PlayStation 3 firmware update 3.0 is truly a pile. Font size is ginormous on my 42" LCD (akin to going from 1024x768 to 640x480), icons are shilling for the PlayStation Network in every menu and there's a hideous update bar in the upper right-hand corner I can't figure out how to turn off. I wish I hadn't taken the plunge -- if you haven't, don't do it! Does anyone have solutions to mitigate this nightmare, which has turned the menus of my console and home theatre box into a janky-looking POS?
posted by porn in the woods on Sep 1, 2009 - 7 answers

Broken PS3 - ship it off for repairs or wait and see what the holidays bring? [more inside]
posted by yellowbinder on Aug 10, 2009 - 5 answers

So I just got a new (old) tv from my parents, and it's not fully co-operating with my Playstation 3. [more inside]
posted by yellowbinder on Mar 16, 2008 - 5 answers

Will Blu Ray make the modding of a PS3 that much harder? I seem to remember that it only took a few months after the original PlayStation and the PS2 came out, for people to figure out the way to mod them and make them play cracked games. Now, I'm far from an expert, but since every PS3 sold actually costs money to Sony it seems to me that once it becomes possible -- say, in the pring -- to mod the PS3 and people start sharing games like there's no tomorrow (the way it happened with the previous consoles) it could very well be a disaster for Sony. As I said I'm not an expert, though.
posted by matteo on Nov 24, 2006 - 31 answers