| Registered: March 17, 2007 |  Posts: 82 |
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Sony has announced today that a new firmware update will arrive for the PS3 later this month. Version 2.20 will add support for Blu-Ray Live (profile 2.0) features such as the ability to download extra content like bonus scenes, ringtones and subtitles. Blu-Ray Live also allows interactive movie-based games to communicate over the internet -- effectively adding online multiplayer support. Other features found in firmware v2.20 include:
* "Resume play" will enable PS3 to start playing a BD and DVD video at the point it was stopped, even if the disc had been removed. (BD-J format discs are not supported)
* "Audio Output Device" will be a new Remote Play setting, enabling PSP to serve as a remote control for music played through PS3.
* PS3's Internet browser will be enhanced: Video files directly linked from a Web page will be able to be streamed, and the browser's view speed will be improved.
* DivX and WMV format videos that are larger than 2GB will be playable.
* "Mosquito Noise Reduction" will be added as an AV setting in the control panel of the DVD/BD player for improved movie playback. (BD discs recorded with BDMV format are not supported)
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 3,830 |
| | Posted: | | | | (Dutch) Sony geeft PS3 interactieve blu-ray-functies Door Tom Rosens, donderdag 20 maart 2008 14:23 Sony voorziet de Playstation 3 van interactieve blu-ray-functies. Onder de naam Blu-ray Disc Live rolt de fabrikant eind maart de BD Profile 2.0-update uit. Hiermee wordt het onder meer mogelijk om bonusscenes, ringtones en spelletjes van de te kijken film te downloaden. | | | | Sources for one or more of the changes and/or additions were not submitted. Please include the sources for your changes in the contribution notes, especially for cast and crew additions. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 3,321 |
| | Posted: | | | | Getting Blu-ray Live will be nice. I have at least one title (Saw IV) that is a 2.0 disc.
But to be perfectly honest, it's the Resume Play feature that I find most appealing! I would have gone another 6 months without 2.0 support for this feature. It's a pain having to go through the opening crap on TV DVDs over and over and over. It will be great to put the disc in and go straight to the main menu! I just hope it remembers more than the most recent disc. At least the last 10 would be nice.
The resume feature on BD discs sounds good too. But since it doesn't support BD-J discs, I don't think it's going to be all that useful as time goes on and more and more discs are BD-J. Hopefully they'll build in their own resume functions on those. | | | Get the CSVExport and Database Query plug-ins here.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 1,911 |
| | Posted: | | | | From Hollywood in Highdef: Quote:
BD-Live Goes Live This Month Via PS3
It appears the complete and long-promised full-featured Blu-ray future will be here within a couple weeks as Sony once again uses its PlayStation3 to lead the way in Blu-ray.
The company today announced that the PS3 system 2.2 software update later this month will make the system fully compliant with the BD-Live (2.0) Web-connected/interactive capabilities planned from the beginning for Blu-ray. (see release below).
The update is timed to allow consumers to immediately take advantage of the first new titles offering BD-Live features, including Lionsgate's "Saw IV" (released in January) and Sony's April 8 release of "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story" and "The 6th Day," featuring exclusive downloadable extra content.
Fox's first BD-Live title featuring a multiplayer online game, "Alien vs. Predator vs. You" will be released this fall, the same season as Disney's first BD-Live title, "Sleeping Beauty Platinum Edition." Fox's April 15 release of "Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem" offers a picture-in-picture reference guide that takes advantage of the recent Blu-ray BonusView (1.1 Profile) upgrade.
Coupled with Sony's previously announced upcoming stand-alone players, the BDP-S350 coming this summer for $399, which will be updatable to handle BD-Live, and the BDP-S550, which will ship this fall with BD-Live built-in for $499 (see "Inside Track" Q&A with Sony Electronics' spokesperson Greg Belloni posted today, March 20), this news confirms that Sony and the Blu-ray camp are moving forward aggressively to deliver the most robust products that Blu-ray can offer as quickly as possible.
Here's today's entire official release:
FOSTER CITY, Calif., March 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) today announced that the next system software update for PLAYSTATION(R)3 (PS3(TM)) computer entertainment system, slated for release in late March, will add Blu-ray Disc(TM) (BD) Profile 2.0 or BD-LIVE, enabling PS3 owners to experience interactive features, such as downloadable video content, ringtones, games, and more. In addition to BD-LIVE, the system software update (v. 2.20) will enable photo and music playlists on PS3 to be copied to PSP(R)(PlayStation(R)Portable) handheld entertainment system, among other new features. These updates demonstrate how PS3 continues to evolve as a home entertainment hub with the flexibility to deliver the newest technology
innovations that benefit PS3 owners.
"With Blu-ray established as the high-definition optical disc standard, more consumers are ready to jump in and take advantage of everything the format offers," said Scott A. Steinberg, vice president, product marketing, SCEA. "Whether you want to download movie extras, send ringtones to your phone, or play interactive games, BD-LIVE will offer exciting new ways to enjoy a Blu-ray movie. With these regular firmware updates and future-proofed technology, SCEA is making the 10-year lifecycle of PS3 possible."
BD Profile 2.0 requires an Internet connection and at least 1GB of local storage. The following features have all been demonstrated as possibilities with BD-Live and will vary by movie title.
-- A variety of downloadable content can be offered, including bonus
scenes, shorts, trailers, subtitles, ringtones that can be sent to
mobile phones, images, and more.
-- Interactive movie-based games can pit players who are sitting in the
same room, or are across the world and online, against each other.
In conjunction with the PS3 firmware update, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) is pleased to announce two BD-LIVE enabled titles to be released on April 8 - Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story and The 6th Day. Both titles will include exclusive downloadable content that goes beyond what is available on the actual Blu-ray discs. These initial releases preview some of the exciting new developments that will soon be available from BD-LIVE on Blu-ray disc.
Beyond BD-LIVE, the new system software update enhances PS3 system's interoperability with PSP system, enabling users to take their favorite music and photo playlists with them on-the-go with their PSP. To copy a playlist, PSP and PS3 must first be connected with a USB cable, and the PSP must be in USB mode. Then, on PS3, select "Copy" in the option menu of each music or photo playlist, and choose PSP as the destination. Now the playlist order, and the songs or photos themselves, will be accessible on the PSP's Memory Stick PRO Duo anytime, anywhere. This new functionality makes it easer than ever to share media content between the two systems.
The following new features will also be included in the system software update.
-- "Resume play" will enable PS3 system to start playing a Blu-ray disc
and DVD at the point it was stopped, even if the disc had been
removed.(*1)
-- "Audio Output Device" will be a new Remote Play setting, enabling PSP
to serve as a remote control for music played through PS3.
-- PS3 system's Internet browser will be enhanced: Video files directly
linked from a Web page will be able to be streamed, and the browser's
view speed will be improved.
-- DivX and WMV format videos that are larger than 2GB will be playable.
-- "Mosquito Noise Reduction" will be added as an AV setting in the
control panel of the DVD/BD player for improved movie playback.(*2)
*1 BD-J format disc is not supported.
*2 BD discs recorded with BDMV format are not supported. | | | | Signature banned: Reason out of date... |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,911 |
| | Posted: | | | | From the PS3 blog (just a few more details on a few of the features) Quote:
Here are some of the other new features/enhancements that will be included in Firmware v2.20:
The ability to copy PS3 Music and Photo playlists to a PSP system. We introduced the ability to create Music and Photo playlists on the PS3 in firmware update v2.0. Now you can easily export your playlists to your PSP.
You can now play DivX and WMV format files that are over 2 GB. In addition, you can now display subtitles when viewing DivX files.
Resume Play - begin playing a DVD or BD disc from the point where you previously stopped it, even if you eject the disc and insert a different movie or game.
Use your PSP as a remote control to play back your music files on your PS3 without turning on your TV.
The Internet browser now displays some web pages faster. In addition [Save Target] has been added as an option under file. This option lets you save a file that is linked to a web page to your PS3 hard drive or storage media.
There are a few other tweaks and upgrades included in v2.20 - we’ll provide more specifics as the update is about to go live. | | | | Signature banned: Reason out of date... |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,911 |
| | Posted: | | | | This went live last night.
PS3 is now BD Live compliant. | | | | Signature banned: Reason out of date... |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 |  Posts: 223 |
| | Posted: | | | | ...and for anyone having trouble playing divx files, you may want to see if this update helps.
Before the update, only approximately 25% of my files would play. Now....100%!
(and all of these files are well under the 2 gig limit mentioned in the release notes) |
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