Hi Guys, just wanted to give you some more detail on the main features of firmware 3.10 for your PS3. Hopefully you will have seen the American video previously posted that demos some of these features. If not check it out here.
As shown in the video and the screenshots below, the Photo view on the XMB has been improved. Your photos are now shown in a grid format rather than in one line to make it easier for you to skip straight to the photo you want or browse an album quickly.
We’ve added some links to the worlds most popular social network site, Facebook.
If you want to show your friends what trophies you’ve earned or brag about your gaming prowess, simply go to account management, under PSN, and turn this option on to share your triumphs with your friends
You can also share information about your PSN Store purchases if you want. Turn this on the same way and you will be asked each time you purchase from the store if you want to share it on Facebook or not. Let all your friends know what you’re playing and get them to join you online.
Television lovers in other parts of Europe can now enjoy faster access to catch-up on TV with the addition of the following on-demand TV sites to the XMB over the next few days–
RTVE, Antena 3 and LaSexta – Spain
NOS – Netherlands
AXN/Animax – Czech/Poland/Hungary/Bulgaria/Romania & Slovakia
No need to watch catch-up TV on your PC anymore, enjoy it in the comfort of your living room and on your big screen.
We are working on adding more of these as soon as we can
You will also see in the screenshot below, and the previous video post, that the next stage of the Friends list update is complete and, as you can see, only the profile that’s selected has the coloured box.
This brings us to the final part of the main updated features which is that you can now customize your PSN profile with your favourite colour. Just open up your profile and click X on the upper left tab to get the colour pallet and to choose your colour.
This is the colour that your profile will appear as on all your friends PS3’s.
Hope you like the new features and we will let you know about the next update as soon as we can
Cheers
James
Update: Hi Guys, just wanted to clarify a couple of things regarding the catch up TV icons for the XMB
There seems to have been some confusion that these might be access to the live TV stations but they are not. They are quick links to the broadcasters ‘catch-up’ TV sites that have been optimised for the PS3 browser and TV screen viewing. (programmes that have previously been broadcast live.)
Also I have been informed that Animax is not available in Poland and Bulgaria, as previously stated
Poland AXN
Czech AXN and Animax
Slovakia AXN and Animax
Hungary AXN and Animax
Romania AXN and Animax
Bulgaria AXN




















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Posted on 20 November, 2009 at 4:47 am by monoliet
aigain on 19/11/09 morning sync trophies ok evening = no sync .
problem = huge ? do you have solution soon ?????
= very frustating !!!!
many friends also sync problem !!!!
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Posted on 20 November, 2009 at 10:28 am by raxton
hi when i go to system update it says i have the latest version of the software however i am on 3.01
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Posted on 20 November, 2009 at 10:58 am by yostane
Thanks for the update, the browser is getting better. Hope to see a tv icon on the xmb in france.
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Posted on 20 November, 2009 at 1:38 pm by Malsa01
Since updating last night the TV menu (and BBC iPlayer) have gone missing from my XMB. Why is this?!?
Also, will you be improving the navigation of music on the XMB? I have all my music on there but never use it as I can’t search or arrange in an easy way. For example, how about Artist and then Album instead of Artist and then all the songs by them? It’s a real pain.
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Posted on 20 November, 2009 at 2:13 pm by outlyer
You should have some stricter requirements for catch-up TV. I don’t know how it is is other countries but now we’ve got it here it’s… disappointing.
LaSexta has only choppy, pixelated videos (despite having 720p on their normal site); and neither channel can be really used with the BD Remote.
Asking channels for a minimum quality and usability levels would make a lot of sense IMHO.
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Posted on 20 November, 2009 at 2:19 pm by outlyer
(Grrr, can’t edit)
Also, the using the same URL on the PC (in the case of laSexta) gets me a much smoother playback.
Disappointing indeed.
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Posted on 21 November, 2009 at 5:35 pm by HasselB_187
Could You Please make a XChat that i can talk with friends even we aren’t playing the same game? That would be awsome. Also that i can connect my PS3 with my Twitter account. I don’t habe Faceook because it isn’t popular in Germany. Here we got StudiVZ an MeinVZ wich is similar like Facebook
. But the XChat for the next Update and Twitter that would be cery cool
.
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Posted on 21 November, 2009 at 8:26 pm by quadpus
Same problem here with the NOS video service, furhtermore the picture is only visible for the upper half (till half the play button), and I can’t even scroll to the lower part. What’s going on???
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Posted on 21 November, 2009 at 9:15 pm by HEADSTAR
i use the browser evry day an you have kicked it back a year or some
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Posted on 21 November, 2009 at 9:29 pm by Licence
Is it just me or has anyone else in the UK had the TV section on the xmb disapear, before the update the bbc iplayer was there now the whole column is gone
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Posted on 21 November, 2009 at 9:48 pm by vladimirimp
I’ve got a big problem at home with the Facebook functionality. My wife has a sub-account and for some reason this means she can’t use the Facebook functionality. She’s acquired loads of trophies and is a massive Facebook user – much more than me. It makes no sense why she should not be allowed the same rights. Is this a bug? If not, is there a way that I can upgrade her account to a master account?
It’s simply not acceptable to say that she has to create a new account and start the process of earning a year’s worth of trophies again. If this had been made plain when we created the accounts then we’d never have done this. I’m getting serious earache about this right now – please fix this!
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Posted on 22 November, 2009 at 12:22 am by born06
Hey James, when you’re talking to NZ office, could you confirm that NZ Orcon customers can access TVNZ on demand as part of the O zone(ie downloading files won’t count as part of our monthly data allowance). This is currently a feature when using the on demand feature from your PC for Orcon customers. If true this could be something TVNZ, Sony and Orcon could sell as another great feature of the PS3 etc. Cheers, Tim.
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Posted on 22 November, 2009 at 10:34 pm by monoliet
update = cool , but trophie sucs huge !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
syncing = not working . 9/10 = code :80022a07 .
are you working one huge problem ???? 22 friends have same problem.
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Posted on 22 November, 2009 at 10:35 pm by monoliet
reply ???????????????????? any bady home ?????????
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Posted on 22 November, 2009 at 11:56 pm by LEBNANI
How about in the next update we can also update our facebook status and view our facebook photos and friends photos and info via widget in the xmb… My friend has an Xbox and yesterday I saw that they can do that and it was pretty sick… same with twitter. 1- it will promote ps3 even more and 2- it will become a trending topic on twitter everyday
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Posted on 23 November, 2009 at 1:06 am by randellaUK
Any chance on a future update to have watching a video under our status or showing exactly what we watching aka a PSN video download of say Hangover or a blu ray The Dark Knight little things like this would be cool
,maybe a loyalty for amount of PSN downloads or redemption from blu rays bought?
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Posted on 24 November, 2009 at 12:30 am by Ace_R1mm3rr
i have a ps3 and 360 facebook on the 360 sucks big time but atleAst it works… i dont care how the xbm looks or operates i just want to browse without hassle…. wats up wiv not being able to post comments or status on facebook at the moment…. and if we cant comment on it wats the point in having the browser… im sticking to my laptop for internet 360 for games and ive got a bluray player so tell me wat the point is in a ps3 if it doesnt do wwat is stated and expected… go on i dare u to answer james… p.s. sorry this is a sloppy message with poor grammer and punctuation but im doing it on a ps3 keypad, god awful creation, 360 pad is much better……..
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Posted on 24 November, 2009 at 12:36 pm by horizonevent
Well since updating (and reading alot of post here) seems to be a problem with the TVicon (BBC iplayer) just disapearing, after a restart or two it come back but thought that was strange.
Also i see that finally PS3 owners have now facebook on the PS3 for trophies and all types of info etc, but one thing though… does it work!!??
I’ve recently gained more trophies but have not seen not one piece of information on my facebook, nothing!!
I’ve set it up for it to publish my trophies that i receive but after receiving nearly 7 trophies i looked at my facebook and all i saw was “NOTHING”!! Not sure why we have that option on the PS3 if it doesn’t even work… or does it!! GREMLINS i tell ya!!
Anyway i’m not even sure if this will even get read or replied to but thought of adding my comments regarding the new features of the firmware anyways.
Oh if anyone has any information on how this facebook thing work please let me know as i think i’ll get a quicker response by the PS3 user community than Sony or James.
Thanks
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Posted on 24 November, 2009 at 1:32 pm by Re-versed
The what’s new section in the XMB has designed, apart from other functions,as a link to the eu ps blog…ok??? After the 3.10 firmware update,i use these links to watch the blog with the flash player of the console’s browser not supporting the previously supported videos not only on this site but to a big amount of sites that i used to visit!!!If the what’s new section created to that purpose i find just unprofessional and pointless that the official PS blogs(include US one)are sites not friendly to ps3 ’s browser!! please fix that previously working just fine function… thanks
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Posted on 26 November, 2009 at 9:27 am by mikeread275
Only one problem with this update, only the main account holder can access the Facebook sync. We have 6 users on our playstation with Facebook Accounts, how can we sync our accounts has we are the main users???.
Cheers
mikeread275@hotmail.com
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Posted on 27 November, 2009 at 5:41 pm by Fahad_-X
it would be realy good if you could give more colours
an more avatars
if u did what xbox did with the avatars it would be really cool
i realy want to customize my ps3 alot.
in addition i would love it if we could play ps2 games
& finally if we got to acess facebook & music while we was playing games that would be another cool thing to
hu agrees?
please try to have this for us in the next update it would be much appreciated thanks
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Posted on 27 November, 2009 at 7:01 pm by rockstar700
why doesn’t the United States have ‘tv’ on there playstation 3 ?
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Posted on 29 November, 2009 at 12:20 pm by Fahad_-X
a reply would’ve been nice
i understand you people are busy but you need to fulfill our wishes for the playstation 3
it seems that xbox has a lot of things playstation does not
have. if u could do al of the things above, it would be really cool
an i would be very proud if i got a reply a.s.a.p
thanks
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Posted on 30 November, 2009 at 3:09 am by Kansaspwnage
Facebook still doesn’t let me comment
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Posted on 30 November, 2009 at 6:32 am by simric98
Any news on when we will be able to have a voice chat without havingto be in the caht app or playing a game? I also have an xbox 360 and I can do it on there.. Love the ABC iVIEW on the XBM by the way.. Also boutght the playtv today, cand wait to go home and hook it up
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Posted on 1 December, 2009 at 7:22 pm by SPYKE81v
i have no facebook icon showing up,how do i fix it?
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Posted on 4 December, 2009 at 4:59 pm by lfcx5
i just got a refurbished ps3 as my old one got the YLoD, its a 60 GB model and when i signed in to PSN i had to do the update, version 3.10, no problems so far, until i noticed that the tv icon wasn’t present on my xmb, is there anything i can do to sort this cos I used the BBCiplayer quite often on my old system.
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Posted on 8 December, 2009 at 2:21 pm by AndreNewman
Please please please can we have an off switch setting for the annoying fadey outey titles in the media browser.
Media player is a bit more stable in 3.10, keep up the good work, you are getting loads of crash reports from me though, hope they help…..
24p playback from stored media would be great when you get a moment, even better if it can reverse telecine from a 3:2 pulldown US TV prog and output nice clean 24p
one day……
PS3 is the best quality media player out there, it could be so much better with a few little tweaks, you know you want to…
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