What do you use to watch DVD/Blu rays?

[archbrix]

Conina said:

archbrix said:

I used to watch discs on my PS3 almost exclusively even after I had access to other players/PS4, but it just runs too hot (energy hog) and too loud for it to be practical now. Plus, the red laser went out on it so it does not play DVDs anymore. 

Is this a common problem of PS3 consoles? The red laser of my PS3 Fat also doesn't work anymore, so it doesn't read DVD movies or PS2 game discs.

From what I've heard, it's actually the blue laser that's more prone to failing.  Mine is the 80gb fat so it isn't PS2 compatible but DVDs are a no-go now.  To be fair though, it did survive a drop off of a table (not too far and onto a carpet, thankfully) that caused a piece of plastic on the front panel to pop off and still works fine otherwise.