Sony PlayStation 3 Blu-ray Disc Remote
| 431 of 437 people found the following review helpful:  I approve this remote control, By = Fun: Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: Sony PlayStation 3 Blu-ray Disc Remote (Video Game) I did not think I needed yet another remote control because I thought the six-axis had everything it needed for movie playing on the PS3 and, yet, I bought one. There were 2 initial reasons: - my wife was missing a 'magic wand' shaped remote for playing movies - Amazon had it at a great price in one of them lightning deals I ended up using it myself and, in fact, using it for more than just movie playing - see below. But, let's do a quick inventory of features: = It's blue-tooth enabled and, therefore, it's not taking any ports on your PS3. This is probably important for anyone who has a "2-USB ports console". = It's wand-shaped, allowing the non-gamers to control their movie-watching activities while holding a familiar-shaped device in their hand. = It maps ALL the six-axis buttons and performs everything a six-axis would do, except for the joystick features of R3 and L3 (but you do have the push-down or 'click'... Read more 220 of 268 people found the following review helpful:  Great Start but Missing Some Features, = Fun: This review is from: Sony PlayStation 3 Blu-ray Disc Remote (Video Game) Most PS3 owners enjoy not only the gaming abilities of their system, but also the built in Blu-Ray DVD player. The Sony remote control accessory lets you play those movies with great ease. The remote combines the regular buttons of our other DVD players with the funky look of the PS3. You have a red, green, blue and yellow button - labelled with their color names! You also get a circle, X, square and triangle to do a few things like brinigng up the options and back choices. The main buttons - play, stop, forward, back - are laid out reasonably nicely at the bottom of the remote with large buttons. There are small buttons up on top for the number keys, and a very tiny eject button. Missing completely is a power button!! You have to hit the PS button in the center and go through the regular PS3 menus to get the power to turn off. In fact, while I was writing this review, I accidentally hit a button on the remote and the PS3 turned on. We were... Read more 269 of 331 people found the following review helpful:  "Stop" Button Should Be Labeled "Ruin My Evening", = Fun: Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: Sony PlayStation 3 Blu-ray Disc Remote (Video Game) If you want to pause your movie, you hit "Pause". If you want to start your movie again, you hit "Play". But between the "Pause" and "Play" buttons is "Stop". Here Be Dragons. "Stop" means it. "Stop" doesn't just stop the video from playing, it quits out of the Blu-Ray player and returns you all the way to the root PS3 menu. To start watching your disk again you need to select the Blu-Ray disk again, wait for it to boot up, wade through whatever previews and coming attractions are on the disk, re-enable the correct subtitles and menu settings, wait for the various FBI and MPAA warnings, locate the place where it stopped playing, and then resume watching. Hitting "Stop" whether you wanted to or not means you're going to spend at least the next five minutes not watching your movie. The "Stop" button is so big and so centrally located that I can't count the number of times I've hit it in error, either by poking at "Pause" or "Play" in my darkened living room or... Read more |
