Xbox lasers

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Originally Posted by JiveTurkey

Oh so it's common sense? and how exactly is common sense measured to ensure that this is fact instead of internet rumor?

Are you saying you are familiar with electronics but dont measure anything? I'm not really sure what your point is here?

If you've got proof then I'd love to see it. I honestly dont know how you can show it makes any respectable difference in the life of the laser considering the expected life of the unit and normal failure rates of the laser.

Ok here you go. Once upon a time back before I realised the crap princos are silly ol' me purchased some cheap princo media and backed up every single game I own to the princos. They where played ins a brand new V7 PS2 with a Sanyo laser for about 3 months (heavily by my kids) before I noticed some reading problems form the laser. Soon after that if wouldn’t read DVD-R media at all, and struggled with PS2 original DVD based games. I then had to adjust the laser for it to read, (little note here I did some measuring hmmm) but silly old me though like you...nahhh these discs are fine and kept using them. Well guess what after about another 2 months the laser went out all together.

I finally replaced the laser with a brand new laser and re-burned all my media to Ritek and it has been going good for over a year with out an adjustment or reading problems what so ever. Proof is in the pudding.

Now granted the Xbox has a much better type of laser, but the same principles apply here. This concept shouldn’t be hard to understand, if you have to strain your eyes to read small righting on dark colored paper day in and day out for mouths you’re going to go blind. Now put that same righting on bright colored paper with large righting and you will be good for years to come. This same analogy explains what will happen with your laser when using cheap media guaranteed! No back-up will be even close to the quality of stamped originals, they don’t design the lasers in our consoles to read recordable media. In fact in the early days of the PS2 (before the V9 and V10) Sony in fact made the lasers poorly just for the fact that they didn’t want the lasers to read recordable media. Now they have made the v9/v10 capable of reading recordable media so they claim, but this has opened a whole new can of worms with lasers frying in minutes and chips blowing up.

This is not the only proof I have but I'm tried of typing right now. If you want more just ask and I'll feed you some more.

Oh by the way don’t get mad at me just cuz I have something different to say then you