Other changes coming to patch 1.4 include improvements to the menu pad and Navigator, which you can now navigate directly by holding down the Start button without having to go through the Menu Pad. The cross-game invite support has also been revamped. Now you can invite your friends to join you in PlayStation Home more easily than ever before.

IMPROVEMENTS

Menu Pad and the Navigator

- All of the existing menus can be found under “Settings” now.

- The carousel view can be turned off in the settings if you wish.

• The Navigator can be accessed directly in Home by pressing and holding [START] without having to go through the Menu Pad.
• Extra icons have been added to the side of each space in the Navigator to indicate if this space is a favourite and whether it has any friends in it.
• There are extra options in the Menu Pad and Home Safe Screen for setting preferences as to how much of the new character labels you want to see.
• Home now fully supports cross game invites.
• If one of your friends is online but not in Home you can use the Menu Pad or Navigator friend list to invite them to join you.
• When the friend accepts the invitation they will automatically load Home and be transported to your location.
• The loading screen has been simplified.
• Helpful tips are displayed while you are loading.
• Access to Home is now restricted by parental control level (set on the console) as well as age (set on the PSN account) in each region.
• The audio system has been optimised and improved.
• Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound is now correctly supported.
• Added support for Polish fonts.
• Game camera collision has been improved so that there should be fewer instances of it cutting through objects or sticking out of the scene.
• The majority of videos in Home will now start playing more quickly (before they have been fully downloaded).
• The anti-aliasing has been improved.  This should mean higher quality shadows and a slightly better framerate.
• General optimisations to improve performance and framerate.
• Log in times have been improved once more.
• You can now zoom into screens while seated.
• The shadows and lighting in the Harbour Studio apartment have been improved.
• The club menus have been simplified and made easier to use.

Character Labels

• There are extra options in the Menu Pad and Home Safe Screen for setting preferences as to how much of the new character labels you want to see.

Cross Game Invites

• Home now fully supports cross game invites.
• If one of your friends is online but not in Home you can use the Menu Pad or Navigator friend list to invite them to join you.
• When the friend accepts the invitation they will automatically load Home and be transported to your location.

Loading Screen

• The loading screen has been simplified.
• Helpful tips are displayed while you are loading.

General

• Access to Home is now restricted by parental control level (set on the console) as well as age (set on the PSN account) in each region.
• The audio system has been optimised and improved.
• Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound is now correctly supported.
• Added support for Polish fonts.
• Game camera collision has been improved so that there should be fewer instances of it cutting through objects or sticking out of the scene.
• The majority of videos in Home will now start playing more quickly (before they have been fully downloaded).
• The anti-aliasing has been improved.  This should mean higher quality shadows and a slightly better framerate.
• General optimisations to improve performance and framerate.
• Log in times have been improved once more.
• You can now zoom into screens while seated.
• The shadows and lighting in the Harbour Studio apartment have been improved.
• The club menus have been simplified and made easier to use.

Bug Fixes

• System and network stability has been improved.

Harbour Studio Apartment

• Added some dynamic lights to the Harbour Studio apartment which can be turned on and off with a switch by the door.

Just a little reminder before you apply the client update 1.4, you'll have to wait for the orange light to stop flashing on your PS3 before commencing the patching process. Otherwise your PS3 will reboot and you will have to start over.

Via [US PlayStation Blog]

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