Today PS3 Brand Manager Mark Bowles has made available a PS3 Firmware 3.0 Q&A on the European PlayStation Blog, as follows:
Many of you have been asking why we haven’t responded to your complaints about last week’s 3.0 update until now.
Sorry it’s taken us a while to get back to you – this is obviously an emotive subject and there have been a lot of issues raised...
Sony is set to launch an £82m pan-European marketing campaign for the PlayStation 3, firing the first advertising salvo against rivals Nintendo Wii and Microsoft Xbox as consumers start to think about presents for Christmas 2009.
The TV element of the campaign, which has been developed by the TBWA agency, marks a departure from Sony's traditional tactic of often esoteric...
Update: Sony's Eric Lempel has now officially detailed PS3 Firmware 3.0!
Andrew House has just announced PS3 Firmware 3.0 at GamesCom. It’ll feature animated themes, a What’s New section and some other great interface changes.
There will also be direct links to various TV services on the XMB — for example, iPlayer in the UK. For those interested, the battery meter has been moved...
BBC staff member Jon (iPlayer Host) has stated on their forums (linked above) that they have fixed issues people were having using the BBC iPlayer on the PlayStation 3 console.
To quote: Kalel2008: As soon as I read on the Web site that you can play videos from the iplayer on the PS3, I was so excited untill I found that it was not true.
dosyman: You can, but it's an unofficial site....
The BBC has signed a deal with internet and phone provider Virgin Media to make its iPlayer service available on TV. Virgin Media customers will be able to catch up on the past week's programmes without the need for downloading.
Malcolm Wall, the company's CEO of content, said it was "proud to be working with the BBC to continue to lead this revolution in TV viewing". The...
BBC blogger Darren Waters has reported that the bbc's iplayer is now working through an unofficial website on the PS3.
To access it just enter http://www.ps3iplayer.com/ in the PS3's browser to access BBC content.
I haven't tried this myself yet and there seem to be some mixed reports coming through about quality. Either way it seems another cool piece of kit in the...
The BBC's iPlayer video service will soon be available via the Nintendo Wii. The video download and streaming service that lets people catch up with BBC programmes will soon be a channel on the hugely popular game console.
Early versions of the service will be available from 9 April but more polished software will be released as the service is developed. The BBC is still...
The BBC has launched a version of its iPlayer video on demand service for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch.
It is the first time the service has been available on portable devices.
The iPhone and iPod touch are able to stream shows from the iPlayer website over wi-fi networks. The iPhone cannot stream BBC video over the cell network. A BBC developer said that...
A number of technologies have exploded throughout 2007 from Facebook and the iPhone to the Nintendo Wii.
But what will be making the headlines over the next 12 months?
Here the BBC News website gives its predictions for five technologies that could become big in 2008.
THE WEB TO GO
One of the biggest drawbacks of web applications is...
The BBC's online services will be made available free of charge at thousands of wi-fi hotspots around the UK.
The corporation has agreed a deal with wi-fi firm The Cloud, which operates 7,500 hotspots around the country.
The news website, programme sites and downloads of TV shows via the iPlayer can be accessed