Can a cracked disc damage my PS3?

[ManBearPig]

I just rented a BR and theres a small crack in the inner ring. Assuming the disc doesnt shatter, could it damage my Blu-ray play/PS3 (or any player if its any cracked disc)? The disc is playing fine.

Never really thought of this before. If it wasnt a redbox disc and i could get a replacement really fast i wouldnt try it.

 

[lxskllr]

I wouldn't assume it wouldn't shatter. I'd be leery of using it.

 

[pontifex]

I just rented a BR and theres a small crack in the inner ring. Assuming the disc doesnt shatter, could it damage my Blu-ray play/PS3 (or any player if its any cracked disc)? The disc is playing fine.

Never really thought of this before. If it wasnt a redbox disc and i could get a replacement really fast i wouldnt try it.

I got a cracked dvd or blu-ray from netflix once and didn't realize it was cracked until i started to play it and it wouldn't play right. It was used in my PS3 and nothing happened. It was maybe a 3/4" crack but in a way that it wasn't easily noticeable.

 

[ManBearPig]

It's like maybe half a centimeter going through only part of only the inner ring. I AM leery of using it but wanna watch a damn movie!

 

[ManBearPig]

Well, I am still curious about the question, but i put it into my PS3 and got to the movie fine, everything was fine, but I pussed out and didnt feel like even taking the smallest risk of damaging my ps3 so i took it out. I shouldnt have put it in in the first place and listened to my inner nerd, but i think no damage was done.

 

[ManBearPig]

Bump

 

[Soundmanred]

There is no reasonable way this could damage your player.
Nothing will touch the crack while in the player to further damage it. If it's in the center, the clamping mechanism might, but that would reduce the chance, not increase it.
The disc does not touch the playing mechanism (laser).
The rotational speed would have to be much higher to increase the size of the crack enough for the disc to break.
The only way to further damage the disc would be to bend it, your player will not do anything of the sort.

 

[ManBearPig]

There is no reasonable way this could damage your player.
Nothing will touch the crack while in the player to further damage it. If it's in the center, the clamping mechanism might, but that would reduce the chance, not increase it.
The disc does not touch the playing mechanism (laser).
The rotational speed would have to be much higher to increase the size of the crack enough for the disc to break.
The only way to further damage the disc would be to bend it, your player will not do anything of the sort.

Thanks man! Some piece of mind. Although everything seems to be fine anyway and im just a nerd heh.

 

[imagoon]

There is no reasonable way this could damage your player.
Nothing will touch the crack while in the player to further damage it. If it's in the center, the clamping mechanism might, but that would reduce the chance, not increase it.
The disc does not touch the playing mechanism (laser).
The rotational speed would have to be much higher to increase the size of the crack enough for the disc to break.
The only way to further damage the disc would be to bend it, your player will not do anything of the sort.

I have had these disks shatter inside devices. Once cracked the crack can and will spread until the disk shatters inside a player. The DVD player no longer worked after wards until I opened it and cleaned out all the foil and disk shards. Nearly any IT guy can also tell you that the disks can and do shatter, even in players.

 

[brblx]

cracks discs can definately break. even UNCRACKED discs can break if they have other flaws, the things are spun pretty fast.

but that's tray-loading stuff. is the disc handled any differently in a slot loader? i would imagine since it still has to spin to the same speed somehow, the danger would be the same. unless maybe the laser setup is different...slot players do seem awful quiet.

 

[imagoon]

cracks discs can definately break. even UNCRACKED discs can break if they have other flaws, the things are spun pretty fast.

but that's tray-loading stuff. is the disc handled any differently in a slot loader? i would imagine since it still has to spin to the same speed somehow, the danger would be the same. unless maybe the laser setup is different...slot players do seem awful quiet.

The loading mechanism doesn't mean much. It still gets pulled in to the player, loaded on the spindle and spun.

 

[ManBearPig]

So what I'm really wondering is, if it DIDN'T break (so we can throw that type of damage out), could the crack itsself cause any damage to the laser?

 

[brblx]

The loading mechanism doesn't mean much. It still gets pulled in to the player, loaded on the spindle and spun.

that's what i figured. i was just thinking that it seems like most modern tray drives are loud and most modern slot drives are quiet.

doesn't blu-ray spin at a slower speed and use multiple lasers? maybe that's what i'm thinking of. ps3 def lacks the jetengine hum of my 360.

 

[imagoon]

So what I'm really wondering is, if it DIDN'T break (so we can throw that type of damage out), could the crack itsself cause any damage to the laser?

Depends on a lot of things. If it didn't explode, then the metal foil could start flaking off. If the laser is 'open air' then the flakes could get down in to the assembly and block the laser light, jam the lens assy or in some cases short the power controller. If the assembly is a sealed design then odds are much lower. Assuming 'nothing falls off the disk' then the crack just looks like media errors and may cause the movie to jump / fragment or the game files to fail to load.

 

[Oyeve]

I recall a dvd in a mac pro desktop literally blowing up. It sounded like a double-barrel shotgun going off. It wasnt the dvd tho, it was the drive. It had shorted out and literally spun at least 100000rpm. The workers nearby dropped to the floor thinking it was gunfire. I put in another disk to see if it would happen again and it did. KABOOM. I still have the drive and plan to use it again soon.

 

[ManBearPig]

Depends on a lot of things. If it didn't explode, then the metal foil could start flaking off. If the laser is 'open air' then the flakes could get down in to the assembly and block the laser light, jam the lens assy or in some cases short the power controller. If the assembly is a sealed design then odds are much lower. Assuming 'nothing falls off the disk' then the crack just looks like media errors and may cause the movie to jump / fragment or the game files to fail to load.

Pretty sure everything on the disc was intact, including no flaking. Guess i avoided disaster then. Everything seems fine, anyway. Thanks!

Also, lmao @ oyeve!