Today, PS3 announced the release of its 2.20 firmware upgrade, which includes the new Interactive Blu-ray Movie Features BD-LIVE. According to Sony it will be available in late March. That, on my calendar, means 1 week and a half max!

With this release, PS3 will be the first Blu-ray player available right now able to play BD-Live (also known as profile 2.0) content. BD-Live enables the following features:

• Download programming from the Web as well as handle picture-in-picture playback.
• A variety of downloads, including online games, bonus scenes, shorts, trailers subtitles and ringtones.
• “Resume play” will enable PS3 system to start playing a Blu-ray disc and DVD at the point it was stopped, even if the disc had been removed.
• “Audio Output Device” will be a new Remote Play setting, enabling PSP to serve as a remote control for music played through PS3.
• PS3 system’s Internet browser will be enhanced: Video files directly linked from a Web page will be able to be streamed, and the browser’s view speed will be improved.
• DivX and WMV format videos that are larger than 2GB will be playable.
• “Mosquito Noise Reduction” will be added as an AV setting in the control panel of the DVD/BD player for improved movie playback.

For now, there are not many movies that will be able showcase the new addition. Those titles are: War and Saw IV (currently available) and Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story and The 6th Day (To be released in April)

Upgrades are always welcome! (When don’t create bugs, of course! :))

Bellow you’ll find a video talking about the new feature!

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