Vidzone pester ads due to bugs, major update released

Posted Sep 15, 2009 at 7:10PM by Mabie A. Listed in: PS3 Tags: Europe, XMB
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Ben Creasey, Head of Production at VidZone, has issued an apology via the PlayStation Blog Europe for the "increasingly frequent and increasingly annoying amount of adverts in-between videos recently." Not only that, he also brings the good news that the VidZone team has come up with a major update that will make the service better.

First, on the incessant ads: he reassured that this was, in fact, not intentional on their part and that this is merely caused by a bug. "We would never overload you with adverts like this," he said, "and we apologize for any annoyance and also ask you to keep using the service (and tell your friends) as this has now been fixed."

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Now, to the update, the major improvements they included are the following:
  • Pre-roll advertising will be shown no more than once every 15 minutes (no more adverts after every video, guaranteed, he said)
  • 16:9 support, true full screen display
  • Virtual Keyboard support in Search
  • Faster and improved Search
  • Reduced Start-Up time
  • Normalize option for Audio volume on music videos
  • PSN presence now shows the music video being watched in VidZone on the XMB friends list
  • Support for PS Store purchases in Download Menu
  • Default Settings are now saved
  • Increased Cache
  • Help screens now available in Settings menu
  • Reordered Settings Menu
  • Bug fixes
Now that they've rolled out this update and fixed that ad problem, you're now free to go back enjoying VidZone on your PS3.



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Via PlayStation Blog Europe

 
 
 

Comments

by D3ATH_4N6EL - 2009-09-15 20:25:23
nice update...

how good news is that for us we can't even use this crap only certain parts of europe... thanks for the news qj! keep up the good work on letting us know how better and better it gets while we don't get to use it except those certain countries that can your awesome! (note the sarcasm..) seriously when will they bring vidzone to other places? i really wanna get to use this...

by jgr9 - 2009-09-16 01:09:49
:P

Sarcasm on the internetz? It doesn't exist. :P

by friggingreat - 2009-09-16 07:08:30
Network

Still cant access this through a wireless/wired network! Can only get in through with direct internet access! They need to sort that out first!

by GUNBEHINDTHESUN - 2009-09-16 23:59:59
I wish we had the service

here in the U.S.

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