What is the PS3 life expectancy when it's used for Blu-Ray

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rocketpig said:
Personally, I don't believe in stressing a console's life by extensively using it as an optical media player. The tasks required of it are different (constant reading at a consistent speed) than gaming and it seems to burn through drives. I killed both a PS2 and an Xbox this way (second systems in other rooms, should have just coughed up $100 for a DVD player at the time).

With that said, the PS3 seems to be holding up well as a media player. I personally wouldn't test it but that's just my opinion and I'm sure there are several others who will disagree.

Thank you sir.

 

This has been my main argument against using any of my consoles as a DVD player. My brother is always trying to "borrow" my PS2 to play DVD's and he doesn't understand why I object.

 

All electronics are built with a life expectancy.

 

When you play DVD's or Blu-Ray discs on them, you are using every part of the console constantly, the laser, the fans, the motor, the processor, and your constantly streaming it.

 

Games, I assume, are far less stringant on a console than are movies.

 

So, basically, why use up the life of my console playing movies, which are guarnteed to last for hours, when I could just buy another player specifically for this purpose.

 

It's not the issue of money, its the issue of having to send a console off, buy a new one, lose all my HD stuff, game saves, ect, and it's not something I want to bring closer to me because I was gonna play movies instead of play videogames on my videogame machine.

 

If game machines lasted forever, and weren't on a clock of death or malfunction, I could see using them for whatever old thing you wanted to do, and not worry about it.

 

...but not me. I'm obsessive-compulsive, and can't stand the thought of my 500 dollar game machine, which I love, breaking down for some reason, because my family wanted to watch Hidalgo on Blu-Ray.

 

Sorry, watch it on your time, not mine. I'm sternly against the use of gaming machines as DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-Ray players, always have been, and always will be.

 

If your PS3 breaks down, its the end of the world. If your blu-ray player breaks down, honestly, who cares if its gone for a month or two. I can live without it, but not without games.