Did I break my PS4's blu-ray drive?

I forgot a disc in my PS4 and turned it off. While it was in this condition, I lifted it up a few centimeters (so I don't scratch the bottom) and moved it just a little bit to the left to check something on the back of the console. It was in horizontal position during this whole thing. After that, I turned it on again and continued to play from the disc. However, I am a bit worried whether I have damaged the blu-ray disc reader while moving the console while the disc was inside. What do you think? Everything runs normal, however I am concerned. Thank you.

stenbocken wrote:
Did you drop it the few centimeters or why do you think this would have harmed your PS4? No, I just lifted it up and moved it to the right. I am worried, because isn't the blu-ray drive supposed to be sensitive?

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muntuman wrote:
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It doesn't matter if for at least the immediate time being, it may not be actually possible to play Blu-ray movies within OS X lacking the kernels for it. If a compatible drive was found, then the rewards are:-
Storing massive amounts of data (up to 50GB on one disc). Fantastic fro backups and archiving.
Being able to FINNALLY output edited Hi Def video/movies from Final Cut Studio onto a Blu-ray disc and then playing that on a dedicated external Blu-ray player elsewhere.
Booting-up in Bootcamp for attempting to play-back Blu-ray movies using windows drivers, software and built-in OS kernels. (I'm not a Windows person, but can't deny it can save the day where some things are concerned)
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