So, I've been trying to watch a Blu-Ray movie I rented, "Night at the Museum". Every time I get about 20-30 seconds into the movie, the movie stops playback and just sits there. I can turn the PS3 off when this happens, but the movie will not play, even if I hit the fast forward button.

I thought maybe the disc was defective, so I went and grabbed my copy of "Saw III". I put it in, and sure enough, 20 seconds in, the movie stopped.

I have one last resort here, I think, and that is to wait an hour to see if maybe my PS3 was overheated. I will try to watch a Blu-Ray one more time and see what happens.

I do NOT want to already have to trade in my PS3 for another one.

Yeah, you're right. It wasn't overheated. I went back an hour later and tried to play the blu-ray again. It played for 32 seconds and then stopped.

When I originally bought my Ps3, I bought the in-store warranty for it, because I thought it would be easier to just go to the store and trade it in for a new system if it ever had a problem.

I did that today, so now I've got a new Ps3 here looking at me. I'm mad at his brother, so I might not even plug him in today. Take that you jerk .

Any ideas why my blu-ray functionality stopped working? I'd only had the ps3 since January. Could a firmware update have screwed it up? Or is folding with my PS3 hurting my PS3? The system gets mighty hot when it has been folding for a while. I have it in a location I feel is pretty aired out. It's sitting on top of my DVD player that barely gets used, so I don't know that I did anything wrong.

If something like this happens again, I will be very sad. It's hard to stand behind a system like the Playstation, when things keep going wrong.

Next question:

Do I try and sign into the Playstation Network on my new system with my old name? I'm guessing it won't let me...

Or do I immediately sign up with a new name and lose the one game I bought off the network (Gripshift)?

Decisions, decisions. Well, if anyone's got any thoughts on the matter, I'd love to hear them.

Well that's great to hear. It wasn't a big loss to be losing "Gripshift", but it's good to know that I'm not losing everything.

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Most likely you maybe got a system with a bad laser diode. One in a million shot.

I really am one in a million? Aw shucks, you shouldn't have . I hope you're right. I still haven't plugged the new one in yet. Too scared. I don't even wanna breath on the thing.

i know im very late but i thought you could'nt whatch blu-ray movies unless you had a tv that supported 1080p.

MC does your tv support 1080p

My tv only supports 1080i and I can watch blu-ray movies.