Monday, December 17, 2007

PLAYSTATION 3 Firmware 2.01 Coming Tomorrow: Includes DivX

Sony has just announced a new update coming our way, bringing one of the things we've all been waiting for (no, not in-game XMB), DivX support! Not just that though, also WMV support, and Blu-Ray Disc 1.1 support as well! The new firmware is firmware version 2.10. The features below.

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.

Music
- You can now select [Type 3] as an option under Settings > [Music Settings] > [Bitmapping]. This bitmapping process was developed specifically for the PS3TM system to enhance audio playback.

Video
- DivX and VC-1 (WMV) have been added to the types of files that can be played. *
- Blu-ray Disc Profile 1.1 is now supported. **
- [BD Data Utility] has been added. ***

* 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.
Throw away all your quality reducing video converters, because this update hits tomorrow, December 18, 2007.

[Via NeoGAF]

1 comments:

incredibilistic said...

I'm still waiting for Quicktime support.

I can understand not supporting M4P files but come on, Quicktime is as much a standard of playing media files as Windows Media Player is. Obviously, Quicktime is better and yet the PS3 supports WMV files.

Why?

Here's a thought: team up with Apple for the PS4 and then add a third person to the "Hi, I'm a Mac. Hi, I'm a PC" commercials. The PS4 can be a smokin' hot chick wearing nothing but PSEye's camera lenses as pasties and the Dual Shock 4 as a thong.