So I got the go ahead from my wife to get a PS3 tonite (that extra tax refund comes in handy, right?). Well I get to Gamestop and they happen to have a refurbished 60gig system, and a year warranty for 60 bones. So I think what the hell, never had a problem with a Sony console before. I get the console, Unreal Tournament, Component Cables, and Spiderman on BluRay.

I came home, hooked it up, turned it on…nothing. My TV says “No signal or Weak signal”. I fiddle around with it and get dashboard to pop up, sweet it’s ok! I go to the settings menu and choose “Set to default settings”. I immediatly recieve a scrambled screen and have to hard reboot the system. Not good. I turn the system back on, and it boots up fine. I fix my resolution, hook it up to the network and it all looks well and good.

I decide it’s time to see what this new-fangled Blu Ray looks like so I pop in the disc. SCRAMBLED SCREEN!!!! fd;slkfj;asdlkfja;sldkgj! !!! So I hard reboot again…nothing…again…nothing…>AGAING;sad;lg ;ajng;la jfks

NOTHING.

$496…for a paperweight. I called them. I’ll be returning this crap tomorrow for either (A) A guaranteed Metal Gear 80gig system or (B) A brand new 40g model.

The thing that makes me the most mad is I traded in my PS2 cause I thought I would have backwards compatablilty with this new PS3, and now I may end up with no BC at all. So needless to say, I’m a bit peeved.

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