Archive for September 22nd, 2008

New Huge Blu-ray sale at Amazon?

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

There have been reports (and here too) that Amazon is doing a 3 for 2 deal on *all* Blu-ray movies. That’s right, all Blu-ray movies (or at least a very large list of them). Some people who have ordered but not given the discount have contacted Amazon customer support and received them (see the forum threads I linked to).

If you’ve ordered 3 or more titles in the last day or so, it might be worthwhile to contact Amazon to see if you can get the discount applied (can’t hurt). If you want to join in the fun now, use this link to get to the Amazon Blu-ray portal and start shopping (be warned though, the promotion is said to last until October 1st, but you are taking a risk if the discount doesn’t show up at checkout – contacting CS may bring you the discount or it may not).

Update: Amazon has corrected their “error”, and you can no longer join in on this free for all (well “1 free per 2 buys” for all). Apparently, they sent out the wrong link for their current 3 for 2 promotion, and instead of linking to the proper page, they linked to the main Amazon/Blu-ray page or something, so hence they had to take a loss and honor all Blu-ray titles for the 3-for-2 deal, not just the 30+ titles that it was originally supposed to cover. Hope you managed to bag a bargain or two while the fun still lasted.

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My PS3 just broke – Final

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Good news! My refurbished PS3 arrived today, and I’ve hooked it up and tested it to make sure it works. I even finished watching Memento, although I feel like I’m the one with the memory loss as I try to make sense of the story.

So the whole story (in the right order, of course) is that I sent in my PS3 on the 10th, Sony acknowledged that they received it a exactly week later. 2 days after that, on the 19th, I received an email from Sony that my PS3 was being sent out. And the PS3 arrived at my home on the 22nd, which is today. So overall, a 12 day turnaround, or basically 7 business days including today. Not bad. Again just to stress this has only been my experience, and at best, only applies to people in Australia. Some will receive their PS3 even quicker, while others will have to wait a lot longer.

So is firmware 2.42 to blame? The interesting thing is that the refurbished PS3 returned with firmware 2.41 installed. Why would Sony stop at 2.41, and not install 2.42 into the refurbished PS3, even though 2.42 has been available for nearly 2 month now. Then there’s the comment that a user called “ryan” posted in the blog comments for my original “My PS3 just broke” post, which suggests that Sony has confirmed 2.42 is to blame and that 2.5 will fix the problem. More on that if it’s true, and maybe this isn’t the final part of this story just yet…

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