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post #91 of 114
8/1/12 at 1:36pm
Haven't tried any of my BD's! I must have over 200+ disc titles that I'd need to check. Add to that, all of the DVD's I own, which is probably equal to that number. Heck, i even own about 100 Laserdiscs too. Some of those do show minor signs of playback problems, but do still play as well for me.

You'd think that the manufactures would have come up with some kind of material that wouldn't cause a problem over time. I guess that's one reason why new formats have come up over time, but it does get tiresome replacing titles with the new thing all the time.
Edited by JMCurtis - 1/27/13 at 10:11pm
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post #92 of 114
8/1/12 at 2:27pm
I suspect a bad load of resin coating could be the culprit. Otherwise all discs would be going bad.
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post #93 of 114
8/1/12 at 8:15pm
Before anybody get too panicky....

I just went back and read all of the posts in this thread.

Keeping in mind that this thread was started in late 2010, I counted only about 8 folks actually reporting unplayable discs.

The rest of the posts here are people expressing concern or posting various other questions and observations. With this thread approaching it's second birthday with only a tiny handful of people here reporting problems, I can't see this as a significant issue. That's not to say that these are the only 8 guys with disc problems. But when you consider that many of us have hundreds of discs and there are a lot of registered users here, any widespread problem would have generated a whole lot more complaints.

If this thread was a month old, 40 pages long with 80 people reporting unplayable discs, I'd be sweating.

But for an older thread that's 4 pages long with 8 people reporting unplayable discs, I'm not losing sleep.
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post #94 of 114
8/5/12 at 8:52pm
My copy of TDK no longer works. It needed to be loaded 4 or 5 times last time I tried it a year ago. Now it won't play in any thing. I am the only one that handles my disks and they get treated like they are the crown jewels. The surface looks mint though I don't remember it being so easy to read the label through the disk. But my memory could be unclear on that.
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post #95 of 114
8/6/12 at 1:31am
Try TDK on another player before writing it off. A lot of people tend to blame their discs, after trying it on just one player.
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post #96 of 114
8/17/12 at 2:06pm
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Originally Posted by jvillain View Post

My copy of TDK no longer works. It needed to be loaded 4 or 5 times last time I tried it a year ago. Now it won't play in any thing. I am the only one that handles my disks and they get treated like they are the crown jewels. The surface looks mint though I don't remember it being so easy to read the label through the disk. But my memory could be unclear on that.

Had problems with mine last night too, at the 2 hour mark the movie got pixelated and then it stopped, I played it on another player and the same thing happened, then I tried it on the PS3 and it stopped(like paused) at that time and then continued playing....the disc is also in pristine condition.
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post #97 of 114
8/20/12 at 8:50am
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Originally Posted by Dex Robinson View Post

Before anybody get too panicky....
I just went back and read all of the posts in this thread.
Keeping in mind that this thread was started in late 2010, I counted only about 8 folks actually reporting unplayable discs.
The rest of the posts here are people expressing concern or posting various other questions and observations. With this thread approaching it's second birthday with only a tiny handful of people here reporting problems, I can't see this as a significant issue. That's not to say that these are the only 8 guys with disc problems. But when you consider that many of us have hundreds of discs and there are a lot of registered users here, any widespread problem would have generated a whole lot more complaints.
If this thread was a month old, 40 pages long with 80 people reporting unplayable discs, I'd be sweating.
But for an older thread that's 4 pages long with 8 people reporting unplayable discs, I'm not losing sleep.

+1

Perhaps I've just been lucky, but I've been buying optical discs since 1982 when CDs were introduced and have only come across one optical disc that failed after owning it for several years (Apollo 13 DVD; Universal replaced it at no cost to me). My 30 year old CDs still play and look like new (I take very good care of them).
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post #98 of 114
8/20/12 at 10:32am
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Originally Posted by Dex Robinson View Post

Before anybody get too panicky....
I just went back and read all of the posts in this thread.
Keeping in mind that this thread was started in late 2010, I counted only about 8 folks actually reporting unplayable discs.
The rest of the posts here are people expressing concern or posting various other questions and observations. With this thread approaching it's second birthday with only a tiny handful of people here reporting problems, I can't see this as a significant issue. That's not to say that these are the only 8 guys with disc problems. But when you consider that many of us have hundreds of discs and there are a lot of registered users here, any widespread problem would have generated a whole lot more complaints.
If this thread was a month old, 40 pages long with 80 people reporting unplayable discs, I'd be sweating.
But for an older thread that's 4 pages long with 8 people reporting unplayable discs, I'm not losing sleep.

+1

Perhaps I've just been lucky, but I've been buying optical discs since 1982 when CDs were introduced and have only come across one optical disc that failed after owning it for several years (Apollo 13 DVD; Universal replaced it at no cost to me). My 30 year old CDs still play and look like new (I take very good care of them).
CDs were always a more reliable medium than DVDs or Blu-rays. The few kinks in the CD manufacturing process were worked out by the early 90s. More things could go wrong on DVDs with its dual layers. Blu-ray problems tend to be tied to specific errors in each pressing, introduced at the time of manufacture.
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post #99 of 114
8/20/12 at 12:05pm
My copy of Superman Returns is done. It's the old one that has lossy audio. I sold it to someone on Amazon Marketplace who tried it in 2 different players with no luck. I tried both of my players when I got it back, to be sure and Yep it's done.
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post #100 of 114
8/22/12 at 10:04pm
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Originally Posted by Phantom Stranger View Post

CDs were always a more reliable medium than DVDs or Blu-rays. The few kinks in the CD manufacturing process were worked out by the early 90s. More things could go wrong on DVDs with its dual layers. Blu-ray problems tend to be tied to specific errors in each pressing, introduced at the time of manufacture.
Not only that, but the data density of DVDs and now BDs is so much higher than that of a CD. The higher the density of the data, the less it takes to create an error. The same pit or scratch that a CD player would shrug off can render a BD unplayable.

That's why big giant hard drives tend to be less reliable in data retention than smaller capacity ones - which is one reason raid systems tend to use much smaller capacity drives in the arrays.

The bigger the bits on the surface, the easier they are to read, even if some corruption occurs.
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post #101 of 114
8/25/12 at 10:21am
My copy of pearl harbour won't play anymore. Ive had this movie since originally released now won't play. Tried in 7different players and it won't work. I'll have to scout for another copy now. mad.gif
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post #102 of 114
8/25/12 at 12:54pm
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My copy of pearl harbour won't play anymore.
I fail to see the problem here biggrin.gif
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post #103 of 114
8/25/12 at 6:37pm
I put the copy in my panasonic bd 30 in the dining room and it shows copyright violation ???? original disc brand new played only a few times. This annoys me very much.

I wonder if there is a way we can tell that there is a newly pressed version?
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post #104 of 114
8/25/12 at 6:40pm
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Originally Posted by eric.exe View Post

I fail to see the problem here biggrin.gif

I know its not a very well liked movie in this forum, but I like it. smile.gif and Im annoyed that it doesnt work. frown.gif
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post #105 of 114
8/26/12 at 8:11am
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I know its not a very well liked movie in this forum, but I like it. smile.gif and Im annoyed that it doesnt work. frown.gif
Is it a Kate Bekinsale thing?
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post #106 of 114
1/27/13 at 9:58pm
my copy of THe Robe has developed obvious disc rot at the periphery of the disc and the centre Spindle

My other Fox Disc from the Elia Kazan Collection "a tree grows in brooklyn " looks perfect but stutters on every blu player i try . Im pretty sure FOX uses CINRAM to press their discs and there were some problems with CINRAM pressed HD-DVD's.

Pics of the Robe





The movie plays fine (for now ) but I read somewhere that the rot eventually spreads

With 400+ titles in my library i hope blu ray disc rot is a rare event !
Edited by filmoreXXX - 1/28/13 at 3:43am
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post #107 of 114
1/28/13 at 8:37am
^Yikes... I thought rot had gone out with LD's
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post #108 of 114
1/28/13 at 11:25am
I personally do not advocate piracy, however I also think that the ability to make a single 1:1 copy of all legally purchased BD movie software (the same way a single-copy backup is permissable by the EULAs of software companies) should be allowed by content owners for this reason alone. Imagine having to re-purchase an out-of-print copy of some desirable title you owned that has succumbed to rot, like the Criterion Collection edition of "The Third Man" which often gets sold on ebay (new, still sealed) for several hundred dollars a pop eek.gif
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post #109 of 114
1/28/13 at 5:32pm
Not to start a format war argument, but at least the handful of reports of rot with Blu-ray are few and far between, and nowhere near as bad as they were with HD DVD. Nearly every Warner HD DVD seems to become unplayable after a while: http://www.avsforum.com/t/1332907/having-very-bad-luck-with-warner-hd-dvds
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post #110 of 114
1/28/13 at 7:58pm
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Originally Posted by jd213 View Post

Not to start a format war argument, but at least the handful of reports of rot with Blu-ray are few and far between, and nowhere near as bad as they were with HD DVD. Nearly every Warner HD DVD seems to become unplayable after a while: http://www.avsforum.com/t/1332907/having-very-bad-luck-with-warner-hd-dvds
Warner got very lucky that HD DVD didn't win the format war. There would have been class-action lawsuits if the format had stuck around in any form. I have no idea how I would handle hundreds of discs in my collection suddenly being rendered unplayable.
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post #111 of 114
1/28/13 at 10:46pm
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Originally Posted by jd213 View Post

Not to start a format war argument, but at least the handful of reports of rot with Blu-ray are few and far between, and nowhere near as bad as they were with HD DVD. Nearly every Warner HD DVD seems to become unplayable after a while: http://www.avsforum.com/t/1332907/having-very-bad-luck-with-warner-hd-dvds

Although a number of Warner released discs had manufacturing problems resulting in problematic playback (mostly from 1 manufacturer, apparently), your statement is not accurate. I experienced about a 10% failure rate with Warner HD-DVDs. And a small handful of problems from all other studios combined. This is out of a fairly large collection. Blu-rays have been far more reliable, so far, for me, with only 1 or 2 problems. But then blu-ray has had a fair number of extra years to improve manufacturing of media.
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post #112 of 114
1/28/13 at 10:54pm
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Although a number of Warner released discs had manufacturing problems resulting in problematic playback (mostly from 1 manufacturer, apparently), your statement is not accurate. I experienced about a 10% failure rate with Warner HD-DVDs. And a small handful of problems from all other studios combined. This is out of a fairly large collection. Blu-rays have been far more reliable, so far, for me, with only 1 or 2 problems. But then blu-ray has had a fair number of extra years to improve manufacturing of media.

You are lucky, I take very good care of my disks and have found that close to half of the warner hd dvds I have will not play. I have started converting my hd dvds to blu ray and am storing them on external hard drives. I have not found any issues with any of my other hd dvds from other studios. I even had one warner disc, Lethal Weapon, that I opened for the first time (was still in the wrapper) a few months back that would not play right off the bat. Crazy and frustrating. I almost wonder if this problem played into their decision to go blu, which, if you remember, essentially ended the format war.
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post #113 of 114
1/29/13 at 10:36am
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Originally Posted by filmoreXXX View Post

my copy of The Robe has developed obvious disc rot at the periphery of the disc and the centre Spindle
The one and only Blu-ray disc I have had to exchange so far for a problem when new was The Robe. My first copy would freeze or jump at what I suspect was the layer-change location. I did not look at the disc closely for anything visible.
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post #114 of 114
1/29/13 at 5:41pm
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Originally Posted by chadsdsmith View Post

You are lucky, I take very good care of my disks and have found that close to half of the warner hd dvds I have will not play. I have started converting my hd dvds to blu ray and am storing them on external hard drives. I have not found any issues with any of my other hd dvds from other studios. I even had one warner disc, Lethal Weapon, that I opened for the first time (was still in the wrapper) a few months back that would not play right off the bat. Crazy and frustrating. I almost wonder if this problem played into their decision to go blu, which, if you remember, essentially ended the format war.

I have read that the problematic discs from Warner were made by a company called "cinram". My defective Warner HD-DVDs were also mostly bad right out of the shrink wrap. Warner (Burbank) replaced every one of my bad titles with blu-rays of the same title.
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