Sony has just announced on their blog that they released a new firmware update for PS3, the 2.42. The new update improves playback quality of software.
It is recommended to update your older firmware, because it does seem to work better and it doesn’t crash, at least it didn’t until now.

Playstation has just released a new firmware update, the 2.35. Unfortunately, Sony stated that it will only come with minor updates to improve stability of some games. I’m sure a lot of PS3 users expected it to fix the Grand Theft Auto IV issue, but this isn’t included in the 2.35 upgrade, so you probably [...]