PBeeee Senior Member 559 posts Likes: 2 Joined Nov 2007 Location: Montana USA More info | Dec 21, 2008 19:31 | #1 Totally unrelated to photography I know, but I don't play in any other forurms. Does anyone know if discs for Playstation can make it thru airport security scanners unharmed? Have one for a gift, don't want it in checked, far too easy to steal. Its a Playstation 3 game. Anyone?
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Michael Cream of the Crop  5,981 posts Likes: 3 Joined May 2006 Location: Perth, Western Australia More info | Dec 21, 2008 19:59 | #2 I have taken discs through airports on numerous occasions. It will be fine. Michael
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Dec 21, 2008 20:02 | #3 Thanks. Can't say we've ever carried one before, old people, you know.....
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BillsBayou In trouble with my wife  5,025 posts Likes: 8 Joined Mar 2006 Location: New Orleans, La. USA! Favorite Cheese: Caciocavallo Invention: Incendiary Spit-Bomb Wait. What? More info | Dec 22, 2008 13:42 | #4 PBeeee wrote in post #6922971  Totally unrelated to photography I know, but I don't play in any other forurms. Does anyone know if discs for Playstation can make it thru airport security scanners unharmed? Have one for a gift, don't want it in checked, far too easy to steal. Its a Playstation 3 game. Anyone? If it isn't taped to a gun, you should be ok. Take only pictures, leave only footprints...
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jjgoo Member 67 posts Joined Dec 2008 More info | Dec 22, 2008 13:45 | #5 my psp disks went thru with no problem.
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Keegan Senior Member  268 posts Joined Apr 2007 Location: DC More info | Dec 23, 2008 10:59 | #6 No worries. I've carried game discs and even a console through security before. You definitely feel a bit childish
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Pete I was "Prime Mover" many years back....  38,631 posts Likes: 25 Joined Jul 2006 Location: Berkshire, UK More info | Dec 23, 2008 12:07 | #7 Airport scanners have such a low radiation charge that you could send a small fluffy puppy through without any adverse effect.
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radlux Member 64 posts Joined Dec 2008 More info | Dec 24, 2008 20:56 | #8 Yep taken a load through on my last visit to Eurpoe Gear: 70D, 40D. Tokina 11-16, Canon 50mm 1.8, Sigma 30mm 1.4, Canon 17-40L
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fishfoto -Krazy Glue-  840 posts Likes: 1 Joined Mar 2008 Location: Live: HVN Work: The World More info | Dec 27, 2008 12:28 | #9 You can carry full size game consoles through TSA screening checkpoints, as well as foreign airport security check points. - Fish
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RichSoansPhotos Cream of the Crop 5,981 posts Likes: 44 Joined Aug 2007 Location: London, UK More info | Dec 28, 2008 05:53 | #10  Permanent banPBeeee wrote in post #6922971 Totally unrelated to photography I know, but I don't play in any other forurms. Does anyone know if discs for Playstation can make it thru airport security scanners unharmed? Have one for a gift, don't want it in checked, far too easy to steal. Its a Playstation 3 game. Anyone? I have taken my spine through airport scanners, and the discs seems to be a bit dodgy these days, hahaha, only joking
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on the serious note, discs are not like memory cards, they are more sensitive to the scanners themselves, but not to say they will fail after being taken through a scanner. Discs are permanent forms of backup/storage/mediums, so therefore won't succumb to the daily grind of life