant difference really, so in the end just put your PS3 horizontal or vertical as you see fit.

Yea, and local PSN cards should follow suit as well.

Japan has their own Home server.

Malaysia has none and will never have one.

HK and SG shares the same Home server the last time I was in closed beta. I don't know about now.

Yes its available at many gamestores.

DVI is technically HDMI without sound.

So of course obviously, HDMI-DVI is the same quality as a normal HDMI.

Thats right.

Unless the monitor has speakers itself, and has a HDMI input of course.

This post has been edited by SSJBen: Feb 10 2009, 08:06 PM

Then set it till you feel that the colors become more vibrant.

Theres only so much you can do on a TN film panel LCD. Don't expect S-PVA or S-IPS color depths.

Exactly what "videos" are you refering to?


HDCP is an image constraint token security measure, nothing to do with image quality.

Many 22" LCD monitors are on 1680x1050 res, any majority of them can downscale 1080p sources to their res. The reason why you are seeing the image on screen being pixelated when set to 1080p is because the game is locked in 720p res only(there are many PS3 games locked at 720p). So when you force the game into 1080p, it automatically scales down to 480i/576i, which looks like utter crap when it is then upscaled onto a 16x10 res monitor.

No problem, you need any help just holla me on MSN.

There are a few reasons:

- The power to your PS3(from your wall socket/plug point) may not be "clean", causing interference with the PSU. Don't forget, the PS3 uses a universal PSU.
- May be a wrong setting somewhere in your PS3 system settings.
- Wrong display mode.

See if the problem is still there or not after this.


UPnP(universal plug and play) allows your PS3 and your router to automatically set a port for each other, so you don't have to manually port forward on your PS3 and router. Saves alot of trouble IMO if your router supports UPnP.

Do you always have to unlplug and plug the power cord back in everytime then for it to work properly?


The best BT headset I've come acrossed is the recently released PS3 Official BT headset. Extremely high quality during coversations, and I love how you can dock it and use it as a microphone as well! Very comfortable too.

It depends if you want to play with voice or not, sometimes it does add experience to a game. Especially if you play in a team. RE5 has Co-Op mode, and I think it isn't much fun playing online with silence.

Actually, pretty much majority of the PS3 games aren't even running at native 1280x720 resolution. Many of them are upscaled 720p.

I don't think it is.

I once had that problem when I plugged in one of my former customer's PS3 into an unfiltered power-socket(the power socket is connected to a TV, 360, PC, Wii, battery chargers and so on). The PS3 didn't boot up correctly.

Hard reset your controller and see if it cures the problem.

Theres a button at the back of the controller right next to the top middle screw. You need a safety-pin to press it.

And I assume your 5 year old crappy DVD player is some local-no-name DVD player. Of course it plays all DVDs then, hell you throw in a DVD-RW and it'll even play.

"premium" branded DVD players(in this its the PS3 we are talking about here) are always region locked. Thats just how the policy is.

Its actually 1024 seconds....

Not really suggested.

As soon as your PS3 turns on, the Blu-Ray lens will start to emit its laser to read if anything is in the drive. If theres a disc, it'll read it and start the game if you have the auto-start game feature enabled. Even if you have it disabled, it'll still continue reading the disc for data to be displayed on the XMB.

In the long run, it wears the lens out faster. Its not significant, but just go figure everytime you turn on your PS3 you have your lens read something. It'll hurt.

I'm explaining it theoritically, so.... its all base on theory.

How a PS3 blu-ray's lens die can be many reasons, infact you'd never know why it even dies today when it worked perfectly yesterday. Its electronics, it comes and goes.

But the customer service in SG is so much better than in Malaysia!