Re: Wal-mart offers Playstation 3 with 10 free movies

Gentlemen, THE PS2 WAS FAR FROM RELIABLE. Remember the Disc Read Error issues? The PS2's were famous for them and the kicker is Sony only gave you a 3 month warranty on the PS2 so if you got the disc read error after that, you had to pay $100 (at least in Canada it was $100) to fix it. Not only that, they wouldn't fix it, they would just give you another console that has already been fixed so you don't really know what condition it was in. I personally take very good care of my electronics so I would want the same unit back.

I personally followed this guide to fix two PS2's with Disc Read Errors...

Quote:
Dealing with PlayStation 2 disc read errors
By Rob Nelson | Published: November 09, 2003 - 08:20PM CT

http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/hardware/ps2.ars

I gotta say that link above worked like a charm. I was able to fix the Disc Read Errors easily so I was very thankful for that link.

For kicks, heres "The unofficial: Disc Read Error Guide" on Playstations own site...

http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/message?board.id=psx2&thread.id=1340259

EDIT: Spelling

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[Post edited by Falcon01 on Nov 24, 2007]

Ok I am like a few days late and a dollar short on my reply, but hey I had a busy weekend. To reply to Tony, did'nt the PS3 have a boat load of BUGS? I never had problem one with my X BOX 360, and it still outsells the PS3. And speaking of this 10 free movie deal. Wal Mart on the commercial said there were only 2 per store? WOW only 2 per store, that will up the total amount of Blu Ray, ummmm I mean PS3 players sold. (Note to SONY, you either want to advance with your PS3 Plastic Hunk of A Wonder Machine or you want to attempt to make Blu Ray a staple in everyones home ) Either way, SONY will lose and is already loosing the gaming war.

No Wal*mart said a minimum of 2 per store.

Hey Kucoloco and Falcon found this link for you, it's from a very happy 360 owner.



http://kotaku.com/gaming/xbox-360/another-one-bites-the-dust-281244.php

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[Post edited by tony1569 on Nov 25, 2007]

When a store says minimum that's retail speak for "that's all that we'll have" very rarely will a store have more then that. First of all Wal Mart and Other Retailers are only alloted a certain number of PS3's per store. So I wouldn't count on going to your local wal mart and them having like 50 PS3's it's just not going to happen.

Ah I'm a little late in this posting thread-but wanted to clear up a few things.
I took advantage of the PS3 10-BluRay in-store 5 mail-in movie deal- there were at least ~15 80 gig PS3's that were available. Heck stores have them overflowing due to the lack of game development and delays and price and (fill in the blank). I personally bought one mainly for the BluRay movies- I have owned my HD-DVD add on and love it--but I was missing out on quite a few movies exclusive to BluRay. My PS3 will be mainly used for BluRay- maybe a few exclusive games for the PS3 but any other games are for my XBOX360. PS3 may have the horsepower in it's CPU but the GPU sucks compared to the XBOX360's- which is way better. Also it seems that the game developers develop first on XBOX or PC then port over to the other consoles. I hear that the PS3 is a biotch to develop on (anyone read the news about the Orange Box problems?). And sony cutting the dev package price in half begging game studios to develop on thier platform.
It seems like the PS3 is doing well on the BluRay- but it seriously lacks exclusive games that are good. Well supposedly it will be around for 9 more years so that should be time enough for Sony to impress us with a few things.
HD-DVD or BluRay I am covered now- let the high def war rage on to keep studios offering great deals to consumers!