PS3 2.50 firmware update hits North America (PSP 5.00 too)

Good news, friends, you won't have to wait until tomorrow to get at that new Flash 9 support offered up by the PS3 2.50 update: the firmware is available now. Sony tossed in a few other assorted updates like power-saving options and voice chat enhancements, but we're sure you'll be too busy watching Doogie Howser, M.D. on Hulu to notice. Happy downloading!

Update: PSP 5.00 is available now too.

[Thanks, Tony]

[holycow @ Oct 14th 2008 11:52PM]

Awesome!

[Seth @ Oct 14th 2008 11:55PM]

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!

[NHAnimator @ Oct 15th 2008 8:00AM]

Love the new auto-off function. Another thumbs up for Sony.

[Eddie @ Oct 15th 2008 10:17AM]

mmm This means I can start watching season 4 of How I Met Your Mother! Yays!

[refriedbeans19 @ Oct 14th 2008 11:52PM]

hell yeah, i'm downloading the update right now ^_^

[refriedbeans19 @ Oct 14th 2008 11:57PM]

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. :)

[EmoChicksAreHot.....Seriously @ Oct 14th 2008 11:59PM]

Damn,that was quick.

But I likely the quicky.

[holycow @ Oct 15th 2008 12:05AM]

"Damn,that was quick."

That's what she said!
I'm sorry I couldn't resist!

[sracer @ Oct 15th 2008 12:00AM]

Hulu Works! You can even zoom in to have the video fill the screen.

[centinall @ Oct 15th 2008 12:40AM]

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.

[inetdevboy @ Oct 15th 2008 2:33PM]

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.

[Jonathan Minnick @ Oct 15th 2008 12:01AM]

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 :)

[Ken Allen @ Oct 15th 2008 12:04AM]

So when do I get the ability to play music while playing a game?

[why not the LS2LS7? @ Oct 15th 2008 12:09AM]

You already can, it depends on the game though.

[rickjamess @ Oct 15th 2008 12:09AM]

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.

[gameforall @ Oct 15th 2008 12:12AM]

You already can :P

[Andrea @ Oct 15th 2008 12:04AM]

Fantastic, thanks so much for the update! :)

[digitallysick @ Oct 15th 2008 12:04AM]

the ps3 web browser sucks i hope this makes it better

[Jonathan @ Oct 15th 2008 12:07AM]

Awesome I paused my Office episodes to install the update. Looking forward to hulu and the rest of the internet.

[Anthony @ Oct 15th 2008 12:08AM]

flash 9 dumbbell.

[Ryan @ Oct 15th 2008 12:08AM]

anyone notice the divx connected thing????

[Ryan @ Oct 15th 2008 12:25AM]

I meant Divx VOD in system settings

[holycow @ Oct 15th 2008 12:21AM]

Stop advertising the forums here -_-

[Robot Overlord @ Oct 15th 2008 12:29AM]

Do us all a favor and drown.

[sam @ Oct 15th 2008 12:38AM]

anyone know if they solved .mp4 streaming issues?

[collegekid13 @ Oct 15th 2008 12:46AM]

Yaaa redtube here we come

[raymond @ Oct 15th 2008 12:48AM]

Disgusting... good idea

[Jon @ Oct 15th 2008 12:52AM]

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.

[HighRoller @ Oct 15th 2008 12:54AM]

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!!!

[SOOPERGOOMAN @ Oct 15th 2008 1:02AM]

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?

[HighRoller @ Oct 15th 2008 1:07AM]

OK I will try that but is there a site I can donload it from because the Sony site only has 2.43...

[HighRoller @ Oct 15th 2008 2:38AM]

Seriously, I need to know where I can download this update from the web, Its been running this whole time and its done 37%

[Bjsfreaked @ Oct 15th 2008 11:17AM]

i wouldn't touch it unless its from there official site or on the network cause......
you never know *scary music in background*

[UnkalledFor @ Oct 17th 2008 12:44AM]

Here's the direct link ;)

http://dus01.ps3.update.playstation.net/update/ps3/image/us/2008_1015_823ab63c96d570510b254a80755df446/PS3UPDAT.PUP

[Dustin Hess @ Oct 15th 2008 1:18AM]

Downloaded, working great. As far as I can tell, the .mp4 streaming issues have been solved.

[Justin Rossetti @ Oct 15th 2008 1:20AM]

Any why to have the browser stop prompting you to activate flash every new page?

This is so annoying.

[NineToez @ Oct 15th 2008 1:29AM]

Awesome! Downloading now!

[lenny @ Oct 15th 2008 1:34AM]

hey guys does pandora work? downloading... ok its done please let me know

[Che Allen @ Oct 15th 2008 1:37AM]

PSP 5.0 firmware update is up as well. Installing right now.

[rudefyet @ Oct 15th 2008 1:51AM]

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.

[Omar @ Oct 15th 2008 3:32AM]

Sweet now I can watch Hulu via PSP.

[sts @ Oct 15th 2008 5:33AM]

The firmware is also go in Europe.

[raus22 @ Oct 15th 2008 5:59AM]

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...

[raus22 @ Oct 15th 2008 6:02AM]

oh and im in the land of PAL(europe) if that have any meaning to the problem...

[lyons @ Oct 15th 2008 10:46AM]

yep im having thew same problem.
it seems to be putting videos at 50hz . my divX files play in colour though.

[Eugenia Loli-Queru @ Oct 15th 2008 6:04AM]

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.

[jared @ Oct 15th 2008 6:11AM]

If this is old news, why do you need to bring people to your site to read the old news.

[cMERON @ Oct 15th 2008 6:19AM]

does anyone know the list of games that sre screenshot compatible

[Xtopher Robin @ Oct 15th 2008 6:35AM]

And my PSP is updating now too. :)

[Zoran @ Oct 15th 2008 7:25AM]

You can watch Joost too, very cool. Check it out - www.joost.com