Playstation 3 Blu-ray drive to get massive update
Better late than never, right? Sony has just announced that it will be releasing a massive firmware update for the on-board PS3 Blu-ray drives. The biggest change will be the upgrade to Blur-ray Profile 2.0, which will bring full online support for any Blu-ray titles that offer Profile 2.0 content. The first two titles with such connectivity will be The Sixth Day, and Walk Hard, with many more to follow. Other enhancements will include better DivX and WMV support, more stable PSP interaction, and a more pleasant web browsing experience. All told, this is a worthy update that brings the PS3 in line with many higher-end Blu-ray players currently on the market. Expect to see this hit consoles by the end of March.
All I have to say is hells yeah! That is awesome, cant wait for the update.
it’s been a long time coming.
I’m getting a PS3.
PS3 > Xbox.
might now consider getting a PS3
This is just going to be the candles on the perfect black cake.
“Blur-ray”….that’s pretty good! But was it intentional or just a typo?
so if I bought an old PS3 80gig will it still play the 2.0 blu ray? will it accept the firmware upgrade even if it is discontinued?
dont buy a ps3 i have 1 all the firmware updates in the world wont help the fact that sony’s BD player quits workingt and they refuse to recall or repair its a wide spread problem all ps3’s
Kelly, My blu ray drive just crashed on the 20th of March 09. I can confirm that they refuse to recall. Might be time for a class action suit.. This is ridiculous!!!
Wow… two people have problems with their PS3s and Sony should recall all of them? LOL
After a year and a half my PS3 Blu Ray drive just took a crap…. won’t read any form of disc… PS3 Blu Ray is crap
My PS3 Blu-Ray just died too, about 13 months old. It starts to load the game, then locks up. will play HDD based games, so it’s not the system. Also, a quick google search will show this to be many more than the two people (now 4 people) who have read this thread and reported their drive dead. If you take a sec and thinka bout how many poeople have a ps3, and of those, how many have read this thread, and of those how many have had their drive fail, and of those how many actually bothered to report it here… 4 could likely represent tens to hundreds of thousands..
my 60gig just took a dump. had it from day 1. i think it was the 2.70update
My drive went out just alittle over a year of purchase. if anyone is doing something to help such as a lawsuit or filing a camplaint please give me the info official.psycho@yahoo.com
My Blu-Ray drive failed after only a few uses but I didn’t contact Sony in time to get it fixed under warranty. This was truly just a few times use, about 3-4 hours each time and it failed. The Blu-Ray drives in these PS3’s are defective and Sony needs to step up to the plate with a recall. I will not pay them $150 to fix a defective product. They need to do a recall! I hope someone puts together a class action lawsuit on this. I think it’s only a matter of time since the problem is so widespread.
Same deal here … 16 months after purchase, the PS3 is not reading any discs. Time to lawyer up …
Same here– our 80G PS3 won’t read any BluRays, or PS3 games. I’ve downloaded the 2.70 update with no effect. It went down at 11.5 months. We didn’t get our act together to get it in for warranty work, and now we’re out of luck. Just a horrible product, (especially for the big $$) in my opinion.
WOW!!!i cant believe im reading this CRAP-OLA!!!!!!! ive had my ps3 for about 15 months,,,and its just now starting to piss me off!! games,movies, just about any disc i load,,,locks-up or gives me some kind of crap!!!havent had ANY problems until this last firmware upgrade??!!! I’ve disassembled this thing ten times to clean and adjust the whole console inside and out….(I am qualified) i guess…i clean it quarterly…..so now what????with the research ive been doing….it seems i have a “weak laser” which was sony’s idea…to buy these crap blu-ray drives..??!!. so now i have to buy another…plus the thousands spent on games ,blu-ray movies and on their sony network… ive “spent” too much already!!! LITERALLY!!!!!$4000.00 PLUS?????
OH…YEA?!!!!! I forgot the other 12 hundred on their “PSP” and all ive spent in the past on the first playstation and PS2…plus the games…hardware and software…..nobody thanks about all that stuff!!….games,,movies,,..patch cables,,…controllers,,,dance pads,,..cameras,,..headsets,,…cool covers and stands,,magazines to help out with stuff.,,internet access…modems,,..roughters..,,the list goes on.
It’s about time someone put a class action in there face …
…And for your information my ps3 dont read anymore bluray after 17 month of use. Dont wanna pay 177 $ to fix it #$%”
I agree with almost eveyone here,they sould do a recall and own up to their mistakes like microsft.If they dont i hope someone takes class action(If i new how i would)mine also died with a weak laser.
After 16 months, my blu ray stopped working.
$149 to get it replaced, at least 3 weeks without my PS3.
There has to be hundreds of thousands of PS3 owners who have had their blu ray drive stop working. How many more does it take before Sony recalls this? Reimburse those of us who have already paid and replace those whose drives haven’t died yet. They will though!
16 months my ps3 had quit reading games also
wow, I have invested over $1200 in everything for my PS3 (not including my TV) and been a strong sony supporter forever.
My blu-ray laser just took a fat dump on my after 15 months.
I cant believe how many posts I have read about thousands of others with the same problem. What a JOKE!
Looks like Im going to have to take back all the bad things I have said to my X-Box friends and join there team. Sigh, how am I going to ever recoop my investment… Im very sad today..!