Sony has just released an update of its PS3 Firmware patch v2.70.
There first update is a new Text Chat system, it’s like an IM program for the PS3, allowing you to hold conversations with up to 15 other players and engage in up to three different chats at once.
The Text Chats run in the background, so you can keep chatting whilst you swap in and out of games.
There is also a new way of sorting your friends list, sorting them according to their online status and you can now add attachments to messages of up to 3MB.
Sony have also introduced a way of choosing to back up your videos purchased from the PlayStation Store to portable devices in order to free up space.
The addition of Text Chat has solved the problem of trying to organise games with multiple friends, but gadget experts T3 reckon without a voice chat system, getting on the phone is still going to be quicker.
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Interesting one this. A new joint venture company has been formed by LCD TV rivals Sony and Sharp. The new company called Sharp Display Products Corporation will be open for business from April 1st 2009 with the intention on focusing on large LCD TV panels.
Sharp will have 66% of the company and Sony will have 34%. The venture is aimed to help both companies; to give Sony ready access and control over large LCD panel and to relieve the site development off Sharp. The first screens from Sharp Display Products are expected to be launched in just under two years from now.
The second joint venture could possibly be by Toshiba who are currently in negotiations to buy out Panasonics stake of a joint LCD venture.
Presently, Panasonic controls 40% of Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology which produce small LCDs used in mobile phones and the deal, said to be initiated by Panasonic, should be worth several million yen when completed. Panasonic have refused to comment on the buyout but has admitted that its current strategy is to focus on larger LCD TV panels (sound familiar?) and larger Plasma TV panels.
