I handled my past 360 with extreme care as I was already aware of the problems due to a Dutch customer care TV (Kassa) show pointed towards these issues with dozens of disgruntled 360 owners in the audience.
Still my Gears disc had minor scratches and sometimes stopped playing in the middle of the game. I was told to reboot the system. Luckily Blu-Ray discs don't scratch at all, the PS3's Blu-Ray drive also seems to be good at reading DVDs, never heard or experienced any problems, actually I read the drive is more capable of reading old damaged PS2 games and DVD movie discs than the PS2 is.







