{"id":510,"date":"2008-10-22T17:31:35","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T07:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/?p=510"},"modified":"2008-10-22T17:31:35","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T07:31:35","slug":"my-ps3-just-broke-the-next-generation-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/2008\/10\/22\/my-ps3-just-broke-the-next-generation-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"My PS3 just broke: The Next Generation &#8211; Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the third series of &#8220;My PS3 just broke&#8221;. Unfortunately, for the third time in one and a half month, I have to sent in my PS3 to get it replaced by Sony tech support. PS3 number 1 had a faulty Blu-ray drive, PS3 number 2 had the controller\/remote drop-out problem and PS3 number 3 has the same problems as PS3 number 2 and also it refuses to restart after drop-outs (and even connecting the controller using the USB cable won&#8217;t help &#8211; it&#8217;s the exact same problem as described <a href=\"http:\/\/boardsus.playstation.com\/playstation\/board\/message?board.id=ps3&amp;thread.id=3132844\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>). So it&#8217;s off to Sony again to get yet another PS3. Great!<\/p>\n<p>For reference, here are the posts I&#8217;ve already made about this:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Permanent Link to My PS3 just broke - firmware 2.42 to blame?\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/2008\/09\/08\/my-ps3-just-broke-firmware-242-to-blame\/\">My PS3 just broke &#8211; firmware 2.42 to blame?<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Permanent Link to My PS3 just broke - Part 2\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/2008\/09\/10\/my-ps3-just-broke-part-2\/\">My PS3 just broke &#8211; Part 2<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Permanent Link to My PS3 just broke - Part 3\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/2008\/09\/18\/my-ps3-just-broke-part-3\/\">My PS3 just broke &#8211; Part 3<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Permanent Link to My PS3 just broke - Final\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/2008\/09\/22\/my-ps3-just-broke-final\/\">My PS3 just broke &#8211; Final<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Permanent Link to My PS3 just broke - Final (followup)\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/2008\/09\/27\/my-ps3-just-broke-final-followup\/\">My PS3 just broke &#8211; Final (followup)<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Permanent Link to My PS3 just broke - Redux\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/2008\/09\/29\/my-ps3-just-broke-redux\/\">My PS3 just broke &#8211; Redux<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Permanent Link to My PS3 just broke - Redux Part 2\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/2008\/10\/08\/my-ps3-just-broke-redux-part-2\/\">My PS3 just broke &#8211; Redux Part 2<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Permanent Link to My PS3 just broke - Redux Part 3\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/2008\/10\/20\/my-ps3-just-broke-redux-part-3\/\">My PS3 just broke &#8211; Redux Part 3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I explained everything to the Sony tech support gal that answered, and even she was baffled as to why I would receive two consoles, both with the same problems. Perhaps I&#8217;m just unlucky then, and apart from trying to get this new exchange expedited, nothing else could be done for me. I will give them one more chance to get me a fully working PS3, but after that, I will have to demand some special actions be taken (like, I don&#8217;t know, perhaps give me a PS3 that actually works or something outrageous like that).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sigh. Welcome to the third series of &#8220;My PS3 just broke&#8221;. Unfortunately, for the third time in one and a half month, I have to sent in my PS3 to get it replaced by Sony tech support. PS3 number 1 had a faulty Blu-ray drive, PS3 number 2 had the controller\/remote drop-out problem and PS3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ps3"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pzVMv-8e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":511,"href":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions\/511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}