Just in the last day I've seen two seperate complaints about the DVD drive in the Xbox 360. ArsTechnica has a piece up describing how the 360 refused to read a bunch of scratched movie DVDs from a public library, but that the PlayStation 3's Blu-Ray drive handled every last one of them without a hitch.
Meanwhile, my friend Christian is finding his efforts to play through Blue Dragon stymied by the fact that the 360 keeps giving him dirty disc errors (DDEs, for the cool kids). On a brand new system running a brand new game.
What's up with this? I've never experienced these problems with my Xbox 360, but my original Xbox was a veritable cornucopia of DDEs. If you ever needed a DDE or two, all you had to do was turn that thing on. And it got worse and worse -- I don't even use it anymore. Hopefully my 360 will stay healthy. I guess the lesson here is that a $200 Blu-Ray drive beats a $40 DVD drive any day.
