Justin Wyatt

Netflix on XBox 360 Review

Posted by Justin under Personal, motorcycles, review, xbox360

Living in the dorms on a military base, I chose to just stick with the internet rather than getting hosed by the ONE cable provider we’re provided with on base, which has a monopoly so as you’d guess their service is absolutely horrible.

Simply because they know you have no other choice.

Now I do have an hdtv and it happens to have a VGA port so I can hook my laptop up to it. With all the video sites around now and NetFlix and it’s competitors offering viewing of entire movies on their web-sites I said no thanks to cable….

Then a while back while I was waiting god knows how long for my xbox 360 to get back from their repair depot. (Click Here to read that horror story) I had read about Netflix offering the ability to stream movies through xbox live. This sounded fantastic to me as that is what I primarily use netflix for since I’m not a big fan of waiting a day or two to get the dvd.

My XBox 360 Horror Story/Experience: UPDATE

Posted by Justin under Personal, review, xbox360

This is an update to my previous post on my experience with Microsoft XBox 360′s customer support

So, I finally recieved my Xbox 360 after a little more than 2 months.  I ended up having to go to UPS myself to pick it up because for some reason they could not get the address right for the SECOND time.  There was no issue when they sent the empty box for me to ship it to them the first time.  Yet when it came time to send me the replacement they simply could not get the address right.

The first time they forgot the apartment number, and it was sent back to their repair facility.  Then when it came back the second time with the

My XBox360 Horror Story/Experience

Posted by Justin under Personal, review, xbox360

This post has been updated you can reach the updated post by clicking this link.

Phone Rep: “No, You need a real address..”

Justin (Wyatt): “But, I do have a real address, it’s on a military base and your web application on xbox support won’t accept it?”

Rep: “Well, uh, you need a real address…”

Justin: “That is a REAL Address!”

Rep: “No, it’s not, uhm, you need a real address”

My thoughts:        (I think this guy clearly is a mental degenerate.)

Justin: “Well, can I speak with someone who’s not an idiot please?”

Rep:  “Well, sir there’s nothing we can do for you unless you have another address.”

Justin: “Well…sir, let me speak to your supervisor…”

(Insert another 2 hours worth of phone conversations over the course of about 10 phone calls)

Well, if you can’t tell from that I happen to unfortunately own a Microsoft Xbox 360 that I got for a bargain price off a friend a few months ago, that I cannot complain about.  However, just recently (a couple months ago now) I suffered the infamous “red ring of death” like so many of my fellow xbox owners.  I had just purchased Saints Row 2 and was amped to put it in and start playing.  I get to the loading new game screen and sdafdsccrsssssssssshhhhh, the xbox starts making all kinds of unnatural noises and freezes.

I start it up again to see to my not-so-surprised face that I have those god damn three red lights.

“Fuck.”

So I start checking on the XBox support web-site what I can do about this.  I find after putting in my