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Has anybody here received NEW defective music CD's, DVD movies or Blu-ray disc movies right out of the box?
Defects right out of the factory-sealed box might included contaminated or dirty playing surfaces, scratches and performance issues like skips, audio cutout and/or picture freezes.
My new five-disc Planet of the Apes (20th Century Fox/APJAC Produictions) legacy collection of BD's had such shortcomings and have to be turned to amazon.com for that reason.
I gave this $99.00 product a one-star review on amazon and this is what I wrote as follows:
" At least two of the discs froze during movie playback. Three discs had residue like greasy smudges on the playing surface right ot of the box. One disc with residue was able to be corrected from playback freezing performance by using an optical disc wet cleaner by Phillips. Another disc had a small circular impression on the playing surface that was not able to be cleaned off to correct playback freeze-up. So, the whole set of five movies must be returned. These commercially-sold BD movies are much too expensive to have any such defects and failures from the manufacturer."
This is my first-ever experience with commericlaly-produced BD movies but I have had experience with the DVD format since 2006. It is apparent to me now that Blu-ray is much less tolerant than DVD for even the most petty imperfections on the playing surface. I have some old DVD movies that don't skip a beat during playback even with considerable small nicks and scratches (haze) on the surface.
I'm hoping that commercial full-feature movie titles will be soon produced on USB memory sticks in a high-fidelity/ultra-high-definition digital file format that is totally lossless as an alternative to optical disc media, which is prone to malfunction. You can't accidentally "scratch" a digital media file.
Defects right out of the factory-sealed box might included contaminated or dirty playing surfaces, scratches and performance issues like skips, audio cutout and/or picture freezes.
My new five-disc Planet of the Apes (20th Century Fox/APJAC Produictions) legacy collection of BD's had such shortcomings and have to be turned to amazon.com for that reason.
I gave this $99.00 product a one-star review on amazon and this is what I wrote as follows:
" At least two of the discs froze during movie playback. Three discs had residue like greasy smudges on the playing surface right ot of the box. One disc with residue was able to be corrected from playback freezing performance by using an optical disc wet cleaner by Phillips. Another disc had a small circular impression on the playing surface that was not able to be cleaned off to correct playback freeze-up. So, the whole set of five movies must be returned. These commercially-sold BD movies are much too expensive to have any such defects and failures from the manufacturer."
This is my first-ever experience with commericlaly-produced BD movies but I have had experience with the DVD format since 2006. It is apparent to me now that Blu-ray is much less tolerant than DVD for even the most petty imperfections on the playing surface. I have some old DVD movies that don't skip a beat during playback even with considerable small nicks and scratches (haze) on the surface.
I'm hoping that commercial full-feature movie titles will be soon produced on USB memory sticks in a high-fidelity/ultra-high-definition digital file format that is totally lossless as an alternative to optical disc media, which is prone to malfunction. You can't accidentally "scratch" a digital media file.