**UPDATE** Heads up! PS3 Firmware v2.10 tomorrow, DivX, Profile v1.1 confirmed

Heads up! Sony UK has announced that the next PlayStation 3 firmware update could be coming in tomorrow, a month after the last version. FW Version 2.10 will have a couple of new features, including the new Voice Changer function, the announced DivX video support, picture-to-picture interactivity, and in-game chat. Read more in the full article!

Update: The Firmware update page seems to have been pulled out of the PlayStation UK website. More in the full article.

* Article originally posted Dec 17, 2007 at 09:59AM

 
 

Heads up! Sony UK has announced that the next PlayStation 3 firmware update could be coming in tomorrow, a month after the last version came out. Version 2.10 will have a couple of new features, including the new Voice Changer function and DivX support.

For this new firmware update, you’ll need 120 MB of free space on your unit. For now it seems we won’t see the system go BD-Live yet, but the system is going up to Blu-Ray Profile v1.1 allowing picture-in-picture interactivity for certain Blu-ray discs.

Also, according to the Blu-ray website, the new Voice Changer function will be able to support in-game chat. Hopefully this indicates progress towards in-game access to the XMB.

Here are the reported updates from the UK PlayStation site:

Voice Changer feature:

• You can change the tone of a voice that is input from an audio device such as a microphone. High and low-pitched tones can each be adjusted to five preset levels. You can vary the tone when using voice / video chat under Friends.

Music

• You can now select [Type 3] as an option under Settings > [Music Settings] > [Bitmapping]. This bitmapping process was developed specifically for the PS3 system to enhance audio playback.

Video

• DivX and VC-1 (WMV) have been added to the types of files that can be played.
• Blu-ray Disc Profile 1.1 is now supported.
• [BD Data Utility] has been added.

* Article originally posted Dec 17, 2007 at 09:59AM

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Update:

The page that made the firmware update announcement seems to have been been pulled out from the Sony UK website, as well as it’s corresponding entry on the Spanish Playstation website, so there is a possibility we won’t be able to see the firmware go live tomorrow.

The website said (before it was pulled down), that “an update to the PS3 system software was released on December 18, 2007.” The phrasing in the past-tense suggests that there might have been a slip up – as some people now assume, the page probably wasn’t meant to go up until the firmware update “was” made available.

We’ll have to wait for news from Sony to confirm what happened and what the status is with the firmware. Hopefully, the info stated in the update was accurate and was just posted prematurely. We’ll keep you posted on updates as soon as we get them.

Thanks to Mentality and YaMi_SeNsEi for bringing it to our attention!

Via UK PlayStation