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Users
- You can now password-protect user accounts.

Settings
- [Dynamic Normalizer] has been added as an option under [Sound Settings].
- [Energy Saver] has been added as an option.
- [Equalizer] has been added as a feature under [Music Settings].
- [Full] has been added as an option for [DVD Wide Display] under [BD / DVD Settings].
- [Photo Settings] has been added as an option.
- [PS / PS2 Settings] has been added as an option.
- [RSS Channel Settings] has been added as an option.
- [Sample Rate] has been added to Audio CD Import under [Music Settings].
- [Screen Saver] has been expanded under [Display Settings].
- The method of selecting an output resolution has been changed in [Video Output Settings] under [Display Settings].
- [Theme Settings] has been added as an option.
- [Zero Unused Disk Space] has been added as an option under [System Settings] > [Format Utility].

Photo
- Additional slideshow effects have been added.
- [Photo Effects] have been added as a feature.
- Wallpaper feature has been added.
- [Zoom] has been added as a feature.

Music
- Additional visualization effects have been added.
- CD information can now be entered.
- Three-speed fast forward and fast reverse has been added as a feature.

Video
- Files can now be played sequentially.
- Three-speed fast forward and fast reverse has been added as a feature.
- You can now select [Zoom] under [Screen Mode] when playing video files saved on the hard disk or storage media.*.
*An appropriate USB adapter (not included) is required to use storage media with some models.

Game
- Support for PlayStation 3 format software titles has been expanded.
- XMB™ (XrossMediaBar) is now accessible during gameplay.

Network
- [RSS Channel] has been added as a feature.

Friends
- You can now have multiple chat sessions.
- You can now select an image to use as your Avatar from [Photo].

Other
- Date and Time is now shown when the PS button is pressed.
- File sorting has been changed.
- [Help] has been added as a feature.
- Playability status with the PS3™ system has changed for some PlayStation® and PlayStation®2 format titles.
- [Secure Delete] has been added as an option.
- Some PlayStation Network features have been revised

*now that is a lot of updates, but I guess that can only be good for PS3 owners

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- Playability status with the PS3™ system has changed for some PlayStation® and PlayStation®2 format titles.

So.. did they make compatibility worse or better?
They're pretty vague...

This looks promising...hopefully somewhere hidden in there is DVD upscaling, or at least an option to play BD Movies at 720p instead of only 480 or 1080 (As I have no 1080p, only 1080i, and 720p is supposed to look better right???)

Yup 720p looks better then 1080i

unless you've got a monster 108" HDTV where the pixels are an inch big or something, interlacing doesn't really make all that much of a difference. there are even place that interlaced signals look better than progressive (i.e. RE4 GCN played on Wii in 480p. it looks like a jumbled up pile of, well, you get it.). also, if you're like me and your HDTV is an LCD and is between 1280x720 and 1920x1080 (mine's 1366x768) but doesn't support a full 1080p signal, a resized 1080i will look better than an enlarged 720p. LCDs are really the worst displays for gaming because the pixels are so close together and perfectly square so they bring out jaggies more than projection and plasma displays and have slower reaction times and less displayable colors.