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It seems like all that I write about is Playstation! I should probably spend a little more time reading books and working on my programming and less time playing the ps3 during my free time. With christmas break around the corner, thats not likely to happen.

Although I have been playing more than I should, this past week I have been hitting the books for finals and so I am just getting around to updating to 2.53 on the playstation. That being said I think it was just release yesterday, but I am not sure. A quick seach on google will tell you that the main update for this patch will be to bring full screen flash to the playstation. While this has received mixed reaction, I am looking forward to seeing what all I will have access to that I did not before. Sites like youtube may not have the highest quality video, so unless your watching TV on a 21″, your videos might not look so good on a 50″ with youtube. Nothing says HD quite like a pixelated video. What I am excited for is sites such as NBC, CBS, and others which provide a selection of there shows and some with HD quality. I will look foward to see how those sites will perform with this new update. All we need now is either a netflix player for the ps3, or for netflix to switch to flash instead of silverlight, or for ps3 to get silverlight support.

Although I didnt dig to deep, it looks like that is the main point to the 2.53 update. If you know something more about it feel free to share.

UPDATE: When trying to play a video from nbc.com I got the “You need to have flash 9 to play this, click here to download.” After spending some time trying to navigate around cbs.com I was finally able to get the the full episodes of Numb3rs, a show my wife and I like to watch. While I do not get any flash errors, the page just seems to load forever on first try. I refreshed the page and then it loaded properly. One click and we had a perfectly fit full screen video on our TV, so yes for cbs and a big no for nbc

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