Today PlayTV, the Digital TV/DVR addon unit for Sony's PlayStation 3, has been updated to version 1.21.

A minimum of PS3 Firmware 3.0 is required to receive the update, and changes include the following:

• Support for Dolby Digital + for HD channels
• The recording of HD channels is now possible
• Multi-channel audio replay.
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Today an NISA News Letter came with the confirmation of the Disgaea 3 PS3 trophy patch release date and some sad news to those who have 200+ hours of gameplay...

To quote: The Disgaea 3 Trophy patch will be available on the PSN on July 16th. There are more than 50 trophies you can accomplish! Since Disgaea 3 was developed without the trophy system, your saved data will not...

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Today PlayStation Store Senior Manager Grace Chen shared the following PSN update:

Hi Everyone - It’s time again for the weekly PlayStation Store Update.

To commemorate the availability of the Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li movie on the Video Store, we’ve gathered all our Street Fighter-related items under one category. Find them all housed under the New...

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Hermes has updated to uLoader v1.7 for Nintendo Wii today, which is now compatible with Rock Band and other USB peripheral titles and it adds parental control.

To quote, roughly translated:

NOTE: Custom IOS 222 1.6 is required now (the new installer with menu uses). This cIOS is incompatible with previous versions, since now the modules are loaded from the...

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PSP developer Ahman has now updated to iR Shell to v5.0, which includes the following changes:

This release is for PSP Slim & Lite only. It introduces an Advanced Multi-tasking feature which allows you to run 2 applications simultaneously and switch between them with a hot key.

Of course, you can still multi-task these 2 apps together with iR Shell build-in...

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Capcom has announced that the Street Fighter IV training manual is now available to download.

It contains information and techniques for characters as well as some extra content such as interviews.

To quote: The Street Fighter Training Manual is up for downloading and reading.

It's full of great art, info and techniques for characters, and even...

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This utility by Sentry23 offers easy and fast h264 .MKV to PS3 (and XBOX 360) compatible MP4 and PS3 compatible M2TS/AC3 conversion.

Recoding to Xvid, mpeg2 and compatible h264 (with hardcoded subtitles or to AVCHD with softsubs) is also supported.

A new feature includes folder batch conversion of AVI files to PS3 compatible format. (scan and only convert...

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Today PSP hacker Dark_AleX has released a library that aides homebrew developers in making applications resembling the look and feel of the PSP's original XMB.

The PSP VLF Library (VSH Look & Feel) is also responsible for the official 'XMB' look of Despertar del Cementerio, for example.

Download: PSP VLF Library 1.0 [Right-click, Save As]

To quote: It is here finally....

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Kevin Tofel of TechNet has put together a fairly comprehensive list of what's inside the Vista SP2 update—just as the beta rolls out to MSDN and TechNet subscribers. Here is what users can expect:

• Built-in Hyper-V hypervisor
• Event logging support in SPC
• Fixes for DRM issues from WMP upgrades
• Windows Vista Feature Pack for Wireless
•...

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IGN Australia (linked above) is reporting that the new PlayStation 3 Firmware 2.50 is incompatible with their Sony amp/receiver and greets them with a black screen. As soon as they cut the 7.1 Sony amp/receiver supporting 1080p over HDMI out of the picture, things worked which to them is "utterly boggling". Sony is yet to comment on this issue...

To quote: Last week Sony...

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