This isn't about me, and I feel like if I answer, people are going to think I'm trying to spin something positively just because I like PS3.  So I don't want to answer since I'm going to be defending my opinion.

Downloaded it yesterday. My thoughts - Useless unless you plan on talking to alot of your friends.

New Dashboard is free. Everybody can get the update, even when they have never played a game or never used any kind of gold subscription.

You can use the marketplace, watch movies, play music, view pictures, add friends, view your achievements, play demos, play Arcade games, use the Windows Media Center, get news and install games to the HDD for FREE

You're paying for a license, not for the content. The content is free for the consumer. In many countries, you don't need to buy a license at all.

Just like you pay for a PS3 which includes a license to use Home. The content of Home is free for the consumer.

 Pardon me for being so dumb XD.

You obviously haven't read the official Sony response.

The C-931 error when signing in is due to the High Demand for this revolutionary service. They are trying to ease this but say errors may occur for a short time. (This is basically what the statement said)

So........I'm right

Well, in America, we pay for the channels we want, and pay for the premuim channels too.  We also pay to rent the set boxes so that we can watch the channels.  Unlike PS3 where you pay for the content you want (i.e.: games), in TV you get tons of content you don't want.  Completely, different.  Use a different analogy.

By and large, the criticism seems constructive to me. They pinpoint specific problems such as the lack of interesting things to do, the annoyances of having to wait to play mini-games, and probably more things that I don't remember because I'm not that interested in reading about it.

Not quite, over the air broadcast require no user fees. And it's too bad you don't know what Hulu is, because it's an awesome service.

it's a great service, but people that go on it are just weird.
i can see home expanding and become something special, but people in this world always have to act retarded and that makes me not want to go on home.

Yes home is dumb is constructive. Because it lets sony know that the majority of people simply think it was a huge waste of time and money and not to do it again.

Your incessant defence of everything Sony is getting silly DMJ. They are paid to evaluate home, because it's free they should say it's brilliant? No. They are paid to tell people whether an experience is worthwhile or not. While home is free, using it still takes time. They are telling people it is not worth that time you would put into it.

Home is just a bad idea. Remove all the rubbish about accessing videos through it etc etc. 3d interfaces don't work. Instead it should have been something like animal crossing where it is a social space and a game. Not a bad 3d menu interface and a social space.

Oh and it isn't even in the slighest the same as getting free money. Free money would let you do whatever you want with it. Home requires an investment of time. It's more akin to getting a free gift, which is wrapped up so elaborately it takes a week to unwrap, then it's just a pack of chewing gum. Sure it was free but the time spent getting it was wasted.

It's why companies can do things like offer so many free drinks or whatever in contests, because often the process of obtaining the item is so much hassle it outweighs getting the free thing.

Why have Sony decided to make a social space and a menu system in one? Watching movies, buying goods etc are all done much easier through other methods. Why must you wait to play the free games in it? It's clear that home is really a way that they have thought they can have people in menu's for longer and so gain more advertising revenue.