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During the CES 2008 (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas, Sony demonstrated their PS3’s capability to play Blu-ray movies on the console.

The new features that will be added to Blu-ray movies, in the future, will be the addition of lower-resolution versions of the movie on the disc.

The PS3 is not encoding the Blu-ray movie for uploading to your PSP but sending a lower-res version of the movie that is stored on the Blu-ray disc.

For those with PSP’s with a memory stick, they will be able to download the lower-res version to their PSP from the PS3 system.

There was always the promise of greater inactivity,” said David Bishop, president of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

I am not sure if the lower-res version of the movie will be available for transfer to other systems such as iPods but the outlook is that it will be easily transferable to another system as the lower-res version should be in mp4 format. (I am assuming that it’ll still be based on the mp4 format.)

Blazing Angels 2 - PS3 demo, originally uploaded by jonjon_01.

The World War II aerial combat game Blazing Angels 2 is now available on the PS3 system.

Having upgraded my PS3 to version 2.0 operating system, I used the PS3’s WiFi to connect to my home network.

Using the PS3 as a internet browser is slow at best but the download for this 1116MB file is downloading about 1MB per 5 seconds.

Ubisoft’s website says the game is released today for the PS3.

Ah Hellboy, the demon child that grows up to save the world from evil… What a twist!

Fans of Hellboy will be rewarded with the release of “Hellboy: Science of Evil” on the PSP, PS3, Xbox 360 and even on your mobile phone around June 0f 2008.

The initial date of the release was sometime in 2007, but Krome Studios shows ETA and no dates showing for the release, currently, even thought their trailer shows 2007…

The E3 2007 game trailer looks like it’s for the PSP. YouTube commentors pretty much think the graphics look like its more for the PS2.

It does look pretty bad on YouTube, but I think it’s more due to the compression of the video, either that or its a PSP game trailer. Check out this video from Krome’s webpage link, it’ll take you directly to the quicktime vid.

The PS3 is now sitting prettily next to my Hitachi big screen and its working beautifully.

I got 10 free Blu-ray movies with the PS3:

• Casino Royale
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
• House of Flying Daggers
• Resident Evil: Apocalypse
• The Fifth Element
• Ocean’s Thirteen
• Underworld
• Spider-man 3
• XXX

The deal for the Blu-rays were that you had to choose any 10 Blu-ray movies, under $30) and have it present with you when you purchased the PS3.

One thing about the PS3’s capabilities to play Blu-ray and Dvds is that it works as promised; I only wish that the PS3 could do upconverting of DVD movies to HD quality.

Perhaps Sony will add upconverting DVD’s to HD quality in their next software upgrade for the PS3…

Well, here’s the cool thing, the PS3 software version 1.8 and up supports the upconverting of DVD movies. It will also upconvert your PS1 and PS2 games! If you received Motorstorm with your PS3, then you can choose to update your software to 1.8 from the 1.5 which your PS3 probably is.