ps3. downloaded and installed(firmware 1.80)

And, yes, the latest playstaion 3 firmware realy do deliver on the goods.
Excellent upscaling of both ps2,ps1 and dvd´s and a bunch of new settings in the ps3 menu, i guess some of the new menu settings could have been sneaked in alongside one of the previous updates, but if so i´ve managed to miss em.

Anyway, the new settings allows you not just to enable upscaling for dvd´s,ps2 and ps1 games + you can tell your ps3 to smooth out your ps2 and ps1 games which most likely will benefit people with sdtv´s the most, but also use a much higher color quality in general and tweak a bunch of other image quality related settings, kudos for that sony.

And yeap, you do notice a difference in image quality, even inside of the general ps3 menu, but i guess that could be depending on the quality of your tv aswell, and i doubt people without a proper hdtv and hdmi will notice any change in color quality, but we did, and that was a nice surprise.

Whats more, well the browser,psn store text cursor is now green and bigger :) lol, well it´s actually an improvement since it´s now, far easier to actually see your cursor.

Also, the new search for a media server feature is damn neat and realy makes your shiny ps3 the cornerstone of your modern households media entertainment, it´s a snap to stream music and video and images from any dnla enabled device.

Excellent improvement if you ask me, and if your dnla device can connect to the world wide web, well then you can stream internet radio to your ps3!

Things like being enabled to remove your dvd player, not having to purchase a bd player move away those ps2´s, skip the cables, and remove your radio,reciever is just so smooth and makes your ps3 just so much prettier :)

great update!

edit: aparantly the 1.80 update also made it possible to play your bd.ray movies in 720p so that will make everyone on hdtv´s without 1080p resolution real happy.