So I sit down last night to watch The Lookout
I believed that Sony still had the 90-day warranty on their products, which by my calculation according to the time I registered the system with them, would have been up exactly four days ago. Cue the beginning of a conspiracy theory developing in my brain. How in the hell is something that I haven't really used that much going to break a few days outside of its warranty? I soon found out that the warranty is actually a full year instead of 90-days. Whew!
I walked away for a few moments to grab a beer and settle down before I called Sony. I knew that they were going to have me do everything I had already done, plus something else that I have been unwilling to do up to this time. My system was shipped with a Firmware 1.50 and I have left it there in the hope that the homebrew scene would come alive soon.
At this point I knew I was going to have to send it in to be serviced and since I would be getting at least a FW 1.90 back, I decided to upgrade mine in the hopes that maybe it was a FW issue. This didn't work, so now I have a FW 1.90 PS3 sitting at home waiting for a box to show up from UPS so that I can ship it to Sony. I don't really like the idea of receiving a refurbished unit back from them, but the CSR assured me (LOL) that the unit I receive back will also be covered under that year warranty. I will post here with updates on how long this whole process is going to take.
