Microsoft to explain Xbox 360 disc scratching
The European Commission for Consumers (ECC) gave Microsoft the chance to explain a number issues raised by Dutch TV show Kassa. The reports of disc scratching have been around since the release of the Xbox 360, but this is the first formal action asking for a response from Microsoft.
Scratching of discs was one of the first possible issues to come to the fore post Xbox 360 launch, and has bubbled away in the background without much of a concerted effort from either front until now.
There is an important thing how the disc gets scratching: moving the Xbox 360 during play did indeed cause the scratching the can lead to a useless disc. This practice is specifically addressed in the Xbox 360 manual as a way of having your warrantee voided.
A vertically deployed Xbox 360 could be more prone to movement and thus the disc scratching problem, and that other similar disc drives have compensating buffers deployed around the laser lens. The Xbox 360 does not have these buffers installed; it is the laser lens that has been identified as the source of the scratching, reports ITWire.
Microsoft has consistently denied that the scratching is an endemic part of the Xbox 360 design.
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