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Playstation/Gaming Discussions => Gaming Discussion => Topic started by: Living-In-Clip on September 10, 2002, 09:34:46 AM
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I\'ve had the disc read error problems, but I came upon a new one today.
I put in Suspiria DVD today and went to play it. Worked fine up until chapter 12, I believe. After that the whole screen turned into jumbled green blocks. If I went to the main menu, the same thing happened. Same if I went back to chapters that previously worked. I was forced to reboot the PS2. I cleaned it yet again - same thing happened. So, I decided to try it in my Xbox, where it played perfectly (so far). Just curious if anyone else has had this problem and if so what movie did it happen on?
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hey great dario argento film!
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That it is, that it is.
;)
Great DVD , three disc collection (one disc is the Goblin soundtrack) and a bunch of extra material with it.
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Dario Argento?
Ain\'t the the father of Asia Argento, the Italian actress in xXx, who was also in some racy Italian soft core porn?
Not that I\'ve actually seen this porn, in question...
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You actually know the name of a porn actress? Damn, you\'re "hardcore" Ash.
:D
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As hard as it is to believe, I can name many porn actors and actresses but I DO NOT watch porn...
Nor do I search for it on the net...
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Maybe console is stuffed up. I would get it looked at. Mine has been working just fine, and it\'s actualy really good quality.
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SONY says: Time to buy your next PS2, sucker!!
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Do you have the latest DVD drivers?
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Yep. I took \'em off though, due to the fact once I installed \'em, I noticed certain movies would freeze and not play. Go figure.
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Looks like Sony needs to update their drivers again then.
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Mine works fine. I don\'t use it very often, though. I say, go get a better DVD player.
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Originally posted by Paul
SONY says: Time to buy your next PS2, sucker!!
What the hell is with you, man? It seems you\'ve been scarred for life by your malfunctioning PS2(assuming you ever actually owned one).
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Welcome to the land of broken PS2s. Join us, brother.
Please set your PS2 (whose sould has gone to a better place) on the pile and purchase a new PS2. You wouldn\'t want to miss all of the great games, would you? All your friends have bought their second PS2s, why don\'t you? Everyone is doing it, brother.
Seriously, get a real DVD player, playing DVDs on a PS2 is like asking Sony to press the button to specifically permanently malfunction your PS2 (you know they have that power!).
Eric Jacob
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Jacob: Ur absolutely right. The PS2 is already a flimsy piece of plastic and metal and yet people want to shorten it\'s life span by playing DVD on it.
Sonic2K: Don\'t worry. Your time will come when SONY demands you to buy your next PS2. Shall I reserve a place for you in the club?? LOL.
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Q: What\'s the newest version of the PS2 that has a tendancy to crap out? Are the newer ones more reliable?
I\'m just wondering because I intentionally waited to purchase one until I could stand no more... when the GT3/PS2 package came out.
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Mine is a launch model, so I can\'t really answer that question.
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What\'s wrong with you people?
Take better care of your stuff...
You know Sony makes reliable hardware.
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Originally posted by Paul
Jacob: Ur absolutely right. The PS2 is already a flimsy piece of plastic and metal and yet people want to shorten it\'s life span by playing DVD on it.
Sonic2K: Don\'t worry. Your time will come when SONY demands you to buy your next PS2. Shall I reserve a place for you in the club?? LOL.
I\'ve had my PS2 since launch, and I\'ve never had any problems with it at all. The important thing to remember about any piece of electronic equipment is that you need to keep it CLEAN for it to function properly. This, however, is probably too simple a concept for you to understand.
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The ps2 attracts lots of dust, hoovering the front grill and rear fan should help reduce malfunction.
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You guys act like a person with over 25 systems doesn\'t keep care of their stuff. My stuff is dust free and I treat it like gold.
I don\'t know how much further from the truth Ashford\'s statement can be about Sony, considering how when you work in retail, the amount of broken PS2s that come in is astonishing. Literally about 10 a week come in broken.
I got mine in January or February and in about December it started giving me problems, soon after the DVD stopped working, then I cashed in my Best Buy PRP on it. Does it offend you that PS2s are easily broken? I find no other reason why you would insult me. If it were just a people problem, we would be seeing XBox and GC come, too. But since I have worked there (11 months), I have only seen 2 XBoxes come back broken and 1 Gamecube.
Eric Jacob
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jacob: Sonic2k thinks just because he has never seen a broken PS2, it doesn\'t exist. If he never sees a white tiger, he\'ll insist it doesn\'t exist either.
Anybody who have EYES can browse through this forum and see how many people have problems with it. and this is just a small sample from the millions of users out there.
I\'ve been to a shop and they have one whole stack of broken PS2 in one corner all ready to send for repair. And I\'m not suprised.
But then again, Sonic2k will still refuse to believe it because he don\'t want to believe it because he\'s a fanboy with blind loyalty.
SUIT YOURSELF.
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Originally posted by Paul
jacob: Sonic2k thinks just because he has never seen a broken PS2, it doesn\'t exist. If he never sees a white tiger, he\'ll insist it doesn\'t exist either.
Anybody who have EYES can browse through this forum and see how many people have problems with it. and this is just a small sample from the millions of users out there.
I\'ve been to a shop and they have one whole stack of broken PS2 in one corner all ready to send for repair. And I\'m not suprised.
But then again, Sonic2k will still refuse to believe it because he don\'t want to believe it because he\'s a fanboy with blind loyalty.
SUIT YOURSELF.
Exactly where in my post did I deny that there was a problem with some peoples\' PS2s? What I take offense at is the contention that a malfunctioning PS2 is "broken", when in fact there is nothing mechanically wrong with it. Alot of people report that once they clean their PS2, the problem is corrected.
But I suppose these are isolated instances, yes? That we could make the assumption that most owners of malfunctioning PS2s are indepently wealthy and can afford to buy twice or more times.
C\'mon. You sound like one of those Xbox fanboys who says PS2 outsells xbox because you need to buy 2 or 3 of them. Nonsense.
And how exactly am I a fanboy? I own all three consoles and play all of them. Just because I chose to state my opinion about one of them that makes me a fanboy? I don\'t think so.
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You email Sony and tell them you are having a problem with your PS2, that it doesn\'t read discs anymore, and after you tell them you have cleaned it, they will admit to them having a problem with broken PS2s and will fix it for free. I believe someone on this very website had an experience VERY close to that.
PS2s were made like crap. I don\'t know if they have since fixed the problem, because the new models have only been out since May.
Eric Jacob
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you also have to take into consideration the PS2 to xbox, GC sales ratio when comparing defective units
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Also remember that people have had their PS2\'s for longer than the other 2, and likely used them for longer periods over a set amount of time. Mines been known to be left on for a month at a time, and still no problem from the first batch PS2.
Lets see how many of the other 2 come back in a years time or so relative to how many have been sold.
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There is no excuse for a $300 machine to malfunction after only a year or less.
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you think it only happens to PS2\'s
the things we buy are designed to break, no matter what it is
there\'s no excuse for a $60,000 mercedes to break down after 6 months, but it happens.
there\'s no excuse for a million dollar home to get a leaky roof after one week, but it happens
the companies buy parts from the lowest bidder dont forget
we abuse our possessions, thats human behaviour
every time we drop the controller, everytime we push the cd tray in to close it instead of pushing the button, everytime we smoke in the room, etc....
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We also tend to blame the system, not ourselves. Were jackasses like that. :)
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Exactly, there is NO excuse for a pricey product to break down so easily, not just PS2\'s.
And when a problem is so widespread as this, its more likely the manufacturer than the user.
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I tend to agree with Ashford. When problems keep occuring and the problem seems so wide spread that 1 in 5 people have it, there is something wrong. However, when both generations of the product have the same exact problems or something similar, then there is almost certainly a manufactoring problem.
In my humble opinion, Sony needs to face up to the problem and start working on quality control.