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Sony PlayStation 3 updated to firmware version 2.70

According to their latest official blog post, Sony's upcoming PlayStation 3 firmware upgrade, version 2.70, will add a few interesting new features, most notably Text Chat that will allow users to have a chat room with up to 15 other PSN users using any keyboard peripheral or the on-screen keyboard. Sony says you can be a participant in up to three chats at one time, and even use it in-game.

Additionally, the post says the following features will be added:



Friends list on the XMB (XrossMediaBar)

* Sort your friends via their online status
* Attach larger files to the messages you send to your friends (file size will increase from 1MB to 3MB)

Video delivery service on PlayStation Store

* Video files you’ve purchased from the PlayStation Store can be backed up to an external storage device and then restored to PS3’s internal hard drive for playback – so you can clear up space on your hard drive and then restore the video anytime in the future
* Videos you’ve purchased for PSP (PlayStation Portable) system can now be transferred to PS3 for playback

A video, from the console maker, showing off the upgrade:



Written by: Andre Yoskowitz @ 2 Apr 2009 11:33

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• jookycola

  Meh, kind of a snoozer of an update. But it was pretty cool of them to let us off load the movies to other storage. Now i may actually buy movies from the store now.

  2.4.2009 12:06 #1

• wrules

  now its easier to copy a downloaded film from your ps3 to a pc, nice.

  2.4.2009 13:11 #2

• emugamer

  Yes, but how is the video file "backed up"? Would it even be playable on a PC? Or is it in some encrypted proprietory format that only the PS3 can read? Like when you do a backup of the HDD.

  2.4.2009 14:04 #3

• ZippyDSM

  Do we haz BWC yet?

  2.4.2009 14:55 #4

• beanos66

  Originally posted by ZippyDSM: Do we haz BWC yet?not for as long as they keep charging for ps3 versions of ps2 games

  2.4.2009 17:48 #5

• Hunt720

  Has anyone looked at how the video files look/encrypt when you back it up?? This might lead to us being able to save copies for playback on whatever device we chose ... I mean f##k DRM we paid for it. I'm not going to be the EULA's bitch if I don't have to be.

  2.4.2009 20:34 #6

• canuckerz

  Was hoping you could use the textchat on the fly ingame without having to go throught he xmb, but I guess not.

  3.4.2009 01:41 #7

• arcanix

  
  

  3.4.2009 05:28 #8

• ZippyDSM

  Originally posted by arcanix:
  LOL
  The more we change the more backwards we become!
  :P

  3.4.2009 05:31 #9

• emugamer

  Quote:Originally posted by arcanix:
  LOL
  The more we change the more backwards we become!
  :PWe may get smoke signals before BWC Zip :P

  3.4.2009 06:16 #10

• ZippyDSM

  Quote:Quote:Originally posted by arcanix:
  LOL
  The more we change the more backwards we become!
  :PWe may get smoke signals before BWC Zip :P
  No that's the 360, for the PS3 we'll have to buy the old games through PSN >>

  3.4.2009 06:23 #11

• eljay

  Quote:Quote:Quote:Originally posted by arcanix:
  LOL
  The more we change the more backwards we become!
  :PWe may get smoke signals before BWC Zip :P
  No that's the 360, for the PS3 we'll have to buy the old games through PSN >>Hey, this is fun! Let's see how many copies of that comic strip we can generate by repeated quotings ;-)

  10.4.2009 09:17 #12

• Oner

  Um how about No.
  

  
  
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