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DVDBack23 @ Apr 02, 2009 15:33 | 13 comments

According to their latest official blog post, Sony's upcoming PlayStation 3 firmware upgrade, version 2.70, will add a few interesting new features, most notably Text Chat that will allow users to have a chat room with up to 15 other PSN users using any keyboard peripheral or the on-screen keyboard. Sony says you can be a participant in up to three chats at one time, and even use it in-game.

Additionally, the post says the following features will be added:

Friends list on the XMB (XrossMediaBar)

* Sort your friends via their online status

* Attach larger files to the messages you send to your friends (file size will increase from 1MB to 3MB)

Video delivery service on PlayStation Store

* Video files you’ve purchased from the PlayStation Store can be backed up to an external storage device and then restored to PS3’s internal hard drive for playback – so you can clear up space on your hard drive and then restore the video anytime in the future

* Videos you’ve purchased for PSP (PlayStation Portable) system can now be transferred to PS3 for playback

A video, from the console maker, showing off the upgrade:

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Comments

Comment by: jookycola (Apr 02, 2009 16:06)

Meh, kind of a snoozer of an update. But it was pretty cool of them to let us off load the movies to other storage. Now i may actually buy movies from the store now.

Comment by: wrules (Apr 02, 2009 17:11)

now its easier to copy a downloaded film from your ps3 to a pc, nice.

Comment by: emugamer (Apr 02, 2009 18:04)

Yes, but how is the video file "backed up"? Would it even be playable on a PC? Or is it in some encrypted proprietory format that only the PS3 can read? Like when you do a backup of the HDD.

Comment by: ZippyDSM (Apr 02, 2009 18:55)

Do we haz BWC yet?

Comment by: beanos66 (Apr 02, 2009 21:48)

Originally posted by ZippyDSM:
Do we haz BWC yet?

not for as long as they keep charging for ps3 versions of ps2 games

Comment by: Hunt720 (Apr 03, 2009 00:34)

Has anyone looked at how the video files look/encrypt when you back it up?? This might lead to us being able to save copies for playback on whatever device we chose ... I mean f##k DRM we paid for it. I'm not going to be the EULA's bitch if I don't have to be.

Comment by: canuckerz (Apr 03, 2009 05:41)

Was hoping you could use the textchat on the fly ingame without having to go throught he xmb, but I guess not.

Comment by: arcanix (Apr 03, 2009 09:28)

Comment by: ZippyDSM (Apr 03, 2009 09:31)

Originally posted by arcanix:

LOL
The more we change the more backwards we become!
:P

Comment by: emugamer (Apr 03, 2009 10:16)

Quote:
Originally posted by arcanix:

LOL
The more we change the more backwards we become!
:P

We may get smoke signals before BWC Zip :P

Comment by: ZippyDSM (Apr 03, 2009 10:23)

Quote:
Quote:
Originally posted by arcanix:

LOL
The more we change the more backwards we become!
:P
We may get smoke signals before BWC Zip :P

No that's the 360, for the PS3 we'll have to buy the old games through PSN >>

Comment by: eljay (Apr 10, 2009 13:17)

Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Originally posted by arcanix:

LOL
The more we change the more backwards we become!
:P
We may get smoke signals before BWC Zip :P

No that's the 360, for the PS3 we'll have to buy the old games through PSN >>

Hey, this is fun! Let's see how many copies of that comic strip we can generate by repeated quotings ;-)

Comment by: Oner (Apr 10, 2009 14:42)

Um how about No.

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