It’s very frustrating that the night on which, for the first time in months, I happen to want to use Netflix to watch something via my PS3 it’s also E3. And that during E3 Sony’s incapable of properly provisioning PSN. And so I can’t use F(*%TNV*$ Netflix.
Someone explain to me why these organizations deserve my money, when the single most important feature they advertise – availability – is the first feature they fail to provide in a pinch?
A Pun Involving Travel 
Know what makes for good availability? Distributed peer to peer networks. Someone should really work on making one of those for distributing TV and movies.
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I don’t know, that sounds a little crazy. I mean, who’d use something like that?
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Jeremy Frady woooosh
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Jeremy Frady absolutely, the user is definitely to blame in the scenario. #wtf
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Maybe ditch the ps3 for a device that just uses the ole’ tubes. A decade ago I would buy Sony products because they were of higher quality than average, not so much anymore. I do have a Sony media player that seems to work fine, and has lots of input/outputs on it, I’ve noted the newer model seems to be less well-equipped. I suppose the blu-ray/gaming/networked nature of the ps3 is alluring, but dealing with Sony doesn’t sound appealing to me.
I don’t really have trouble with Netflix, as I’ve taken the tactic to not watch shows that are still in production if at all possible. Even if I used bittorrent, the idea of not being able to watch the next episode whenever I feel like it just seems horrible to me now.
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http://www.theonion.com/video/sony-releases-new-stupid-piece-of-shit-that-doesnt,14309/
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So here’s the deal, Jeremy Frady. I bought a console so I could play video games on it. I do play games on it, and in that role it’s lovely. Said console is also the only netflix-capable device I have that has both high-quality video and audio outputs, so I generally prefer to stream to it directly rather than my laptop or my media machine. I do, in fact, have a media machine; It’s hooked up in various wonderful nerd cable ways, but it’s in another room because for the most part it streams without much hassle to… my console.
The fact is, though, that at this point in my life and career one computer is just about the most boring thing I can think of. I have a setup that I like, that generally works, and requires very little ongoing maintenance beyond standard mostly-automatic-by-this-point upgrades and backups to the headless server under my desk. I could have watched what I wanted to watch via nerd cable, but it was particularly annoying when Netflix was working fine but PSN was dead. Especially given that PSN is the only damned thing Sony’s supposed to even do anymore 🙂
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