{"id":4612,"date":"2002-03-06T14:13:00","date_gmt":"2002-03-06T18:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2002\/03\/06\/microsoft-addresses-japanese-xbox-damaging-cds\/"},"modified":"2002-03-06T14:13:00","modified_gmt":"2002-03-06T18:13:00","slug":"microsoft-addresses-japanese-xbox-damaging-cds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/microsoft-addresses-japanese-xbox-damaging-cds\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Addresses Japanese Xbox Damaging CDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to numerous complaints and public discussion, Microsoft has issued a <a href=\"http:\/\/xbox.jp\/020301.html\" target=\"_blank\">public statement<\/a> regarding the fact that the Japanese Xbox console has a tendency to leave small nicks and scratches on the outer edge of CDs played in the system.  According to the official Japanese statement, &#8220;Minor scratches may sometimes occur on the outside of DVD\/CDs after running in the Xbox. This is a natural phenomenon which happens with friction, and there has been no past reports that they have effected normal gameplay, DVD playback or CD music playback.&#8221; Microsoft has offered to replace consoles that inflict damage to CDs, but apparently will not actually replace or compensate consumers for damaged discs.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that the Japanese Xbox console has been officially acknowledged to actually damage (at least cosmetically) CDs coupled with disappointing Japanese sales may portent a dismal future for the Xbox in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetps2.com\/mmcafe\/\" target=\"_blank\">Madman&#8217;s Cafe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to numerous complaints and public discussion, Microsoft has issued a public statement regarding the fact that the Japanese Xbox console has a tendency to leave small nicks and scratches on the outer edge of CDs played in the system. According to the official Japanese statement, &#8220;Minor scratches may sometimes occur on the outside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}