PS3 BluRay Drive is broken.

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loves2splooge said:

Vetteman94 said:

loves2splooge said:
In the future don't play Blu-Ray movies on your PS3. A standalone Blu-Ray player can be bought for cheap these days anyway. Save your Blu-Ray drive for PS3 games only. This is the same sort of problem people had with their PS2. Using their PS2s to watch DVD movies instead of just getting a cheap standalone DVD player, which resulted in lots of people wearing out the PS2 laser and having to pay sony to replace the drive. I stopped using my PS2 to play DVDs after I heard about these issues. I use it strictly for gaming because of that.

Well to get a Blu-ray player to match tha capabilities of the PS3 you would need to shell out about $300-$350.  And thats not cheap.   Plus I have over 200 blu-ray movies and 67 blu-ray games,  and my PS3 drive is working fine.   So this is not an issue for the PS3

Just because you haven't run into any problems doesn't mean that the issue doesn't exist. That's like me saying disk read errors are not a common issue with the PS2 just because mine hasn't had any yet. Lots of people have had problems with their PS3's blu-ray drive to the point that there is a petiton out requesting that Sony extend the blu-ray drive warranty to 3 years. http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?PS3BRDW3 1080p blu-ray players can be bought for like $150. Maybe even less these days.

The biggest reason I plan on re-purchasing a PS3 is because of its Blu-Ray player.  I don't have a ton of money or much space left on my entertainment center.  So it would be a double loss if I had to purchase a PS3 and a stand alone Blu-Ray player.  It may suck if I had to replace the drive but I will have to take my chances.  Besides your out the money for the stand alone player anyway, you could just use that against the repair bill if you ever need it (doesn't make since to me).  Hopefully the newer ps3's have this problem less and less.