The Playstation 3 Interface.

The main graphical interface of the PlayStation 3 is known as the Xross Media Bar (XMB)

, pronounced as 'Cross Media Bar'. The interface is based on the XMB that was developed for the PlayStation Portable.

Sony also hit upon an innovative way to make XMB wallpaper vibrant : the background of XMB changes its color on the 15th and 24th of each month. While the brightness of the color changes its shade throughout the day. Of course, users can always select a background color and shade and make it permanent, or use an image stored on their hard disk as the permanent wallpaper.

The XMB is fully controlled by the SixAxis or the DualShock 3, and uses ten main categories to start off with: users, settings, photo, Music, Video, Game, Network, PlayStation Network, PlayStation Home and Friends. If you have the PlayTV tuner add-on installed, another option called 'TV' shows up as well.

This menu can be operated using the left and right keys on the navigational pad of the controller, with a pause upon any of the ten categories opening up a drop-down list of tasks you can perform in that category. To select an item, press X, while to return to the previous item, press O.

The PlayStation 3 includes the ability to store various master and secondary user profiles, manage and explore photos with Photo Gallery or an ordinary musical/non-musical slideshow, rip audio CDs, rip iTunes AAC protected filer, play music and copy tracks to an attached storage device, play movies and video filer from the hard disk drive, an optional USB maps storage or Flash Card, or an optical disk. The 'Friends' menu allows email with emotions and attached pictures features and video chat which requires an optional webcam. The PlayStation Network menu allows online shopping through the PlayStation Store.

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