Does PS3 Blu Ray laser kill DVDs?

[MaliceValentine]

I recently bought Venture bros season 1 brand new, and watched it on my ps3 worked perfectly but i recently (2 weeks later) decided to watch it again with a friend and it started messing up half way through episode 4 so i figured it might be the ps3, tried it in the ps2 same issue on the same episode. Gave it a clean seems to work fine right now, but wondering if ps3 blu ray laser do any damage?

[dsheinem]

Sounds like it was just a disc problem. I don't think there's any evidence to suggest that reading DVDs, PS2 discs, PS1 discs, CDs, etc. does any harm to a Blu-Ray laser or vice versa.

[CRTGAMER]

I wouldn't put it pass Sony trying to kill the DVDs with this Urban legend.
But no, the Bluray in PS3 is strictly a tighter pit reader, can't burn a stamped DVD.

[Niode]

I wouldn't put it pass Sony trying to kill the DVDs with this Urban legend.
But no, the Bluray in PS3 is strictly a tighter pit reader, can't burn a stamped DVD.

It can't alter pressed media anyway. Doesn't work like that.

[slowslow325]

It can't alter pressed media anyway. Doesn't work like that.

It couldn't alter pressed media, but it can destroy it. Like the Blu Ray laser in the PS3 physically burning the DVD.

[Niode]

It can't alter pressed media anyway. Doesn't work like that.

It couldn't alter pressed media, but it can destroy it. Like the Blu Ray laser in the PS3 physically burning the DVD.

It wouldn't do that anyway. Unless there was a severe malfunction in the drive and the laser intensity was cranked to way higher than it's designed to go even then I very much doubt it would actually damage a pressed disc. All a CD burner does with recordable discs is darken the photosensitive dye on the disk. With a pressed disc the pits are physical. Even if you could force a CD burner to write to a pressed disc it wouldn't change a thing on the disc because there's no photosensitive dye to alter. The pits are actual indentations in the aluminium/polycarbonate. Even then it's still not powerful enough to physically damage the disc from excess heat.

Simply put, bluray readers in their default state won't be able to damage a pressed disc. They are capable of going up to 250mW in pulse driven mode but I doubt the bluray drive is going to be running in such a high power state to read a disc. If it's reading a DVD then something around 5mW is required not even close to generating enough heat to damage a disc. It ain't gonna happen basically.