Xbox lasers

[seaneyb2003]

sped ur right i backed up my pro evo 3 and splinter cell 2 princo and the noise it made was bad! just as bad as rips do. The good thing is with xbox is that the drives are cheaper than the lasers for ps2 and that xbox ones are so easy 2 install. I have a samsung drive so im gonna be happy for a long time

[JiveTurkey]

Oh no I won't get mad Sped. I think the main purpose of this forum is to exchange ideas or info and if we all thought the same it wouldnt be any fun anyway. You made a statement and have some experience to support it and I'm more than happy to listen. I can't say I agree 100% but I will gladly listen to any intelligent argument.

I just find this very strange that the reflectivity of the media gets blamed for destroying lasers when I have worked on computers for many years and never heard this theory once. Even on this thread it seems the only "bad" lasers were found on PS2s? and Sony has had a reputation for questionable lasers.

Either way the bottom line is that the amount of money I have saved on media over the last 2 years could easily buy me a new Xbox if I have to. So doing the math it works out - compared to rumors that it *might* be bad for the machine.

[spedmetal]

Well thank you for that Jive, and I agree with you that with out disagreements the forum would be rather boring, so we agree to disagree . With that said, I know for a fact that PC drives have lasers that are optimized to read recordable media, like I said previously the PS2's laser wasn’t until recently.... was in fact made to be hard to read recordable media.

Now the Xbox has a DVD drive very similar to a PC drive as you all know, and this is why you may be having better luck with it. I also know that there are guys in the Xbox scene that remove the original drives with PC based drives that they have reworked to make compatible with the Xbox and they read recordable media without a hiccup! Now I only wish some one could come up with this same solution for the PS2.

[TylerDurden]

Now Jive, I guess you have a large number of xbox backups if it were to make it possible to purchase a new xbox, chip, and install. Then again you could install yourself and save a few bucks. Oh and if you happened to be unlucky and buy a new v1.6 xbox which hasnt been able to get modded yet then that would suck too. At least for a while.

In any case, I cannot recommend your brand of media for the sake of other people who do not wish to biannually purchase a new xbox for a dead laser. Others look up to these boards for quality information and I would hate to be the blame of anything less. So I must post in the best overall option.

Riteks seem to be the extremely reasonably priced and great quality so far (which is normally is not the usual situation).

So whenever someone posts that princo are problem free I have to remind them that, that is not always the case.



As for the excitement of the board, thats fine. Just follow my posts around the forums and youll be quite entertained.




Tyler!