PS3 v2.52 vastly improved BD playback stability

[mustang7071]

**Pre-2.52 firmware**

I must be one of the unlucky ones on BD playback on PS3. It really looked like a crappy drive or a thermal problem.

My PS3 would frequently go into a seizure on a variety of BDs during
playback - everything from Sunshine, Matrix Ultimate, National Treasure - you name it - it would freeze. If I managed to exit gracefully it wouldn't "see" a disc when the disc was ejected and then re-inserted. It would require a hard power off to reset the drive. Even after successful playback and graceful exit to XMB it couldn't replay the same disc!

Time for a trip to the repair depot I thought (worse thing this problem wasn't reproducible...the seizure happened at different spots on the same disc)

**2.52 firmware**

Amazingly 2.52 seems to have corrected everything - BDs playback fine, chapter jumping, stopping, restarting, auto-resume (on non-BDJ discs), soft power off and on again - all seems to be working as it should be.

I am curious whether anyone else has experienced this - seriously 2.50 was the absolute worse - I couldn't finish playback thru' any disc. pre-2.50 was touch 'n go. I am but .