I prefer the friends/messages box at the top as it was always by sheer fluke that I found out I had a message.

I like the new look friends list as it saves me having to highlight each of my friends to tell me what game they’re playing.

I’m not worried about the ad ticker as I was used to the original scroller that was there anyway.

Dynamic themes are a nice way of showing off the XMB (loving the Wipeout one)

If I had to gripe about it at all, the only thing I don’t like is that the original playstation 3 splash screen when starting a game has been removed, now it just cuts to black and I’m still at that stage where it feels like something has gone wrong with the game at that point.

I’ve had some minor freezes on a couple of games and some slowdown on fallout 3 but I know this will all be patched soon so I don’t see any reason to complain.

Lastly I would have liked to see the Internet Radio software make it to the PS3 but that’s not a big deal as I still have a PSP and/or winamp for these things.

All in all I think it’s a nice update Sony team, thank you.

sound! how can you break the sound in GAMES on a gaming console? if i turn it on i get the opening orchestra tune-up sound, but if i then launch a game i get… NO SOUND. if, instead of launching the game straight away, i waggle the menu from side to side for 5 seconds or so the sound comes back and i can then launch the game. no idea how that one got past quality control, but it’ more than a little amateurish to say “before launching the game on your $500 console, ‘scroll the XMB menu from side-to-side until sound comes back before launching the game’”

media server functionality — TOTALLY AND UTTERLY BROKEN. worked like a charm until this update. now it only shows folders, but no files!! and on earth is with the vanishing text on the UI?? obviously nobody who knows anything about interface design was allowed actual input here, or that idea would have been unceremoniously squased on the head with no mercy…

i hate to say it, but this is an awful, awful update. clearly the development process is in URGENT need of quality control improvements to stop crap like this actually getting out in the wild.

:(

Thank you.

fix it Sony…

This is pissing me off every time I turn on my PS3 and I’ve found another new “feature”: the names of files and folders above and below the one highlighted disappear after a couple of seconds. Which idiot came up with these braindead design ideas??
It makes it harder to navigate through collections because you have to keep moving to be able to see the list. STUPID!!!

If these issues aren’t resolved or firmware rolled back to 2.8 in the next week, I think I’m going to have to quit using my PS3 as a mediacenter and build a small PC with BD drive instead. Sony are you listening? You are going to be bleeding customers if firmware 3.0 is not removed ASAP!!