Playstation

Frustrating Holidays:
Our PlayStation™ 3 Slim and the
Clunk, Clunk Sound of Blu-ray Death

We Believed
in Better There are certain things we can live without during our holidays. This includes hardware defects of all kinds. On December 30^th which is after only 11 weeks of service, the blu-ray player inside our PlayStation™ 3 Slim ceased to function (permanently). The end could not have been more dramatic: We were just enjoying the final minutes of the Hongkong epic movie Red Cliff on blu-ray disc, when the picture froze up all of a sudden right before the ending credits. Any further attempt to play a game- or movie blu-ray disc on the video game console was futile. Instead, the PlayStation™ 3 Slim commented every inserted blu-ray disc with a Clunk, Clunk sound. Surprisingly, DVDs and CDs were still being played back without problems.

«Entertainment
your way»? Unfortunately, we cannot confirm that marketing slogan. We have hardly used our PS3™ which we had bought shortly after the launch in September. In summary, we were able to play about ten games and five (!) blu-ray movies during that time.
Many thanks, Sony Computer Entertainment!

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