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Far Cry 2 dated for EuropeSony announced today that the UK PlayStation 3 community will be receiving a new system software update on Tuesday December 18th. The announcement was posted through PlayStation UK's system software updates page and details all the new features that will be added with this update.
One of the most exciting features to be released was the recently announced partnership with DivX Inc., to bring DivX playback to the PlayStation 3. This has been something that PS3 owners have looking forward as the system excepted most movie/video files in the past except those that are DivX encoded.
Another new feature is a voice changer that can be used in conjunction with your bluetooth headset. The voice changer will allow you to change the tone of a voice being input from your headset or microphone. There are five preset levels from which the user can choose from. The tone will be modifiable when using voice/video chat under Friends.
One last feature that the update brings is for the Blu-Ray player as it updates the Blu-Ray profile to the new 1.1. The biggest feature that the new profile brings is the ability to play picture in picture videos (it is dependent on each individual disc). The picture in picture may be useful when watching a movie and in a corner there is a video of the director commenting on a particular scene.
Below are complete details of the 2.10 update:
An update to the PS3 system software was released on December 18, 2007. If you update your PS3 system, the system software version will be 2.10 and the following features will be updated. In order to download PS3 system software version 2.10, you will need a minimum 120Mb of free space on either the PS3 Hard Disk Drive (System Update) or on removable storage media (PC Update).
The PLAYSTATION 3 system software version 2.10 update includes the following:
Voice Changer
The Voice Changer feature has been added to voice / video chat. Visit the Voice Changer guide in Help & Support under PS3 at eu.playstation.com for more details.
*To play VC-1 (WMV) format files, you must go to Settings > [System Settings] and set [Enable WMA Playback].
- Copyright-protected files or files that were encoded by using DivX 3.11 cannot be played. - Files that are 2GB or more cannot be played.
**You may now be able to use several additional features such as playback of two videos at the same time with Profile 1.1-compatible Blu-ray Discs. The available features vary depending on the disc.
***The management data that is used by the Blu-ray Disc is saved.
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Sweet. Those guys at sony do work hard to please us. :)
That's very sweet. I really don't care for the voice changer. Overall very nice
This might sound funny to some of you, but that voice changer thing sounds great to me. I can have tons of fun with that thing!
lmfao!!! once again this was on www.qj.net this morning!!!...
guys plz j get a real job n stop ripping other websites off!!!
psn id: gingo.... this update sounds great and with the warhawk patch and expansion coming later in the week this is like sonys very own christmas present to us, well it feels like that to me =)
The voice changer sounds awesome, but I never use my Headset, like, NEVER!
Why no In-Game-XMB?!
sweet update! i hope they make it possible to watch videos on the inet that are in windows media plaer format cuz whenever i go to websites that use tht, it says tht the application is not supported.
i have been waiting for divx for a while, and i never expected for sony to incorporate wmv
now i dont have to convert everything now!
wow, see im not just saying this cuase im a ps3 fan, geez ps3 has xbox spanked only thing xobox has is online gaming witch is good but ps3 will beat it , they just need more time to get their ideas together cus this divx is kool
Nice update can't wait for it to be released in America. Hopefully soon.
Holy sht leeman, seriously stfu. It's getting bad now. You're the most negative mother fcker I've ever met, you need to sell your dam PS3 and go suck Bill Gates's dik. BTW, Divx support is worth more than your life, so if you won't mind making yourself look like a duche bag on these comments, I suggest you stop posting and GTFO.
does anyone know if xvid will be able to play on the ps3 after this update??
im not sure if they are backwards compatible?
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Hey gingo, i think we all know that your psn id is gingo.
lolll
PSN id: Fallen_Guardian..... ok, enough with the damn In-game XMB, they are working on it and they'll get it out when its done right and works well. do u want some crappy in-game XMB or a awesome in-game xmb?
anyways, this update is sweet, i cant wait to play around with the voice changer lol.
Its alright nothing too good about yet it improves PS3s multimedia capabilities
ok "lithgow" chill out buddy, and i dont think the cursing is all that neccessary i mean really.
psn id: nwarelias.... yeah um no ingame xmb, im not that excited
this would be a nice update. O_o
Im in U.S and Just downloaded 2.1(New Jersey to be exact). DIVX works excellent(all previous files that said unsupported on media server now play) and the bitmapping audio addition does sound excellent. Voice changer was fun for the one round of COD4 i used it. PS3 seems to be running smoother(Just FYI for those who get paranoid about these minor updates). Thanks Sony(Mr. Tretton), now no more freaking converting!
Firmware update v2.10 is available in US, just downloaded it at 10:30pm EST !!!!
yea i downloaded mine too
psn id J08hawks
hmmm i wonder what people are gonna whine about when IGXMB is finally released.
all in all a great update hands down everyone is expecting this in-game xmb which would be good but give it time, man I swear people on here are so demanding at times and never have patience. Once in -game xmb happens i swear they would be whining for something else lol. I blame PSU for giving notion that it was going to be released on the firmware 2.0 and when it didnt it kinda made sony look bad.
Dec 17, 2007, 10:00pm Vancouver, BC - Update available in North America
No DivX3.11 ?
No mention of XviD ?
Umm Mpeg ?
And what about sound codecs ?
A step in the generally right direction, bit more effort Sony please.
2 GB MAX ON THE DIVX PLAYBACK! H*ell, you can't even play whole movies.
Thanks for this new system software! Great work Sony! Aftar Home and al that you can ad Xvid support to? :D
fsck yes!