I use to play video games quite often until I realized how much time they waste. As a result, my PS3 has been stored away in my closet since 2010 . About a month ago I got a racing game called Forza as a gift and decided to take my PS3 out of retirement. However, when I hooked up my console there was no audio or video. I immediately thought it was my HdMI cable so I change the cable with a brand new one my brother had. Still no audio or video. I had no idea what else could be the problem.

As I do with most problems, I googled it and hundreds of posts appeared from people with the same problem. It turns out that PS3’s can return to factory settings which work with RCA cables even if you have always used HDMI. On these posts, they show you how to reset your PS3 so that it works with HDMI.

Here are the steps:

First, turn your TV on and make sure it is on HDMI output.

Second, turn the PS3 main power button on from the back of the PS3 and make sure it is in standby mode (solid red light).

Third, hold down the on button until you hear a single beep followed by two simultaneous beeps or for about 7 seconds. A prompt                  will appear on the screen telling you to connect your controller using the USB cable.

Fourth, press the PS button on your controller and out of the list of six options that will appear, select number 2 (Restore Default Settings).

After following these steps your PS3 should be working properly using HDMI.

It is amazing how far media has come in the past century. Mediums of media have gone from newspapers and radio to severely sophisticated forms that use coding with algorithms and other math based computer sciences. Lev Manovich has truly portrayed the journey that media has gone through with his five principles of new media. It truly is surprising to a person like myself, who is not familiar with coding and how media works, to read the Numerical Representation section of Manovich’s chapter. Never would I have thought that media consisted of numerical data that must go through processes such as digitization in order for it to be used by people like myself.

Another interesting principle of new media according to Manovich is Modularity. It is unique how basic media elements such as images, sounds, and shapes can be used in many forms. Although these essential elements are combined to make entire presentations of media through complex software, they still maintain their individuality. Modularity relates exactly to the idea of life and how many experiences and moments are all made possible through the compilations of smaller events.

I’ve found YouTube to be more like an addiction than an occasional luxury. It is such an excellent source of media, news, information, and so much more. The problem is, at least for me, it is impossible for me to only watch one video and then go back to what I was doing. I opened my computer with the intention of writing this blog, however, I couldn’t help myself but to spend about 50 minutes looking at YouTube videos before writing my first word.

YouTube is my resort for any problem I need a visual answer for. For instance, when I don’t know how to do a problem for my calculus homework, I immediately look up a tutorial of a similar problem someone has posted on YouTube. Before booking my snowboarding trip to Vermont this weekend, I watched GoPro videos of the trails at Okemo Resort that people had posted so that I knew what to expect. One of my favorite things about YouTube is that they list videos similar to the one you watch, this way you’ll always find videos that you’re interested in. This is probably the reason I spend so much time on YouTube.

As sad as it sounds, I actually feel I would be more productive during the day if YouTube didn’t exist. I’m sure this is also the case with most people concerning social networks other than YouTube.

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