Smacking Sony’s Hand for a Terrible PS3 Browser

We’ve been watching Hulu on the browser for a while now, and the streaming is just sticking regardless of what we do. If we reset it, it seems to work fine. From an application development perspective, that sounds awfully like a memory leak of some sort where things just start chunking along after a time period. It’s always after about one single episode of Naruto:Shippuden.

As a test, my darling had tested it on her computer that actually is fed the same stream through Firefox via a similar wireless connection. No hops, skips, or jumps for three full episodes consecutively. This tells me that that the actual issue isn’t from Hulu, nor is it a bandwidth issue and it falls on the browser.

Now the PS3 browser has had its fair share of issues if you take a look at Google. So far, I’m on the system firmware 2.53 and I ran across an issue that we just can’t get over this problem in this household.

Let’s be honest. I’m as big of a Sony fanboy as any, but this is inexcusable if as a corporation you’re going to market your device as an all-in-one solution for entertainment and you cannot even get the basics of a browser working correctly. It’s not like there isn’t enough open source code to feed off of out there. Definitely a big no-no and don’t tell me that this device is made for anything else but gaming. I tried. It’s not working.

This is another place where the marketing outran the engineering. No problems though since you lost our confidence in your marketing abilities. We’ll just use the
PlayStation 3as a Blu-ray player and gaming device like it was supposed to be. Maybe the Wii will have better luck with the streaming.