Comments on: PS3 Firmware (v2.80) Update

By: winstano

winstano — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:52:36 +0000

Hey guys, a bit of a late comment to this, but you should be able to see it…

For some reason, FW2.80 has locked the input volume of the official headset at level 3. Is there any way to sort this out? Because I’ve just bought one, and it’s picking up absolutely EVERYTHING in my room, even button presses on my DS3! Obviously not the best thing to have when gaming, as everyone will get an echo of what’s coming out of my telly…

Any official word would be really good to hear, as I’ve been fobbed off twice on the phone now…

By: DMMc59

DMMc59 — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:51:35 +0000

Not meaning to be a Sony hater in any form but 2.8 has caused the system to stop “seeing” ANY disc put in the player. Data, game, CD, DVD. No mater what it just doesn’t see it.
I would have thought coincidence, that the player died at same time but I am finding TOO many others out there with exact same issue and all related to the install of this latest 2.8

Nothing else seems to be affected just the disc players ability to do anything.
Does ANYONE have a solution or hopes of one anytime soon?

What is perturbing tho is that this appears to have been reported within hour of 2.8 release and here now 3 weeks later it’s still being offered with no caveat.

By: Amphlett

Amphlett — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:39:36 +0000

Quite well down on the list of requests from most people but please can you make the Content Level for games open for amendment once I’ve downloaded a game? The reason I ask is that whilst the preimplemented levels for each game are quite good I would like to customize it so that I can can decide what my 4 year old son sees and plays.

For instance, I’ve implemented the Parental Lock at about level 7 which restricts Battlefield 1943 and similar games but WORMS, which is level 3, is not restricted. WORMS, whilst cartoonish in nature contains quite a few language highlights which I’d prefer my son not to hear and think it OK to repeat.

How would this change be implemented?
I download a game and note its current Content Level. Have a quick blast on it myself and if it’s unsuitable I should be able to press triangle over the game to bring up the Information (where I can already edit the Folder name). I would like to be able to edit the Content Level to bring the game up to level 7. When I try to edit the Content Level I’m asked to enter the Parental Lock password. When entered correctly I can edit the Content Level (entering the password for successive edits).

By: Snake_192

Snake_192 — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:54:07 +0000

PLEASE Chat Voice Online!!!.

Thanks.

By: se1987

se1987 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:53:51 +0000

Hello to everyone! very nice the new updated firmware. I wish to know if u can release a firmware who allows to erase the trophies games on list?? its really important to me and many other people.

By: playstion3man

playstion3man — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:48:05 +0000

read this: http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/message?board.id=ps3updates&thread.id=76090

and update the web browser please! common the other systems handheld console that has less power then the ps1 has a better web browser then you! come on!

Doesn’t this motivate you to try and do better? PLEASE support your fans/customers and get a wriggle on.

By: junaid187

junaid187 — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:58:50 +0000

i also agree with the ps3 browser not being as good as the dsi !!! sony please do something about it ? you know we got love for you right?

By: OneTwo_

OneTwo_ — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:31:38 +0000

I dont mind these small updates “every little helps” But could you please add a list on the ps3 while updating that tells us what is being improved. Thx

By: zyxses

zyxses — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:18:46 +0000

Please, please, please, PLEASE upgrade the browser?
My Nintendo DSi has better website compatibility! The PS3 browser is CONSTANTLY freezing, many websites don’t work properly; YouTube – mail/settings, Yahoo, etc etc!

The main problem seems to be accidental L2/R2 input of scrolling when a page is loading causing a freeze. Of-cours it often freezes all by itself. I’m sure it can’t manage plug-ins etc properly and just crashes?

It needs a major update! I suggest SONY spend some time searching their Official Forum websites ( which ALSO don’t work properly with the PS3 browser ) and see just how many threads there are complaining about the browser.

I know the PS3 is crippled by not having adequate memory, but if my DSi can work with a website SURELY the PS3 browser should? Shouldn’t it???

By: Dannehkins

Dannehkins — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:55:51 +0000

It was a good update. It might not of brought more bread to the table but it certainly lead to improvements on the console. It’s always welcoming to know that an update is increasing the performance of something.

I can comprehend that it may be frustrating for some people who would preferably like to know the full workings of the update and what exactly it did. However, if they were testing something significantly big or laying down the foundations, then surely you would rather be a surprise when it comes rather than knowing it already without any real knowledge of what it is.

By: HideoYojima

HideoYojima — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 01:08:57 +0000

thanks for the great updates!

By: PlayNorbi

PlayNorbi — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:12:07 +0000

I would be grateful for the mkv supporting!
If it matters,I even pay for it!

By: junaid187

junaid187 — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:44:18 +0000

oh and sony (even tough im 99% likely to be ignored) i was wandering if you had any plans of improving the web browser on the ps3? iv always wanted to play runescape on my ps3 but it doesn’t support java . is their any chance that we will see firefox or java incorporated weeb browsers on the ps3? to be completely honest i baught the ps3 because it said its like a pc on many websites but nah i cant even play runescape.

i hope you do decide to put java in the web browser soon as you alredy use it on the blueray and sun java has partnered with you on that.

By: junaid187

junaid187 — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:34:41 +0000

hey guys stop hating on sony! (i plan to work for them in the future lol) anyway if you put a little common sence into this then its clear that this was quite a big update, but sony are not revealing what they put in this update probably because they dont want their competators *cough*micro*cough*soft*cough* stealing ideas. sereously why dont you get it? its a big update and they are keeping the cards close to their chest, if its something like a cure to the ylod microsoft may use the idea to cure the rrod or something? i personally like these little undercover updates so atleast i know microsoft or nintendo wont be shady and steal the ideas. but sony we want more mini updates i seem to like finding little improvments on my ps3 after each update .

one love and god bless

By: EncodedFun

EncodedFun — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:32:35 +0000

Hi…!
As i can read in the first post then it is just a small update, witch is fine by me, but as you guys write “The playback quality of some PLAYSTATION 3 software has been improved”, but could you tell us witch titles it is..?

And as many other of the users in this blog, i would also like to see some more details on the updates you guys release. This would be greatly valued.

Finally, because i cant help myself, im gonne post a little list of things i would like to see in a update.

- Being able to delete “default internet favorites” from the browser.
- Being able to delete new features/icons from the XMB, that you give us in the FW updates; like the new fotoalbum feature, News ticker and so on, so you can keep the clutter of icons (you dont use)down to a minimum.
- PC like strukture on the music files/mp3 when you transfer the files to the PS3 system, beacuse when i copy the files back to a PC, then the filenames have been changed, witch meens that i have to re-name all the files again, by hand.
- New avatars.
- Remote Play feature for the iPhone, just like the new Sony/ericson phone.

I have many more things i would like to see but lets start with these.

By: DestroyMachine

DestroyMachine — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:16:59 +0000

Also, can you tell us how big the update is?

By: DestroyMachine

DestroyMachine — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:13:20 +0000

I appreciate these updates, but would appreciate them even more if you told us what games have improved playback.

Also, put me down on the list voting for the clock/controller battery level issue to be fixed (!)

By: aser56uil

aser56uil — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:25:01 +0000

As far as I can observer after this upgrade the PS3 Browser correctly displays Romanian characters, at least in the UTF-8 encoded sites

By: LordOfRuin

LordOfRuin — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:42:45 +0000

If I had a say, I’d like to have the option to play a video file, and nominate some music to play instead of it’s audio track. So, say I had a visually stunning vid, and some sweet ass tunes, bang them together with some friends and, erm, beer, and you’d have some nice background images to your tunes. As it is, I have to use another audio source to do this at the moment.

Further more, I’d like some MilkDrop2 style music visualisations (Mmm, perhaps the above video playback could be rolled into the music visualisations area?).

Maybe an animated backdrop on the XMB would be good too. Shall I wish for the ability to animate the XMB icons too?

By: AWFuessen

AWFuessen — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:12:57 +0000

I don´t understand why a lot of you guys are complaining.
I think that it´s good to know that Sony´s doing Steps forward with our System. You´re not forced to look how the percentage counter will increase during an update.
Any improvement is welcome, hopefully a few of the ones named above.
For me it is definetely an improvement if the Trophy synchronisaton will go faster. A little one, but an improvement.