well i am a member of several forums and this seems to be a reacurring topic so i researched it
i found out that the earlier versions of the ps2 were rushed to release due to the huge number of awaiting fans this did not allow sony to work out all the bugs and soon problems started to arise first the blue disc's were actually lighter causing the ps2 to be unable to read them. Then the dvd problem came up because the earlier models were not equipped to handle exstensive dvd usage. So if you were one of those people who could not wait to buy it and rushed out to get it chances are you got a faulty model and will probably run it to these types of problems not saying everyone will some maybe lucky and run into absolutely no probs but the majority of people have and let me just say you are a lot better off buying a new one the repairs will probably cost you twice as much believe me i am also a victume of this. So in the end its not that the ps2 is a bad system its actually joe blow from sony who dropped the ball and did not catch any of this in time befor the release so shun the lazy person not the system
