I've observed the following problems for well over a year and they haven't improved with any changes made because or or since Sony took over. While things are faster for awhile they always slip back to excessively slow like they are again today.

For a point of reference I'm on a fast broadband connection, averaging 1,700 megabits a second and iin spite of that the Sony Media forums are frequently very sluggish, slow to repond, and routinely result in weird server errors being reported with the site being dead for hours at a time week after week. In short not very professional or acceptable for a company the size of Sony.

Frequently (like right now) there are long unexplained delays in the iinitial forum page or any of thefolowing particular forum pages loading. How long? Anywhere from 20 seconds to a couple minutes or longer. For someone on fast broadband where most web pages load in a few seconds that's telling when the forum pages take anywhere from 10 to a 50 times or longer to load. Something is wrong with how your web pages are being served up. I suspect much of the problem has to do with the excessive scripting on the forum pages.

The long term solution would be to switch to canned forum software which by the way has many more user friendly features instead of the homebrew version now being used. While it may look "cute" and serve some corporate marketing purpose to have drop down menu choices at the top of the page to take you to the products section, support and all the rest having it all tied together surely frustrates the crap out of users sitting in front of their monitor waiting and wating and wating some more for a forum post to show up with nothing to see but a status bar that doesn't move or finally getting a page not found error or some cryptic error message that again shows something is wrong with the web server.