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My PlayStation 2.5

So I ran into a bit of a snag with my PlayStation 3 last week when I went to pick up Iron Man only to discover my system would not play Blu-ray games or movies any longer. PlayStation 2 games and DVDs run just fine, but Blu-ray just poops out without even trying to read the disc. I had put off calling support in the same way I generally put off calling the doctor, hoping that whatever is wrong will just fix itself (Mike, your arm's fallen off - It'll get better!), but after wistfully browsing the Blu-ray movie aisle at a local retail establishment it was time to make the call.

After navigating the PlayStation support line's various menus and advertisements, I got on the line with a support specialist I will call Denise, mainly because I completely forgot to write down her real name. Denise had never encountered this particular issue before, so she put me on hold to research a bit in between restoring the system's default setting and performing a hard reset. The verdict? My poor little PS3 is dead.

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7:00 PM on Fri May 9 2008
By Mike Fahey
22,862 views, 175 comments

Latest by kftgr: "Can someone explain to me why this is considered news worthy, this sounds to me like something i would read in a forum or something...this is not what i come hear for." @kitt2112: "something" like a blog? I guess you're more »

rumor

The Truth Behind The Red Ring Of Death

Jake Metcalf over at 8Bit Joystick.com has recently posted an interview with an "individual who has worked on the Xbox 360 project for many years", who goes into explicit detail about the extremely high failure rate of Xbox 360 consoles since the console's launch in 2005. While normally we take such anonymous interviews with a grain of salt, you may remember Metcalf as the man who broke the story on Bungie leaving Microsoft a week before any official word was released. His source details everything from the various reasons for failure, and how much Microsoft knew about the system's instability before the product was shipped. If there's truth behind this, it's downright disturbing. More »

9:20 AM on Tue Jan 22 2008
By Mike Fahey
31,977 views, 234 comments

Latest by n/a: I was also dumbfounded by the response or lack of response - I should say ;-0) A friend and I was successfully able to find a work-around, which I posted on my blog: [3redlightfix-xbox360repairguide.blogspot.com] Please have a look & leave your comments Thanks more »