Zoksnow is running a story entitled in such a way as to scare even our lawyers - and they're from Yorkshire - 'Playing Call Of Duty On Your PS3 Could Be Dangerous, At Least If It’s Made By Treyarch'.
In there sits a line that we'd like to test. Apparently a 'a former employee of Infinity Ward' told the site that:
"the way that Treyarch’s code is executed and organized causes the disc to spin too fast in the PS3 thus blowing the Blu Ray lens and that is what causes all those disc read errors."
That's right, a former Infinity Ward employee is dissing Treyarch coding and blaming it for destroying PS3s.
We're not technical and don't know about disc controllers, code execution from disc and all that stuff...
So, we'd like to offer any coder out there a challenge: write code that (a) makes a Blu-ray drive over-spin so that it dies (b) get that code through your own Q&A (c) get that code through Sony testing.
The prize? We'll buy you a beer. Hell, we'll buy you a beer and a chaser (a single).
Read the article here.
In there sits a line that we'd like to test. Apparently a 'a former employee of Infinity Ward' told the site that:
"the way that Treyarch’s code is executed and organized causes the disc to spin too fast in the PS3 thus blowing the Blu Ray lens and that is what causes all those disc read errors."
That's right, a former Infinity Ward employee is dissing Treyarch coding and blaming it for destroying PS3s.
We're not technical and don't know about disc controllers, code execution from disc and all that stuff...
So, we'd like to offer any coder out there a challenge: write code that (a) makes a Blu-ray drive over-spin so that it dies (b) get that code through your own Q&A (c) get that code through Sony testing.
The prize? We'll buy you a beer. Hell, we'll buy you a beer and a chaser (a single).
Read the article here.
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Rammstein_kills 5 Jul 2009 14:28
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I've swapped my PS3 twice due to disc read errors. At least the most recent has occured while playing COD4. The other time prior, I did have COD4, but dont recall if it went during gameplay or just overnight after playing. I do have to say that COD4 is "one" of my most played online games alongside KZ2 and BF Bad Co. To say that this is code that makes these results is not out of the realm of possibility. So with that I have these Last words....
"Let the Games Begin".. or not begin if they break ur PS3 BluRay Lens/Laser..
"Let the Games Begin".. or not begin if they break ur PS3 BluRay Lens/Laser..
PS3 slim 6 Jul 2009 12:18
2/2
Optical drives haven't been increasing in speed because eventually the plastic optical disks themselves warp, crack and blow apart into little pieces. Hi-speed footage of this is rather fascinating, and one reason I abandoned certain projects that required an outer rotational speed of 1/1000 the speed of light (pretty fast compared to these optical disks).
If a disk was oversped enough and for some reason a drive had a head close enough it could touch. The disk should have scratches on it. Stressed movement of the head, or over powered circuits could also do something, depending on mechanism, but that was not mentioned.
If a disk was oversped enough and for some reason a drive had a head close enough it could touch. The disk should have scratches on it. Stressed movement of the head, or over powered circuits could also do something, depending on mechanism, but that was not mentioned.