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[pricemeista33]

Well after reading all the havoc about Gears of War.  I'm starting to believe that there really is some type of glitch or malfunction with the DVD ROM on the 360.  I've played GOW many hours and now that my son has played for hours on different days.  The DVD ROM has definitley burned scratches into the game itself.  The scratches look like concentric circles or crop circles as one would say.  Yep, this was caused by overheating of the laser or some hardware malfunction or misfunction inside of the DVD ROM.  Maybe they should have went with BLUERAY like Sony did to prevent this down the line.  I still don't believe that the 360 was quite ready prior to it's release and now it's really showing!

[BoNg420]

maybe this is what is happening..

http://llamma.com/xb...c-Scratched.htm

look at the pictures

http://llamma.com/xb.../120205 063.jpg

[Vfreitas]

Well, my disc is now "unplayable". Not sure what happened, I keep my discs in shape, atleast I think I do. About a week ago I started to get hit with DDE's with GoW only. I've tested my DVD drive before, it does not scratch any of my other games. I did notice something odd though.



This is just a real bad representation. There's a faint white line through the middle of the shiny (bottom) part of the disc, that looks like that. At each end of the line they become a triangular shape, I just couldn't draw it up nicely. Any ideas or insight on what caused this problem, I'm confused.

[CattyKid]

I highly doubt it is the laser doing the scratching or, maybe more appropriately "etching," into the discs.  Rather it seems it would have to be a physical scratching of the disc by the machine, like we have seen when the machine is moved with a spinning disc inside.

[leo5111]

question is youre 360 laying down or standing??? if its standing for the love of god people stop standing em up sony and microsoft should have a bullet put in their head for encouraging people to stand em up dvd drives are not meant to sit like that go look at any computer theres youre answer allmost NO pc have drive standing up like that bad for drive bad for discs  

[Damademan3]

never heard of a laser burning into a disc. it had to be shifted during play.

[cyberg4]

I had that happen to me too, it looked like the metallic film that the data is on was peeling off of the plastic part of the disk starting from the center,  It gradually got larger, spiking further out until the disk was no longer readable.  I just took it back to the store I bought it from and asked for a replacement disk. they were fine with it.