Comments on: Netflix Workaround While PSN is Down

By: silverghost

silverghost — Thu, 12 May 2011 04:40:50 +0000

Okay so Until yesterday I was enjoying watching Netflix in the bedroom on my second ps3, but alas now it asks me to log in to ps3 network when I hit play no more work around for that ps3… running 2.02 Netflix on a ps3 slim… Not all hope is lost seems my 80 gb ps3 in the living room still works with Netflix via the workaround its using Netflix version 2.02 too though which I found odd.. Only difference between the two machine besides of course the age and partial backwards compatibility is ps3 in living room is directly plugged up via cat 6 cord to router other one is wireless. I would unplug and see if its connection, but I don’t want to lose Netflix on the last ps3 in the house to play it. Even went so far see if i could find a media server besides Playon (don’t want to pay 30 bucks for something i may use for two weeks) to stream netflix to my ps3 all to with no luck. Maybe if i had more time I could make ps3 media server stream netflix via windows media center or boxee, but no time to look at code and make it work.

By: hbbtgrl

hbbtgrl — Thu, 12 May 2011 00:53:02 +0000

@Jay I don’t get an error from Netflix. It just takes me in a never ending loop that says the PSN network is undergoing maintenance. (that is not the exact wording but you get the idea). Netflix comes up in the background as normal I can even move around and select movies or shows, however the whole time I am prompted to enter my PSN log in info and when I try it gives that same message.

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 12 May 2011 00:30:31 +0000

It is a partial fault of Netflix, as when Netflix asks you to confirm login details for their service (which sounds like is usually the case when it stops working), and since it can’t cross-verify your PSN identity with the PSN being down, it, then, locks you out. Other than that, as long as that Netflix prompt (not PSN prompt) doesn’t come up, it still works, so it’s not entirely a Sony problem.

After all, since it’s a third party device, Netflix wants to ensure that people are using their properly and not having anything exploited, hence why it might cross-verifies with PSN, as well as, most likely, XBox Live, and Wii’s network

By: hbbtgrl

hbbtgrl — Thu, 12 May 2011 00:24:41 +0000

This for sure isn’t a Netflix thing as my house has 2 PS3′s and one runs Netflix just fine, the other doesn’t and hasn’t since April 29th. It feels like Sony is robbing my household, since they are basically holding hostage a service that I pay for and I am not happy about it!

By: Michael T. Babcock

Michael T. Babcock — Mon, 09 May 2011 02:24:28 +0000

This doesn’t seem to be a Sony thing but a Netflix thing. I was working fine for the longest time too, then just Friday or so Netflix asked for my Netflix login data on the PS3. I re-entered it, and went to a movie I wanted to watch, the progress bar began to fill and it asked me to sign into the PSN. If i cancel, it re-requests over and over. If I let it go through, I get this new message from Netflix itself saying a PSN connection is required and kicks me out of the movie.