PS3 Firmware v2.20 says it's time to break out the popcorn!

Written by Jim Squires

Thursday, 20 March 2008 03:18

Sony knows a larger percentage of PS3 owners are in it for the blu-ray and the blu-ray alone - games are an afterthought for a lot folks out there. That's why firmware 2.20 is all about the movies.

Only a partial list of updates included in 2.20 have been announced. Here's what we know so far, straight from the horse's mouth;

Most notably, the update enables the PS3 to support Blu-ray Disc Profile 2.0, also known as BD-Live. You can connect now to the Internet while playing discs that support BD-Live to obtain additional content and special features. These features vary from disc to disc, and will keep your BD discs fresh with new content and in some cases exclusive content only accessible to owners of BD-Live enabled discs. On April 8th Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will release The 6th Day and Walk Hard on Blu-ray; these titles will be among the first to take advantage of BD-Live. With this update, the PLAYSTATION 3 becomes the first Blu-ray player on the market with BD-Live functionality.

Hit the jump for the rest of the juicy details;

* 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.
* 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.

All in all, this is shaping up to be a pretty significant update. There's no specific date on when this one is going to hit, but considering it's officially announced, it shouldn't be much longer.

I couldn't be more excited about Resume Play. Joy!

[via PlayStation.Blog]

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