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Comment Bigger worries ahead (Score 1) 81

Meh, the OS being updated via online updates I can live with. What is really scary are the anecdotal reports that Blu-Ray discs are incredibly fragile. Seems there are two issues, one is that the data is stored very close to the surface of the disc, the other is that the laser has to be held very close to the disc as well. So far all the Blu-Ray owners are the technophiles who by nature treat even the discs with kid gloves, and even some of them have reported that a stray hair or fingerprint leads to a read error. With the data held so close to the surface of the disc, the real worry is scratching. Fingerprints can be wiped off (but imagine a read error 5 hours into a game without a recent save), but a slight scratch could mean death. I'm wondering if all the PS3 errors and restarts at the recent show were more to do with the discs being either dirty or scratched and producing read errors. If that is the case, if Blu-Ray discs are as fragile as some are reporting it to be, then the console has the potential to be the biggest tech disaster of the last decade. Once kids get their hands on games and start being casual with the disc handling then we'll soon hear about if it is true or not.

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