Update (TV&Games)
Man I’m a lazy shit, why the hell do I keep forgetting to update this thing? It’s not like I don’t have anything to bitch about it’s just a lot harder than I thought to find time to actually work on it.
Well it looks like Sony has some problems with some models of the TV I bought, you can go online and enter your serial number to see if your TV is affected. Visit here to find out if your TV is affected (Canada only). I haven’t bothered to check my TV yet but it’s been running flawlessly so I’m pretty sure I’m okay.
I also found a place where you can rent 360 games online. http://www.GetGames.ca works pretty slick, probably the same as GameFly for the USA. My only complaints are that it takes nearly a week for the games to arrive. This sucks because you’re paying monthly but ¼ of the time you’re stuck waiting for the next game to arrive. The way it works is that you create a ‘queue’ of games you want to play and when you’re done playing one of the games you ship it back and the service mails you the next game in your ‘queue’. The problem I’ve seen is that they must not have a whole lot of titles ever in-stock at one time. The last game I shipped back (PDZ, I’ll get to a mini-review of it later) was replaced with a game that was WELL down on my list of games to play, almost the bottom (Tony Hawk : American Wasteland). That means that the 5-6 titles I had above Tony Hawk were all out, every single one of them, every single copy. The DVDs look a bit beat up too though I haven’t had any problems playing them yet but it worries me that someday I’ll get an email saying that I scratched one of their copies to shit. Anyway I’ll stick with GetGames for a while. I know there is another rental site that I could use but for now GetGames hasn’t given me a reason to switch.
On the topic of game rentals, it sort of gives me mixed feelings. On one hand I want to support game developers by buying their games but on the other hand there are a lot of games that I’m not interested in owning but want to try anyway. I’m going to try and use game rentals as a way to see if the game is worth buying. Dunno if that will really work (will I really rent and play a game then return it and run out to buy the game?) but it’s the cheapest solution right now and gives me a chance to play a lot of different games for cheap.
Well it looks like Sony has some problems with some models of the TV I bought, you can go online and enter your serial number to see if your TV is affected. Visit here to find out if your TV is affected (Canada only). I haven’t bothered to check my TV yet but it’s been running flawlessly so I’m pretty sure I’m okay.
I also found a place where you can rent 360 games online. http://www.GetGames.ca works pretty slick, probably the same as GameFly for the USA. My only complaints are that it takes nearly a week for the games to arrive. This sucks because you’re paying monthly but ¼ of the time you’re stuck waiting for the next game to arrive. The way it works is that you create a ‘queue’ of games you want to play and when you’re done playing one of the games you ship it back and the service mails you the next game in your ‘queue’. The problem I’ve seen is that they must not have a whole lot of titles ever in-stock at one time. The last game I shipped back (PDZ, I’ll get to a mini-review of it later) was replaced with a game that was WELL down on my list of games to play, almost the bottom (Tony Hawk : American Wasteland). That means that the 5-6 titles I had above Tony Hawk were all out, every single one of them, every single copy. The DVDs look a bit beat up too though I haven’t had any problems playing them yet but it worries me that someday I’ll get an email saying that I scratched one of their copies to shit. Anyway I’ll stick with GetGames for a while. I know there is another rental site that I could use but for now GetGames hasn’t given me a reason to switch.
On the topic of game rentals, it sort of gives me mixed feelings. On one hand I want to support game developers by buying their games but on the other hand there are a lot of games that I’m not interested in owning but want to try anyway. I’m going to try and use game rentals as a way to see if the game is worth buying. Dunno if that will really work (will I really rent and play a game then return it and run out to buy the game?) but it’s the cheapest solution right now and gives me a chance to play a lot of different games for cheap.
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