PS3 Update 2.70

Sony releases a constant flow of updates for the PlayStation 3, this helps keep it up to date with bug fixes but also allows us to get the full potential out of the console. Sometimes the downloads for the updates seem unnecessarily large, but they often add a lot of items that we do not notice. Update 2.70 is 140MB in size making it one of the largest downloads but also takes a reasonable amount of time to install due to the amount of items it adds.

Firstly, there is the addition of a dynamic normalizer which allows people who listen to music off their PS3 to reduce or increase the average volume of songs to level them out.

The internet browser on the PS3 is sometimes slow but in general is always effective, i never use it myself due to my computer being right next to my PS3, but for those who do use it there is now the ability to copy text of the website and then input it into any place which has the onscreen keyboard with a paste button placed underneath the predictive text box.

Video's which are available to download of the PSN store are sometimes large and take a long time to set up, and previously they have been lost in a system restore, but with so many complaints that Sony has received they have been able to allow the video's to be backed up with the normal backup feature. What i would also like is the ability to back up the games and other downloads that you have to pay for to be backed up, but then some would ruin that and make pirate copies.

The Xbox 360 has always been famous with how easy it is for how easy it is to talk to your friends, the PS3 has taken some of their ideas and built on them, such as the new text chat which gets rid of the need to go through multiple menus if you want to have a conversation with someone just messages. You can now create a room where you can talk to your friends in and outside of a game with out having to set it up, it creates an MSN Messenger style chat which competes with Xbox's genuine MSN feature.

One other small feature which may be helpful is the ability to sort your friends by name or by status.

Update 2.70 is one of the best yet but are there any other features that you want for the next update, feel free to leave your suggestions.


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