Agree on all the points but from what I've read, the first will never be possible because the PS3 activates essentially another OS when playing movies. Also, does your PS3 turn on when you press anything? If it does, that must be a setting because mine only turns on when the PS button is pressed.

I think those are all things that either are fixed or will be fixed eventually.

but you can turn your ps3 off if it's been inactive for a certain amount of time, I believe there's also a setting for turning on your ps3 with your controller only by hitting the ps button and I think at least 99% of blu-ray movies will stop and start where ever they were left. I know i've taken discs out put them back in days later and they start at the same place.

It might be depending on the movie but I don't know.

So what we're really saying is: Dear Sony, I wish you were better at creating intuitive and easily understandable menus.

Hell, can we just shoot that letter to all of Japan?

I remember when consumer electronics came with manuals you could read to find out stuff you needed to know.... none of this searching blindly malarky. The sad fact is (not sure about SONY's case) it's difficult getting any info from the xbox website about the functions of the xbox software/hardware. I know i couldn't find my issue on there and eventually someone happened to mention it in a thread here on GWJ.

You can setup the PS3 to turn itself off after a period of inactivity. And I can't find it in the settings myself, but I just double checked and the only controller button that turns on the system for me is the PS one.

There must be something during the manufacturing process of the discs that determines/prevents this, because it still seems like a crap shoot to me whether it starts where I left it off or not. Also, I've had a couple issues, always with Fox blu-rays, where I can't fast-forward or leave or really have access to anything if I'm watching a video in the special feature section. But I remember DVDs also having these weird issues at first too.

I was thinking of this thread more as a wishlist for the PS3 rather than a complaint of sort. Of course mine were annoyances but I thought people would say stuff like ''I wish you'd shell out the dough necessary to get a Final Fantasy 7 remake done on your platforms!''

Can the updates be less frequent and way faster?

/ducks

I can't for the life of me recall which movies remembered my progress and which didn't, but I do know that in both I, Robot and Max Payne (my tolerance for bad movies increases significantly in hi-def) that once I started a secondary "making of" video, manually turning off my PS3 or ejecting the disc were the only way to stop them if I didn't want to watch them the whole way through, which naturally I didn't. My fault for being curious about them in the first place, I guess.

On a side note, why in the Christ do so many of these movies start with an unskippable ad for "the power of Blu-ray"? If I'm watching one right now to begin with, clearly I'm not the audience you need to convince, idiot.

I've never had any issues with getting back to the menu from special features, nor can I remember ever having the unskippable ad problem on a Blu-Ray movie.

Curisouer and curiouser.

I've been watching a lot of Blu-Ray movies lately, some of them earlier releases, and even stuff that came out pretty much when Blu-Ray was new has been letting me skip what I want and resume when I want. I forced myself to finish Aeon Flux a few weeks ago. That released back when the format was still new and even less finalized than it is now I know I stopped it more than once and it always resumed from the dashboard just fine.

I didn't take time to explore special features though...

The biggest gripe that I have is the official remote. Every button on that bad boy definitely turns the console on, and I have a toddler with a remote control addiction (not mine, she just wandered in one day and we decided to keep her). I may have spent only 10 hours gaming on it in the last 3 months, but it has been on for at least 2 of those months.

Recent firmware updates have gotten quicker in my experience. I just turned the thing on to check for one after reading this thread and sure enough, there it was.

ah-HA! So THAT'S the culprit!

It is like having Comcast! I already have it and it seems like there is a Comcast ad in every commercial break (it flashes by as I am fast-forwarding on the DVR). I know they are trying to up sell some services to existing customers with their Triple Play thing, but they should sell those 5 minutes of commercial time to outside advertisers, and not raise the price for at least one year.

Are you talking about the Dualshock 3 controller? I have to press the PS button to get mine to turn on. None of the other buttons do it.

Yes, me too, it's pretty annoying. Especially as there's no dedicated off button on the remote. They bound fast forward to the triggers on the Dual Shock as well, IIRC, so unless you're really careful putting it down you can skip a bit of the movie.

Sony really don't get usability.

Dear sony, Please allow me to download Your films on XBL. Yeah, I know.