Tue, Dec 02, 2008 | 06:08 GMT

PS3 Firmware 2.53 available now

Sony’s released Firmware 2.53 for PS3: we’re downloading as we type.

The update caused a bit of a kerfuffle last week with what appears to have been an erroneous post from SCEA and some good old gun-jumping from the internet, but it’s there now. So relax.

The software gives full-screen Flash support to your machine, and “Live movie (using RTMP format) playability,” according to this US PS Blog post.

7 comments

Rhythm
02/12/08, 6:12 am

Just downloaded and installed. Can’t see any major improvements.

Dunno if it’s coincidence but it appears BBC have updated the iPlayer site to work with PS3. Going to bbc.co.uk/iplayer with the browser redirects you to bbc.co.uk/iplayer/bigscreen, which works very well with the PS3 and even allows access to the full Listen Again library

morriss
02/12/08, 7:04 am

I wish iPlayer was a Europe-wide service. I totally understand why it isn’t, I just wish it was.

patlike
02/12/08, 8:21 am

I just had a waz on iPlayer on my PS3. It works, and everything.

morriss
02/12/08, 8:28 am

wickedman
02/12/08, 3:12 pm

I can’t complain, but I also can’t bring myself to care. Seriously, if web-browsing on my PS3 was that important to me, I would just install Linux on the darn thing.

morriss
02/12/08, 3:45 pm

Every litle helps!

Jmek
02/12/08, 6:26 pm

Just installed it and TBH I can’t see any difference at all. No full screen and most youtube clips are refusing to play apart from the sound you just get a black screen?