PS2 Class Action Lawsuit Against DVD Player

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing us to this class action lawsuit against Sony regarding the Playstation 2's DVD player. You can fill in a form on the page to be informed of 'material developments' and assist the case, which alleges that the PS2's "..DVD player component suffers from a number of defects that prevents it from playing a wide-variety of DVD movies." Unfortunately, it seems the lawyers forgot to change the page title, which still reads 'Palm M130 Class Action Home Page'. Uhm, whoops.

Comments

Hmmm... I just used google to fix mine.

[JofCoRe]

I think I may have had the problem they are talking about... a few months back, my PS2 stopped reading any DVD movies. Just kept saying "disc read error". After running a cleaner thru it many times, and dissasembling and blowing out any dust, it still didn't work. So, I turned to the mecca of all answers: google. W/in a few minutes, I had found a solution. I don't think this is the exact same link that I found back then, but it has the same information. The portion that mattered to me was the laser voltage adjustment. A minor turn of the screw, and it's been working flawlessly ever since. (Although I was stumped for a little while until I realized I was turning the wrong screw and adjusting the CD voltage instead of DVD voltage -- doh!) Of course, doing so voids my warranty, but my PS2 was old enough by then to be out of the warranty anyway, so...

Much easier than lawsuits...

However, I do see the point of the lawsuit, considering that apparently Sony's position on this is that you should send or take your unit in for service, costing you around $100-$120...

Sony should just fess up and fix them for free when people have these problems, since it seems to be a widespread enough problem and not just "isolated incidents"...