Originally posted by Blake Peters:
Originally posted by Patches:
[b] My brother's and sister's is a panasonic and so is my mum's. But there's don't seem as "high-tech". But lately my Playstation hasn't played any DVD's
It's not the laser actually, it's a mechanical problem. One of the counterweights that has to do with reading the blue disks is fucked up, apparently this is actually a pretty standard problem according to my local GameStop and many websites. There are two things you can do:
1.) Send it back to Sony for a free fix (though of course you'll have to pay for insured shipping as well as have to wait a long time to get it back.
2.) Use my "tape" trick. Some people claim if you put pieces of scotch tape on the disc, it will minutely affect the weight of the disc enough to make the player read it, but it doesn't work. What I did is take two pieces of scotch tape and place them over the center hole of my blue discs, leaving about a 1/4 inch gap between them. When the little doohicky that spins the disk drops down, it hits the tape, and the force of friction causes it to spin correctly.
I'd probably send it off if I didn't only have two "blue disk" games. It's a quick enough solution for me.
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Oh yeah, my DVD player hits that part of the DVD fine now. I just think they get confused every once in awhile. For instance: I just bought Coming to America on DVD recently cause my VHS-taped-off-the-TV is shot, so I spent $9.99. Halfway through, the player got funky and claimed it couldn't read the disk. I eject it, no scratches, but I clean it anyways. Badabing, no problem. They are just not as reliable as VHS's are/were, and we have to (I guess) sacrifice effieciency and effectiveness for the supreme quality and the overall theatre-esque experience that is Digital Video Discs.
