My PS3 having trouble reading discs.

Has anyone had this problem yet. Sometime I have to insert and eject the disc umpteen times before the PS3 reads it. I can see it trying to load, but then the load I con disappears and no disc shows up.

I can hardly see how this will be fixable by me. Just wondering if anyone else has had this happen. I didn't really want to go buy a new one today. Cause I'll do that before I give up my PS3 for a month to Sony :?

I'm having kinda the same trouble.

This is a refurb ps3, as my first ps3 got the YLoD just before christmas day. Too give Sony credit though, the machine was a month and a half over warranty and they gave me a refurb with 3 months warranty. Lucky they did as i have a feeling the machine is going to be sent back.

The problem started yesterday

Put a blu-ray disc game in, and the game disc icon wont show on the xmb.

Take the game out and put in a movie DVD or Playstation 2 game in and it works fine.

Eject disc and try a ps3 game in again and....wait a minute...the icon comes up! Woohoo!

Start the game and after the playstation 3 logo pops up....black screen....couple of flickers and the game goes back to the xmb screen with an error screen.....damn it.

The missus is out this afternoon to get a blu-ray lens cleaning disc which i still havent got much hope for, but its worth a go.

Does the ps3 have two lasers in the drive?, like a dvd and separate blu-ray laser?

I just cant understand why it just stopped working.

You would think there should be 2 lasers in the PS3, unless they can run Blu-Ray and DVD off the same one.. I'm not that technical.

Well now i'm completely stuffed. Just turned it on again to try different 'hopeful' methods, and now it's not even reading ANY format discs, so it's back to Sony.

Even more gutted as i had brought Killzone 2 yesterday also, only to get home and find out its not reading discs.

I think i must be cursed as the wife brought me LBP for christmas, only to find the machine having a fit on the 23rd Dec and getting the YLoD.

Coinicidence or not, COD5 was being played at the time of the first ps3 death and the last game i played before this bluray drive problem was a game i havent played for AGES......COD4!

Conspiracy?