Help needed: PS2 as DVD player - good investment?

[Delusional]

cool48 said:

Delusional said:
You're kidding using it as DVD player. You think Sony would allow you to watch burned formats? Nope. If you plan to use it as PS2 as well, you might as well get a $30 DVD player + the PS2. The extra $30 is worth it to avoid burning out your laser on the PS2.

I've been watching burned DVDs regularly on my fat PS2 for 4 years no problems.

 That's weird.  I got my PS2 on launch, returned it cuz it was scratching my games, and received the next version a month later but it totally does not read any burned formats at all.  Is your's the NTSC version?  Did you mod it?