PlayStation®3 General Discussion

[coolkid714]

 Hi i have had the following problems for around a month and a half now:

I can not play blu-ray disks or any other form. 

A number of people have had the same problem. I would like everyone with the same problem to add there names to this list of dead blu ray drives. More and more people have been complaining about this issue. Hopefully making sony realize the scale of this problem will help them to LISTEN!!

I want justice and i want it now!

[LeadChewer]

Same problem here - 40gb PS3 bought sometime around launch. It had always been in perfect working order until I upgraded from 2.80 > 3.01, and no it is not a coincidence. Let's hope they do something about this soon.

[N1R0]

PlayStation 3 60 GB (CECH-C04/B), purchased 27th October 2007

Blu Rays (movies and games) are detected, identified correctly, but can only be played for a short period (~5 to 10 minutes) before system freezes

DVDs and CDs can be played back without issues

Games on hard drive can be played back without issues

All other functionality works fine

System is absolutely clean, cleaned regularly + disc cleaner used occassionally

Firmware was only installed a few weeks after it was released; was not aware of issues at the time

Blu Ray drive started playing up almost immediately after firmware update; worked just fine all this time (huge movie buff)

[T-e-X]

come on guys lets keep it in one thread.. the one already made for this

[LeadChewer]

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T-e-X wrote:
come on guys lets keep it in one thread.. the one already made for this

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The more the merrier

[RoyBatty82]

After Firmware update 3.01 drive unable to read Blu-Ray discs.

Other than that PS3 works perfectly! 

Model CECHG03 - 40GB 'Fat' purchased December 2007.

At the end of the day Sony can say what the hell they like, it doesn't change the fact that a £300 product has failed after less than two years of fairly light use. Not good by any standards.

I assume Sony feel that if they ignore or stonewall those that have experienced this problem then we will eventually go away or cough up the cash for a fix or a new Playstation. I for one shall be writing to both Andrew House, President & CEO of Sony Somputer Entertainment Europe and Kazuo Hirai, President & Group CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc (just two of his many titles), and I will keep writing until I get a satisfactory response. I suggest others who have been effected do the same.

Peace

[daidojiseiko]

My 40 gig died after 3.01 update.  I used the Sales of Goods act 1979 at PC World and got a new Slim.  Holding onto the 40 gig just incase Sony decide they have messed up.

[OokieUSM]

Right here

[The-Chief_IRA]

same problem, 40Gb PS3. Was purchased about may 2008, worked amazingly until Firmware 3.01 was installed last week. Phoned and emailed several times and absolutly no one will help, and im not being robbed £120 for a refurbished one.. not when it isn't my fault anyway!

Message Edited by The-Chief_IRA on 29-10-2009 11:44 PM

[AliceWonders]

I brought home Tekken 6 and put it in to play. It asked me to update my system and I pressed circle because I didn't want to wait for the update. I wanted to play right away but it didn't let me, so I waited awhile for it to finish updating and restarting. After it was done, I couldn't find the disc icon anymore. I thought I took it out but I didn't so i tried restarting again and changing the disc autostart setting. It still didn't work. I tried to restore the default settings and that didn't work either. And I have been hearing that we have to pay a fee for a required mistake to fix it? I don't think so. There are games coming out soon and I have nothing better to do at home besides playing games when I'm free from work. Now that my ps3 can't read any discs at all (yes, i tested ps1,ps2,ps3, movie, music cd discs too), what am I going to do? We havn't even been informed of a solution in progress so I don't know if the next update will fix it or when that's going to happen.

And even if I do send in my ps3 for repair, I'm pretty sure there is still a chance that the problem will happen again to that same ps3. And I need that update to play the newer games that are coming out, just like Tekken 6.