Sony is not exactly known for offering quality drives in their consoles. Fact is there have been two class action cases brought against Sony for poor quality DVD drives in the PS2. Blu-Ray will be worst still as the DVD is pretty hard to mess up (unless your Sony and absolutely skimp on 2 cent materials). Blu-Ray needs three to four years in prioduction before it could be squeesed into a PS3.
The full size drives released by Sony for press purposes have not work properly, and the Blu-Ray player released by Samsung has not worked properly either. Look at the size of those stand alone drives and ask yourself, how will the cheap plastic drive sitting in the PS3 perform? Expect lots and lots of read errors.
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Sony is not exactly known for offering quality drives in their consoles. Fact is there have been two class action cases brought against Sony for poor quality DVD drives in the PS2. Blu-Ray will be worst still as the DVD is pretty hard to mess up (unless your Sony and absolutely skimp on 2 cent materials). Blu-Ray needs three to four years in prioduction before it could be squeesed into a PS3.
The full size drives released by Sony for press purposes have not work properly, and the Blu-Ray player released by Samsung has not worked properly either. Look at the size of those stand alone drives and ask yourself, how will the cheap plastic drive sitting in the PS3 perform? Expect lots and lots of read errors.