Should PS3 be able to play HDTV recorded in TS, TP, and MTS format? (it does)

[quitemouse]

Should PS3 be able to play HDTV recorded in TS, TP, and MTS format?

My PS3 doesnt' even show these files on the external hard drive that
I plugged in... but it has no problem playing M2T HDTV files.

I realize I can just convert these files... but I have over 680GB of them
and it will probably take a month to convert all of them...

Any advice appreciated....


EDIT: now I feel like an idiot. I did a little search and found the answer.
Now all files with TS, TP, and MTS extension play beautifually. The only
thing I had to do was to rename all the file extensions to *.MPG
The PS3 just had to be tricked into this.... I sure hope Sony corrects this
in the next firmware..(maybe v2.30, along with DTS-HD MA? )