Been Down This Road Before

A few months back I raved about my experience with Microsoft's warranty repair program for my Xbox 360.  The "warranty experience" was awesome, some might say flawless; and in the end I came out of it with a new 360, either that or a very new looking refurbished model after mine suffered from a case of Error E74.

Three months, 1 week into the enjoyment of my replacement 360 and the DVD drive dies and utterly refuses to recognize any video game or movie DVD placed in it.  Right in the middle of playing a game too; I was transitioning through menus and "BLAH!, sorry pal go fuck yourself, no more game for you!".  I suppose I should have suspected something, after I got the new system, every so often I'd get a disk read error; I thought it was just moody.

So, my old-new 360 is off once again to be fixed by the Microsoft elves.  A casualty of this burnt out piece of shit DVD drive are what I can only assume are burn marks in what was once my flawless Street Fighter 4 game disk.  Now while I play games on my "loaner" unit, last night I received another "disk unreadable" while playing SF4. 

I'm going to attempt to get a replacement, although with Microsoft I'm pretty sure this will fall into the hardware manufacturer blaming the software manufacturer and vice versa.  I worked in tech support for like five years and the stigmatism MS has received on blaming the other guy is based on cold hard facts.  Only time will tell if some mutton head owes up to my disk being damaged by no fault of my own.  *Someone* delivered a product that was *not* devoid of defect, and it sure as hell wasn't me.

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