14 DAY TRIAL // If there's anything that Sony doesn't need right now, it's more bad press. Honestly now, it's like they're doomed. They chose a bad timing with the launch, they implemented the most expensive technology, yet they don't make enough titles available to show it off, so practically, there's no good reason to have one. Now, as if everything mentioned above wasn't enough, Blu-ray discs are starting to rot, literally!
Apparently, lots of "The Prestige" owners (a fairly good movie that managed to get itself written on Blu-ray) are experiencing spots that cannot be removed from the disc's surface, as they have appeared between the layers of which the Blu-ray disc is composed. As Engadget reports "a thread over at the AVS Forums has highlighted a potential problem with the coating of Blu-ray discs, described by many as "disc rot" due to the mould-like spots that have made several owner's Blu-ray discs unplayable. The five page thread has reports from dozens of forum members, many of them discovering spots which can't be rubbed off on Blu-ray versions of 'The Prestige'."
It's almost impossible to imagine that something as technological as the Blu-ray disc can rot. I mean, if the spots cannot be rubbed off, it means that they are inside the disc somehow, right? Destructoid points out that the "little spots underneath the surface of the disc" render "an unlucky copy unplayable in a manner similar to the rot that has befallen certain Laserdiscs, CDs and DVDs in the past." I have to say (as badly informed as you may think I am) that I've never heard of these happenings. How can anything get inside a compact disc? Surely nothing can get through the layers (except light) after it's been rolled out of the factory. Most likely, something happened with those Blu-ray discs when they were being manufactured (long before anyone even knew they would be engraved with "The Prestige").
Sony'd better hope that PS3 games don't mold, otherwise, it's the end for them in this generation.