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PS3 Update 2.70: Video walkthrough of firmware

PS3 Update 2.70: Video walkthrough of firmware

By: Peter Chubb | April 2, 2009 | 15 Comments

In a recent post, we asked you what your impressions were of the new Text Chat feature on PS3 Firmware 2.7. Here we have a Video walkthrough preview of PS3 firmware Update 2.70, there are a lot of great features in this firmware update date. The first of which is text chat, the video takes a close look at how this works. To start a text chat you can go down to your friends list, you can click on a friend or the triangle button of a friend.

Then just click on a friend and start a new chat, you will then be given a choice of text chat or voice chat. Once the program has started you can start typing messages, the video gets a little boring while we are waiting for the demonstrator to type his message.

Once you start communicating with a friend, you can carry the conversation on through a game. This is demonstrated on the video as they are launching Killzone while in chat. When you are in a game just press the PS button and then go over to the chatroom, it will then have the chat log saved from the previous conversation. You can have up to three chats running at once, and u can invite up to 15 people into your chat.

There have also some improvements made to the friends list, in the past the list was sorted by everyone who was online alphabetically, and everyone who was offline alphabetically. You can now sort by name, or sort by status, this will be in the order of when someone was last online.

Watch the complete PS3 firmware Update 2.70 Video walkthrough below.

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  • richard

    Text chat is a waste of time,get some decent features!!!!!

  • richard

    This update has messed up my ps3, wont let me play cod4.My friends are also having this problem. keep getting ERROR unable 2 connect 2 activision matchmaking!

  • Stedy

    2.7 has messed me up also. No longer am i able to stream xvid movies from my external HDD. Hundreds of movies are now useless! This was half the reason i got a PS3.

  • Michael

    i guess that the voice chat option won’t stay open when you start a game…. shame as that would have been exciting. I’ll have to get one of those nifty keypads now.

  • low

    ill stick to xbox live i had that and more with the first xbox.

  • greg

    i dont understand. What is the point of having text chat. It takes the same time to just send a normal message !!!
    Sony needs to listen to us and stop making updates that we dont want and take up space and also gives me viruses !!!!
    And what is he on about status or set by name. It was liek that before =) Lol :’) Im gonna go back to xbox 360 if sony carries on wrecking their brand ! Shape up !

  • joe

    hello I’m always happy to see a new update but FIFA 09 online features are not responding the game freezes once i try to play online anybody any ideas maybe a patch is required this is really frustrating lol.

  • captain obvious

    Xbox 1 had the ability to play music during games for god sakes, PS3 STILL can’t!!?? OMFG, can they buy a damn clue and get this last generation feature available to us already!!? Holy hen sh#! WTF IMBECILS!!!

  • Herman

    This looks like the best PS3 update for me, I’ve always been waiting for chatting!!!

  • Mike

    Same here, error pops out when attempting to connect to the EA servers!

  • steve

    yo well wow thats not what i want to have
    maybe its time for an update where the ps3 can read ntfs so i can use my hd drive to play music, video’s and other
    stuff

    im sorry but this is not the great update that i expected

  • Stop Makin New Verisons

    Stop Its Messin Every 1 Ps3 Up And It always comes up eurror 809800 what ever number is there …

    youuuuuuu Need to Jam Sony

  • http://xerolabs.com ron

    please update it to where i could watch my online shows on my ps3. like netflix, abc or nbc.com. i am sure itll take no time for you guyz but will make a big selling point. and what the heck is a W!!evolution
    ps-4
    xbox 720

  • http://www.sudobash.net sudobash.net

    I have a similar problem. i’ve always had to hit triangle and go to display all but this has always been fast at listing my movies. Now it takes up to 5 minutes to find them all which means I’m sitting there waiting for it to find the one I want before I can click on it. Sucks.

  • http://toast Liquid

    Steve you can use your external harddrive for music and videos. just format your hdd in fat32 (fat32format)in dos command. Got a 1terabyte hhd and all my movies on there but version 2.7 F*cked everything and can’t watch alot of xvid movies anymore!