Reasons To Be Cheerful for PS3 Owners: Part II

April 10th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under
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Yesterday, I posted about the PS3’s Profile v1.1 compliance. Here’s another reason why the PS3 is not just a games console, but a top-notch Blu-ray player.

Profile v2.0

Three weeks ago, Sony gave us firmware update version 2.20. This gave the PlayStation 3 the ability to access Profile v2.0 features that have just started to appear on certain Blu-ray discs such as Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story and The 6th Day.

Profile v2.0, also known as Blu-ray Disc Live (BD-Live), allows viewers to access added movie specific extras not found on the original disc such as additional trailers or behind-the-scenes material, the ability to purchase movie-related merchandise, download movie ringtones to your mobile phone, or to play movie-related games online with anyone around the world, all whilst watching the movie. Groovy, ‘ey?

For a player to be v2.0 compliant, the player must have an ethernet port and at least 1 GB of persistent memory. Luckily again, the PlayStation 3 has an ethernet port and between 20 to 80 GB of persistent memory (actually, it’s a fully loaded computer with Wi-Fi). Profile v2.0 is going to take off in a major way, and more movies will be made available shortly. The hit sci-fi action comedy Men In Black (MIB) has just been announced as coming in June 17th and will be a v2.0 BD. Yet another reason to own a PS3.

To be continued…

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