| urz-truly said: "my PS2 after about 6 months of using it as a dvd player it started making funny noises" That's what i mean when i used my PS2 as a DVD Player 6-12 months down the track it started to make those weird sounds. I hope it doesn't happen to the PS3. |
This is why I haven't used the internal drive of my 360 as a movie player and kept my standalone DVD player in the cabinet. Optical drives have fairly small motors and the more you use them the higher your probability that you will experience a failure. For next-gen movies I have the 360 external HD-DVD drive, so I would be out $179 if I had to replace the mechanism.
You could look at this in a number of ways... if you don't watch movies often, then it's likely not going to have much of an effect. If you watch movies regularly, maybe the PS3s will cost $199 by the time your drive might fail and then who cares (unless that $199 model lacks features such as BC that your current model has, and that would mean more money to replace the unit). If you watch movies a lot, then perhaps you would be better off with a cheap standalone player.
Hear that Sony?? Don't make people replace a $400-$500 game console 1 year from now because you sell your standalone Blu-ray players for too darn much!
If it were me, I would go light on the Blu-ray movies until a cheap standalone blu-ray player could be had.
