Is The PS3 Better At Playing Scratched Discs?
After nearly a month of news that continuously made the PS3 look like crap, a beacon of light has appeared. Granted, it’s some rather inconsequential good news, but I think Sony should take what they can get.
It’s looking like, of the next-gen consoles, the PS3 might have a more robust DVD-playing capability than that of its Xbox 360 opposition. According to ArsTechnica:
We put a movie into the 360 and started watching Bob the Builder save Christmas. Of course, after a few minutes it jammed up and gave me the “OMG THE DISC WON’T PLAY” achievement notification that the 360 pops up when your disc has a scratch or two on it.
Frickin’ discs from the library. It’s like they let just anyone check ‘em out.
So on a lark I moved the disc over to the PS3, and to my surprise it played fine. The rest of the movies did as well. All the discs that the 360 choked on, the PS3 played without a problem.
I seem to recall similar results between my PS2 and Xbox, largely due to the fact that the Xbox was built with a really crappy DVD drive while Sony had put some quality equipment into their console. If anyone knows for sure, I’d like to get a comparison between the two consoles’ optical drives before I start spouting theories like that conspiracy nut who lives in the dumpster next to my building.
Does the PS3 have a higher tolerance for scratched discs? [ArsTechnica]
Boy of Tomorrow
Posted to on 11 December 2006
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Sony has always made quality electronics. It turns out that this generation they’re selling something I have no interest in buying, but I’m sure it’s built well.
(For that price, it better be.)
K
I kind of have the opposite situation with the brands. My 360 plays all the DVDs that my Sony DVD player can’t seem to manage (even though there are NO VISIBLE SCRATCHES!!). But I have no PS3 to compare against 360.
Wait a sec. I thought the PS3 could only play Blu-Ray discs. I didn’t think it could play normal DVDs.
Hehe mudd, google are your friend.
http://www.blu-ray.com/faq/#bluray_backwards_compatible
They should totally have a real achievement for “OMG THE DISC WON’T PLAY”.
The PS2 had a higher tolerance to scratches than the XBOX (at least in my experience), so I wouldn’t be surprised if that carries over to the next gen.
(As a former library employee… don’t even get me started on the appauling situation with library discs. ::grumblegrumble::)
I almost fell off my chair when I read about “Sony puts quality stuff in PS2”. I own my fourth PS2 thanks to 2 broken DVD drives and another error.
The DVD drives are slow and mine doesn’t read scratched discs too well, also the MPEG2-chip in the PS2 is so lousy I thought my component cables were broken.
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On your post: I guess you’re just lucky that the PS3 seems to have a higher tolerance for disc surface anomalies – good for you, but I don’t believe that’s the norm, maybe the DVD drive in your Xbox 360 isn’t a very good one (read on e of the first Xbox 360 batches?).