Sorry, what's this about it only taking a few seconds? It takes fucking long, here, in the region of 20-30 seconds, and sometimes longer if I've collected trophies from various consoles (which happens frequently, as we have more 3 ps3s in this house, and I have my account synced on most of my mate's ps3s).

Still, I don't expect anything less from a console that actually takes about 2 minutes to load a friends list on log-on.

Well good to hear I'm not completely crazy.

they should have made trophies/achievments optional.

And by that I mean not made them integral in starting up a game.

It makes me wonder if games will even work 10 years in the future if there is no longer a server in place to store trophy data.  What will games synch with?  Or will people just forget that they spent all this money and play new games?

For once, I agree with Twesterm's rantings.

Seven cores, 3.2GHz, runs Heavy Rain and Uncharted 2, but can't automatically sync trophies. Pah.

That's probably because the storyline is so complicated, you'll forget it if you stop watching for five minutes.

I've never manually synced my trophies. Every once in awhile I compare with some of my friends, and the trophies sync. Problem Solved.

And if I don't compare trophies with friends?  That really doesn't solve anything.

I know I have a friends list on my PS3 since I occassionaly see them sign on, but I don't know who 90% of them actually are...

Oh, to answer the Play vs. play from beginning (at least I think this is what the side topic is)

If I exit a movie (not stop an exit), swap it out, play a different movie or game then put it back in and "play" then it picks up where it left off. If I play from beginning, well, it plays from the beginning.

If I stop the movie then exit, then both play from the beginning.

All I do is hit the power button on my Harmony Remote while the movie is playing. This holds down the PS button and then shuts off the system. I then start the system back up and it always plays from the beginning. On my DVD I do the same thing and it always plays where I left off.

Tweterm made a thread about this a while back. Him and I both have the same problem.

How big a trophy collector are you? If you really were, you would sync often. Yes, doing so is annoying but I don't see how a collector would not do it regularly, maybe it's just me not getting the full picture but whatever.