Horizontal vs. Vertical

[tom-nook]

In my experience horizontal causes less overheating, although you could just buy one of these - http://www.gamestop.com/product.asp?product%5Fid=802176

Think I'm going with horizontal too. More concerned about heat issues than disc scratching (but will play a couple of freebie dvd's before playing any games just to check).

That stand looks really tacky - does it actually have a fan built into it or is it just a cheap bit of plastic with a few airholes cut into it? If it's the latter 20 bucks seems pretty steep when a couple of cd boxes will do the trick just as well if not better.

[Toast]

Vertical for me, PS2's been sitting there since the Japanese relase with no problems dispite my ****ty power pack.

[Friction]

Has anyone really heard major things about when horizontal scratching stuff?
I just can't see how that's possible, as I said before it's just a PC drive essentially!?! I would have thought there was more chance of that happened when vertical?!

[Simmy]

Has anyone really heard major things about when horizontal scratching stuff?
I just can't see how that's possible, as I said before it's just a PC drive essentially!?! I would have thought there was more chance of that happened when vertical?!

I can't believe it makes any difference either way tbh, my original xbox scratch my disks to buggery while horizantal though, maybe I should of balanced it on its end

[Leon Retro]

I will be going for vertical because it looks better and I have a pefect space for it next to my tv!

[SubparMario]

If either of those problems are present in all units then the thing should go straight back on a recall. Shouldn't have to work around it!

[wod]

it shouldn't matter which way you have it i've had my ps2 vertical some months and then changed and had it flat and not even had scratched discs or anything

[Friction]

it shouldn't matter which way you have it i've had my ps2 vertical some months and then changed and had it flat and not even had scratched discs or anything

Thats exactly how I had my PS2 for years! I then changed it to horizontal and to this day all my discs are perfect!

I think it's was a very isolated incident with the original machine tbh.

Regarding it happening on the 360 I've seen one pic of the back of a back of a disc, where you had to look really hard to seen anything - not that that only seeing the back it could have been any old disc I guess?!

[Mad Gear]

I've got mine verticle and it's run fine with no disc scratching or crashing.

6 hrs solid play too

[SubparMario]

Here's at tip: don't try and change the orientation while the thing is running with a disc inside. That's just asking for trouble.