New store is just great for me. Now slowness and the new design is an improvement IMHO.

Lair is rubbish from the ground up. A controller patch is hardly going to turn it into a polished AAA title worth replaying! I swapped my copy ages ago and purchased Assassin's Creed, whilst far form perfect it is a better game.

Now it is interesting you mention AVI playback, because I watch a lot on my PS3. It seems to be ok for me SINCE the last firmware update, but there may be other reasons. I stream all of mine via CAT6 Gigabit Ethernet via a decent cisco catalyst switch. I used to transfer via 54g wireless.

Sorry to hear you are getting vexxed with it. I am nothing more than impressed with my purchase.

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