HDCP and a Modern Hate

I suppose I could also call this, "fuck Intel."

So, I spent a majority of my Saturday fixing a blu-ray drive with a busted eject tray. My word on the PS3 - 1) I was very grateful to receive this as a gift, because if I paid for it, I would want someone at Sony to bleed at least a quart of blood for all of the design flaws that were intentionally put in it, and 2) the attempts to engage Sony customer service went from bad to, I'm glad I got this as a gift, because I refuse to buy Sony products.

Where to begin? The blu ray drive eject tray broke. Mainly because it's built like shit. Rather than a standard CD-tray, it's got a fancy internal slide mechanism, so it "grabs" your disc. This nifty feature means that the tray has about 60 movable parts, including 18 cogs, 12 springs, 2 rollers, 2 spindles, 16 levers, and about 10 gears. For comparison, my cheap-ass Dell DVD/CDRW tray has 2 slides, 1 spindle, 1 gear, and 1 release lever. It still hasn't broken yet, and it's now 5 years old.

***This rant obviously got cut off due to more hardware problems. However, I feel the intense hatred for Sony in it demands it be posted.