Need a translation?? It means that for the first time ever I paid to watch a movie on my PlayStation 3 streamed over the Internet. I mentioned a few weeks back that Sony had opened a movie rental service on their PlayStation store and at the weekend I finally got around to testing it. As it was daytime, and in an attempt to keep Poppy quiet for a few minutes, I opted to rent Disney-Pixar’s Cars in Standard Definition (no HD version available) – rental of this movie was only £2.49. The process was very easy, just select the movie, choose to rent or buy (£11.99 to buy???? too much money in my opinion) then click the download button. After a couple of minutes I got the option to ‘play while downloading’. I left it about 20 minutes to download 15% before I started to play it, just to make sure, but in all honesty I could have clicked play straight away with no issues. Download time on my 3Mbps broadband connection was estimated at 105 minutes, and the film itself was just short of 2 hours long. Poppy’s attention span lasted 45 minutes so it was all irrelevant anyway.
In other news with thanks to my dad for his assistance, I also managed to put the Christmas lights up outside the house which wasn’t as straight forward as I had first intended. Due to various cable slicing incidents this involved a fair amount of re-soldering wires.. but they are up at last. Last night we met Santa as well. He made his annual trip around the village in the back of a pick-up while being followed by every resident capable of walking, and some who weren’t in their electric mobility scooters. Afterwards there were mince pies, mulled wine, and a photo opportunity with Santa (pictures to follow at a later date…).
And in the final news of this blog post, I received the result from my latest Open University course (the hellish exam I took in October) and I passed with a better score than expected giving me (just) a pretty decent overall result for the course. Now… in theory, this means that I am eligible for graduation with a BSc Open degree, but I’m plowing on with one more year of courses (including the two that I’m taking at the moment which finish in a couple of weeks) to gain the final 60 points required to get a BSc (Hons) Open degree. Nearly there then, only almost 10 years after most of my peers!
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Tags: Christmas, Movie Rentals, Playstation, Poppy
