After 37 days of ownership (Played one game for 1/2 hour and watched about 3 blu-ray movies), the PS3 stopped reading discs. I was watching "We Own The Night" on Blu-ray and all of a sudden it froze. I went back to the main menu and tried to read the disc again and got a black screen. Powered down and up and no luck. Formatted no luck. What the heck is going on? Everyone praises these things as not failing and this thing failed much faster than my 360 (kinda sad to talk about benefits in the context of how often they fail). (SIGH) This thing is in mint condition...it's not really fair they'll replace it with a refurb. bacon333Lol, I kid you not I have exactly the same problem. I brought my PS3 late last month (March 09), it was sitting pretty next to my 360. I've used it for an impressive 4 hours (max). Whilst playing Little Big Planet, the screen went white, left it for 30 mins to sort itself (having experienced the red-ring of death 3 times on the 360).. It didn't sort itself so powered down using the button on the front of the machine. Turned the PS3 back on and hey presto - no disc's of any sort are being read (although I get the indicator in top-right when I put one in.) I've got the 80GB model, came with Killzone 2 (the box looked pretty). Now sitting in the 4.5 hr system restore queue hoping that it will fix my problem. I think it's hilarious though, my mates raved about the build quality of this console when I told them my 360 woes. The PS3 has crapped out on me in 4 hours playtime and was double the price of the xbox.
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