Autoplay seems to have changed after FW3.0

[bhampton]

Hi,

I rely on autoplay. I leave instructions for guests of my home on how to use the HT and even though it's a fairly simple system, Pilots of SW Airlines can still find it difficult because it's not the traditional HT setup with a setup player and a TV.

Anyway... The PS3 auto play function seems to work less often now. Sometimes when I get everything booted up I'm looking at the What's New (which I have dis-abled but it's still there) section of the games menu instead of watching the disc I put in.

Anyone else experience something similar? ... It used to be that whenever I put a Blu Ray, DVD, CD, or SACD into the player it would stop whatever it was doing (except if it had a game loaded up or something) and start playing the disc directly but I find myself seeking out the stuff in the menus now.

Edit - I actually had the "what's new" thing turned on when I checked... maybe that's why it's acting diffferent.


-Brian

[jsteinhauer]

Originally Posted by bhampton

Hi,

I rely on autoplay. I leave instructions for guests of my home on how to use the HT and even though it's a fairly simple system, Pilots of SW Airlines can still find it difficult because it's not the traditional HT setup with a setup player and a TV.

Anyway... The PS3 auto play function seems to work less often now. Sometimes when I get everything booted up I'm looking at the What's New (which I have dis-abled but it's still there) section of the games menu instead of watching the disc I put in.

Anyone else experience something similar? ... It used to be that whenever I put a Blu Ray, DVD, CD, or SACD into the player it would stop whatever it was doing (except if it had a game loaded up or something) and start playing the disc directly but I find myself seeking out the stuff in the menus now.

-Brian

I don't like it either. I usually leave a game disk in the machine. Used to be I could turn it on, come back a few minutes later and press start and load a save game. Now I have to turn it on, wait and then find the game in the menu. I concede, however, that some might prefer how it works after the update.

[saprano]

Autoplay still works as before, just turn off the "whats new"

[bhampton]

OK,

I was surprized to see "what's new" was on for my PS3 and I turned it off and maybe that will settle it.

Having the ability to just put in a disc and have it play by itself was something I missed.

=Brian

[Mobe1969]

Autoplay is knobbled now. It now only does it if you insert the disc after startup. If the disc is already in place, it does not.

[BillCable]

That's actually what I always from Autoplay. I don't want the disc to boot when I first power up because half the time one of my daughters left in some LEGO game. But I'd love for it to launch whatever disc I insert instead of me having to find it and hit X.

[moothemagiccow]

I'm curious as to why this kind of update never results in an option.
I would like to be able to put a disc in a powered-off ps3 and have it start up and play it. The way it works is ok if your system is on all the time.

[bhampton]

My autoplay is not working still after I turned off "what's new".

I have a fairly simple setup PS3-AVR-Projector.

I used to be able to put in CDs and SACDs and listen to them without having to turn on the projector. This was great because I don't need the projector on to listen to music.

I can't do this now. I just tried with a CD. It would not autoplay if I started the system with it. It would not autoplay after I had the system on and then inserted the disc.

If I can't fix this I may need another player.

Edit - Never mind, I have only had "this" ps3 for a few weeks and there was a CD info lookup license agreement thing that had never been "accepted" yet that was causing the CD not to autoplay.

-Brian