Similarly to the Microsoft team, the Sony crew are ready to release their next, and surprisingly frequent, instalment of the Playstation 3 Firmware including DivX support.

It was the job of the UK Playstation website [which appears to have been removed] to spill the beans on the update, to be released on the 18th December (not 100% confirmed yet), with some DivX shaped goodies before the holidays, sadly with some limitations though that hopefully won't affect too many users:

• Files that are copy-protected,
• files encoded with DivX 3.11 or
• files that are larger than 2GB...

...will simply not play on the console.

Something that may disappoint PS3 owners, is the still missing in-game XMB, which some are now crossing their fingers for in the next update.

Also being added in the update is support for VC-1 (WMV) playback, Type 3 music bitmapping, Blu-ray Profile 1.1 and a "Voice Changer" which begs the question, "is it a good idea that some adults will be able to sound like little children?".