Monday, December 17, 2007

Firmware Update 2.10 Now Available: Go Get It!

The official Firmware Update 2.10 is now available for download on your PLAYSTATION 3. I've just installed it about a minute ago. The full change list below.

Main Features Revised in System Software Version 2.10

A voice changing feature has been added to enable changing of your voice pitch during chat. You can adjust this setting under [Settings] > [Accessory Settings] > [Voice Changer].

DivX and VC-1 (WMV) have been added as codecs that can be played under [Video.

You can now select [Type 3] under [Bitmapping] in [Settings] > [Music Settings].
Well, go get your update and throw away your converters. Crappy quality is no longer a friend of ours!

Also, I've tried out the following formats and they all work, DivX, AVI, WMV, and MPG all work. I've heard XVid works as well.

Update: I've found some hidden changes in firmware 2.10, they are minor, but add to the PLAYSTATION 3 performance.

Hidden Change #1: When you launch your browser, the background stays as your XMB background.

Hidden Change #2: Movie icon motions now work when they are categorized into folders.

Hidden Change #3: Space images were added to the music visual player.

Hidden Change #4: A commenter reports that you can now play PSone games on the PS3 HDD (and PSone games on disc) through remote play with your PSP.

16 comments:

Anonymous said...

1st!

Anonymous said...

Wat happend to the blu-ray 1.1 profile???

Anonymous said...

It's probably there. We will find out when Resident Evil comes out on Blu-Ray.

Anonymous said...

Could it play Xvid???

Anonymous said...

God, the new Visual Player is beautiful.

Anonymous said...

yo onAXIS, you said ps3 now has avi playback? i tried it and mine still shows unsupported data, did you have to enable nething to get it to work?

Anonymous said...

hey, nevermind, i have my ps3 set to be able to play files from two of my laptops.. it's just not working on one.. wonder why. maybe cause it's vista. my avi and divx works fine for the files on the other laptop though. sweet.

Anonymous said...

Hidden Update Alert!!!: Playing PS1 games saved to the PS3 HDD on the PSP via Remote Play

incredibilistic said...

WOW! I'll have to test these features out later today.

What about the commentator? When does that happen before you boot up a PSOne game?

Good to know that there's a new music visual scene. It's been a year Sony. We should've had several updates to this and the photo album slide shows.

Better late than never I guess.

Nick C. said...

You can now use Remote Play to access not only just PS1 downloaded games... but PSone original game discs! No joke. Check out more details:

http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/message?board.id=psnetwork&message.id=166903

This needs to get attention!

incredibilistic said...

I tried a few .AVI files and they still don't work. I don't have many. Most of the video files I have are Quicktime but the of the .AVI files I do have most everyone of them failed to play.

I don't know what codecs Sony put in this Divx update but I'm hoping they'll include more. With an online connection and HDD there's almost no excuse not to have the ability to download more codecs if a particular video doesn't play. And it doesn't have to be firmware update. Maybe just have it search for available codecs and then install them as you need 'em.

Anonymous said...

avi with ac3 audio is working with 5.1 output now! :D
Finally!

Anonymous said...

Where is the download link on the official website?

Anonymous said...

were can i download tha new firmware lookd evry wher cant seem 2 find it tryd tha offical website wont let me sum1 plzzzz help

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