Okay, so I turn on the TV, fire up the PS3, nothing.
That scared the crap out of me. It had only been about 7 months since we got it.
I filled out the warranty service information online for them to send me a box for me to ship it back. Turns out when I talked to the representative, it had not gone through. The online form was very buggy and the representative told me that it didn't work.
Tried calling customer service today. In fact, they were very nice people. Service was quick, and in fact, he walked me through hard resetting everything. It was nice not to hear an outsourced job. Not that I have anything against jobs out of the country, but it's still nice, you know? I guess Sony kinda cares.
Turns out, the PS3 is fine- on standard definition. The guy and I narrowed it down to perhaps the HD output of the machine itself or maybe the HD cable. I will call back tomorrow and ask if they can warranty the cable. And worst comes to worst, I send back the PS3.
Since I can fire it up on standard definition, can anyone tell me how I can back up the saved game data? Do I just stick in a thumb drive and copy everything over?
Perhaps it was Con Edison- for some odd reason we have been going through a flurry of 2 to 3 second power outages. We might have gone through 5 of them in the last month at various times of the day- one if which I was playing the PS3 and lost a good bit of Gran Turismo saved game data.
Too bad I can't claim anything from them though- they will only consider food and medicine.