That is not a good sign. See if it reads PSone games. All PS3s are backwards compatible with PSone games. Or you could put in a CD and see if it reads that. If you have no luck, do some searching on Google for people that had similar problems. Mine played everything buy Blu-rays, so I replaced the Blu-ray laser. Your problem sounds more severe. Do a little research and see what you can find. Go over to the PS forums and see what they say.

Also, look to see if you get an error code. Lots of times you will get error codes when your system has a problem. You can then search the error code to see what the problem is. Good luck. I hope you can find a solution without having to buy a new one or get it repaired. If you have to do one of those, I would probably just buy a new slim. I have heard many people that got their PS3 repaired complained that it kept crapping out on them every few months.

I almost bought one, but they are way too small.

I would just buy a keyboard. I bought a logitech keyboard with IR reciever that plugs into a USB port on the front (they are way cheaper than a blutooth keyboard and work just as well, assuming you have an empty USB port to plug in the IR receiver). The keyboard is easy to use for chat and to surf the net. I would highly recommend going this route over the tiny wireless keypad.

See if it reads DVDs. If you have a system that is backwards compatible, see if it reads PS2 games. See if it reads PSone games. If it reads these other disks, the blu-ray laser is bad. If the only things it doesn't read are blu-rays, then you can swap out the laser. I swapped mine out a while back. I bought a refurbished laser online for about $70. Be forewarned, it can be a real pain in the neck to do yourself. I had a real problem with the tray loading discs after the fix. If you have done this before, you know what I mean. I still think it is worth it, because you will never get back YOUR PS3 from sony. You will lose all of your game saves.

I thought KZ2 was terrible. If you want a FPS, there are far better ones out there like Resistance, HL2, or any COD.

Fallout 3 on the other hand was one of the best games this generation, IMO. Between the two, its a no brainer Fall Out 3 all the way. Don't believe the glitch crap rumors. They were not nearly as bad as some would lead you to believe. The PS3 version played fine.

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TVs in general are lower quality with less pixel density than monitors. I have yet to find a TV that produces the same quality of color, contrast and brightness with similar pixel density as my 4 year old Dell LCD monitor. I've played the 360 on a 720p TV with VGA cables and it looked horrible and blurry and "pixelated". That is one reason i wont buy a "HDTV" - they all have low pixel density which means worse image quality than a computer monitor.

xionvalkyrie

This is wrong, a decent hdtv will look just as good or better you just have to put a lot more cash into it. Try hooking your pc up through a 52 inch 1080p tv and see how that looks, your graphics card will undoubtedly output a much better image than an xbox on any size screen (assuming its a good card and your drivers are up to date).

THat's because you guys have bad monitors. Get a good $1000+ 30'' and you'll see that no TV can come close in terms of viewing angles and color representation, as well as low input delay and no ghosting.

This is just wrong! There is no better display technology than the Pioneer Elite Kuro. Pioneer was so far ahead of the game that no one has yet to build a better display that they built three years ago. Heck your so called great monitor is an LCD. LCDs are vastly inferior to Plasma when it comes to contrast, viewing angles, motion resolution, accurate color reproduction, etc. Resolution as a whole is very low on the importance scale of buying a monitor or tv to begin with. Contrast ratios, accurate color reproduction, response times, etc. are far more important at giving you a superior picture.

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Normal people do not "sit very close" to their TVs. In fact, the advantage of having a relatively big TV is not having to "sit very close" to it.

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True, in fact, you won't really notice the difference between 720p and 1080p on screens smaller that about 50 inches....assuming you are not sitting on top of the sets. When viewing tv, blu-rays, and games, you just can't see much of difference. However, you would notice with computer applications such as super small text would look sharper.

Not sure how anyone can say anything other than Heavy Rain.

Followed by MGS4 and Uncharted 2.

I think these three games are the best of this generation. They were as close as to perfection as you can get in their given genres.

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Console gamers say 720p is enough and complaining about it is a superficial thing, well it's not cuz it's a big deal.

Lets get something straight first. You can have the biggest and the baddest TV around but the experience of playing upclose on a high quality PC monitor is unmatched and this is something only possible on powerful hardware which consoles dont possess. As long as you are playing on a screen bigger than 17", a resolution like 720p will not let you sit very close to the screen or else it'll become a pixelated mess, upscaling is not going to do the job either, when sitting close to a display the difference between native and upscaled image is day and night.

When your field of vision is almost completely occupied in the game and yet it looks crystal clear, that experience is simply unmatched and you cannot give an opinion about it without experiencing it. When you get used to it, trust me your comfy couch and 50" 1080p wont feel all that cool anymore...

Gambler_3

While I agree with your general point, that higher resolution in games is always better...I have a 40 inch HDTV and it certainly does not look like a pixelated mess is I get close. Sorry, but that is just a fact.

You do realize that you should not be sitting on top of a big screen, right? I am sure if you put your nose against the screen of your monitor, it would look a little pixelated too. But who would do that? Just like, who would sit on top of their 60 inch big screen?

Console gamers say 720p is enough and complaining about it is a superficial thing, well it's not cuz it's a big deal.

Lets get something straight first. You can have the biggest and the baddest TV around but the experience of playing upclose on a high quality PC monitor is unmatched and this is something only possible on powerful hardware which consoles dont possess. As long as you are playing on a screen bigger than 17", a resolution like 720p will not let you sit very close to the screen or else it'll become a pixelated mess, upscaling is not going to do the job either, when sitting close to a display the difference between native and upscaled image is day and night.

When your field of vision is almost completely occupied in the game and yet it looks crystal clear, that experience is simply unmatched and you cannot give an opinion about it without experiencing it. When you get used to it, trust me your comfy couch and 50" 1080p wont feel all that cool anymore...

Gambler_3

Actually, it is NO BIG DEAL. In fact, resolution is not even in the top three important criteria to look for in a tv. Your LCD (because they don't make plasmas in tiny 17 inch sizes) has a very low contrast,usually a much poorer color saturation, and most have much lower response times (4-6ms) which results in fast moving images blurring across the screen. My nice 60inch Pioneer Plasma has deep inky blacks, near perfect color saturation, perfect color accuracy, and it doesn't exhibit any motion blur at all.

According to the Imaging Science Foundation, a group that consults for home-theater manufacturers and trains professional video calibrators, the most important aspect of picture quality is contrast ratiothe second most important is color saturation, and the third is color accuracy. Resolution comes in fourth, despite being the most-cited HDTV specification. Source http://reviews.cnet.com/hdtv-resolution/?tag=moreResources.1

There is a reason why I prefer my big screen...It is because it has a BETTER PICTURE!

My laser went in my 20 gig a few months ago. The way you know it is the laser is that it could read and play dvds just fine. However, it would either not read any blu-ray game or movie or it would load up a bluray and then it would freeze withing a few minutes.

I decided to purchase a blu-ray laser and a new deck online for about $70. I would have sent it to Sony, but they will not ship your system back to you. They only guarantee that they will send you back a like system. I therefore would lose all of my game saves. I did not want to go through the hassle.

I swapped out the laser and deck fairly easily. However, I had a mother of a time getting the system to suck in the disks. I followed the directions online to a tee, but still had problems. It took me about six hours of fighting with the system (I must have torn it apart and rebuilt it about 40 times) to get it to work properly. The only problem is now it only will suck in a disk during the first ten seconds of it being on. It will not suck in a disk after you eject and place one in the slot. So now I have to turn my system off and power it back up to change disks. For me it is a small price to pay to not lose all of my data.

If you have patience and don't want to lose your data (as many games saves are copy right protected, there is no way to transfer the saves), I recommend getting a refurbished laser and deck and swapping it out.

As far as the gaming 911 and other third party repairs, I highly recommend going elsewhere. I looked into this very closely, as you get YOUR system back. However, the better business bureua had zillions of complaints. I wouldn't waste your time and money with that route. To many horrible stories of paying money and either never getting their system back or getting it back in worse shape then when they sent it in.