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Turkmenski

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Posted: Sun, 22nd May 2005 15:41 Post subject: [HARDWARE] Is it true that if playing gams burned on CDs it	Quick Quote Quote

I have heard that you if play Playstation 2 games burned on CD and watch divx movies, listen to mp3 on CD the laser (or better yet its optics) are bound to fail much sooner. Have there been any reports Playstation 2 or XBOX failing much sooner because of the use of burned CDs?

m2rock

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Posted: Sun, 22nd May 2005 15:50 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

With Ps2s it seems to be the case due to cheap stuff put in, your optical drive slowly dies and will stop being able to read what is on the disc. Have not heard so much about this on the xbox side which is not so suprising as well when playing copies of the hdd is so easy

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Turkmenski

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Posted: Sun, 22nd May 2005 16:02 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

But it wouldn't matter if that would be a burned CD or DVD, right? Isn't quality of CDs on average better then DVDs?

m2rock

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Posted: Sun, 22nd May 2005 17:07 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Some state that quality does matter, with CDs VS DVDs, the laser head has to move less on a dvd as each "line" contains more data,

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Steve-O 2004

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Posted: Sun, 22nd May 2005 18:34 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

well Ive been playing backups for a long time now (2 - 3 years) and my laser is still good George W Bush - '...more and more of our imports are coming from overseas.'

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m2rock

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Posted: Sun, 22nd May 2005 18:44 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Lucky you, my PS2 laser died. Hehehehe

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Jenni
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Posted: Sun, 22nd May 2005 19:21 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Put a hard drive into it. You don't need the laser then.

Jesus Juice

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Posted: Tue, 14th Jun 2005 22:00 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

a hard drive in ps2? i didn't know you could do that

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Jenni
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Posted: Tue, 14th Jun 2005 22:10 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

The old style ones you can. I have a 300gb drive in mine.

jonels
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Posted: Tue, 14th Jun 2005 22:37 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

trouble is a 300gb hard drive costs twice as much as a new ps2 I looked up "gormless" in the dictionary, it said "without gorm" .... so i looked up "gorm" but it wasn't there ????

Steve-O 2004

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Posted: Wed, 15th Jun 2005 11:47 Post subject:

jonels wrote:

trouble is a 300gb hard drive costs twice as much as a new ps2

Well put a 80gb in Wink

Also, Its Just RIPS on CDR's that Damage the Laser... Just check it out your self... Put a Game Rip in thats on CDR and Listen to the Lazer working its nuts off... Now put a DVDR in and listen how normal / quite it is..

Oh yea, a RIP is where a game taken from say 2GB and has all the movies and music etc ripped out to get it to fit on a CDR... And some rips are rips of DVD9 games made to fit on DVD5 disc...

So its mainly just CDR Rips that damage the laser Smile

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Jesus Juice

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Posted: Thu, 16th Jun 2005 02:19 Post subject:

jonels wrote:

trouble is a 300gb hard drive costs twice as much as a new ps2

they can't be that much can they?

how much is a ps2 nowadays?

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Jenni
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Posted: Thu, 16th Jun 2005 06:05 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Nah he's exagerating. New ps2 is £99 and a 300gb hdd is £133.

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