PS3 2.50 firmware update hits North America (PSP 5.00 too)
By Paul Miller 
posted Oct 14th 2008 11:48PM
posted Oct 14th 2008 11:48PM
Update: PSP 5.00 is available now too.
[Thanks, Tony]
hell yeah, i'm downloading the update right now ^_^
Awesome!
Yes! I'm going to be up all night watching Family Guy on Hulu! And with Auto-Shutdown, can the PS3 recognize when I've dozed off and fallen asleep, thus automatically shutdown? Now that right there would be innovation!
Love the new auto-off function. Another thumbs up for Sony.
mmm This means I can start watching season 4 of How I Met Your Mother! Yays!
they finally added a feature that can automatically turn off your controller(s) when you're away from the ps3. that'll come in handy when i forget to disconnect it. :)
Damn,that was quick.
But I likely the quicky.
"Damn,that was quick."
That's what she said!
I'm sorry I couldn't resist!
Hulu Works! You can even zoom in to have the video fill the screen.
So, you're using the browser's zoom, and not hulu's fullscreen? Whenever I click hulu's fullscreen, something funky happens and I can only see a quarter of the video in the original video's panel.
Didn't work for me, either. Most of the time it wouldn't stream at all (with my 8Mbps connection, no probs on laptop). And the hulu "FullScreen" button (and the x720 one) both send it into quarter-sized video fits that can only be undone by refreshing the page. I'd love to see this work, though.
Thanks for letting us know...the message popped up that it was available, but I was playing Haze at the time and I thought it was just someone sending a message to me so I didn't update...but I'm doing it now :)
Fantastic, thanks so much for the update! :)
anyone notice the divx connected thing????
I meant Divx VOD in system settings
So when do I get the ability to play music while playing a game?
You already can, it depends on the game though.
I believe that this was included already in a previous update, however its up to the individual game developers to implement this into the game.
You already can :P
the ps3 web browser sucks i hope this makes it better
Awesome I paused my Office episodes to install the update. Looking forward to hulu and the rest of the internet.
flash 9 dumbbell.
Stop advertising the forums here -_-
Do us all a favor and drown.
anyone know if they solved .mp4 streaming issues?
Yaaa redtube here we come
Disgusting... good idea
I've found that downloading the system update is agonizingly slow when I download it off the PS3 directly. I want to download it from my laptop and then transfer...Where's the site for the download of 2.50? All I can find is 2.43 and I've already got that...HEEELP!!!
Dude power cycle ur junk. Restart ur computer pull out the power cords of from the backs of both the modem and router wait ten seconds and then put modems in power cord back in. Wait Ten seconds, then the router's, wait 30 seconds and then turn on Ps3, then computer. Downloads will be fast. Guaranteed. Heck If I can tell my friend how to do this and set up a dmz while driving then you know it will werk.
Side Note FLASH 9 Support fails on their own Blog, which they promised us that we could watch it once it went Live.
Can't win em all, eh?
OK I will try that but is there a site I can donload it from because the Sony site only has 2.43...
Seriously, I need to know where I can download this update from the web, Its been running this whole time and its done 37%
i wouldn't touch it unless its from there official site or on the network cause......
you never know *scary music in background*
Here's the direct link ;)
http://dus01.ps3.update.playstation.net/update/ps3/image/us/2008_1015_823ab63c96d570510b254a80755df446/PS3UPDAT.PUP
Awesome now you get to see when your friends last logged in to the PSN (woo hoo) I'm jumping for joy (yawn) i guess the only good thing i the Flash 9 update now I'll use my ps3 more often to watch vids.
Downloaded, working great. As far as I can tell, the .mp4 streaming issues have been solved.
Any why to have the browser stop prompting you to activate flash every new page?
This is so annoying.
Awesome! Downloading now!
hey guys does pandora work? downloading... ok its done please let me know
PSP 5.0 firmware update is up as well. Installing right now.
Tested some sites with Flash 9, can now watch Hulu, Zero Punctuation and TWiT Live, but all of the above have a lackluster framrate at least at 1080p.Haven't tested Youtube in fullscreen, since it was about 10fps video on 2.4x, but Hulu's fullscreen mode doesn't work at all.Pandora doesn't work at all.Overall nice to see I can watch some things I've wanted to use the PS3 for. This also places the PS3's built in browser ahead of any open-source flash implementations you'd get with Linux on the PS3, but it remains a huge disappointment until they can get the framerates up on flash video.
Sweet now I can watch Hulu via PSP.
The firmware is also go in Europe.
i just updated to 2.50 and all my videos are in black and white??????, but the mini preview in XMB is in color??? anyone know what to do to get the glorious new feature called color tv...
oh and im in the land of PAL(europe) if that have any meaning to the problem...
yep im having thew same problem.
it seems to be putting videos at 50hz . my divX files play in colour though.
Hey, can you get ANY flash video to go full screen? I can't get it to go full screen here. Neither on youtube or hulu or Vimeo videos.
BTW, for Vimeo, it works only when embedded in another page. The vimeo pages have some javascript that the PS3 browser doesn't support, but if you embed the video on another site with its simpler code, the Flash 9 works.
If this is old news, why do you need to bring people to your site to read the old news.
does anyone know the list of games that sre screenshot compatible
And my PSP is updating now too. :)
You can watch Joost too, very cool. Check it out - www.joost.com