How many defective dvd's have turned up in your collection
#26
DVD Talk Godfather
Out of about 700, I have three. All three are part of TV sets so it's not so easy to just toss and rebuy.
Quantum Leap: S3 disc 1 (the wonderful Universal DVD18, totally unplayable)
Northern Exposure: S2 disc 1 (got two disc twos instead of disc one)
Heroes: HDDVD: S1 disc 5 (had a scratch on day one and skips during one ep.)
Quantum Leap: S3 disc 1 (the wonderful Universal DVD18, totally unplayable)
Northern Exposure: S2 disc 1 (got two disc twos instead of disc one)
Heroes: HDDVD: S1 disc 5 (had a scratch on day one and skips during one ep.)
#27
DVD Talk Legend
Out of around 580+, I've only had around 3.
*Alias: Season 4 (Disc 3 would skip randomly during playback)
*Brotherhood of The Wolf CE (Disc 1 of 3 missing)
*Opera (2 Disc AB Edition, Disc 1 would not play)
*Alias: Season 4 (Disc 3 would skip randomly during playback)
*Brotherhood of The Wolf CE (Disc 1 of 3 missing)
*Opera (2 Disc AB Edition, Disc 1 would not play)
#28
DVD Talk Legend
Over 1200 and the only defective ones I have ever had were ones known to have problems like some of the early Anchor Bay ones that I already replaced. I have replayed many discs from 1998 and have yet to find a bad one.
#30
DVD Talk Ultimate Edition
Originally Posted by Takeshi357
Only one. Mad Max SE. It had a huge manufacturing error (a small dent that made the disc unplayable some one hour plus into the film), but I never got around to tossing it because it still has perfectly serviceable case and cover...
#31
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With over 2300 DVDs, I've been lucky to have had less than 10 overall that were defective. At least, 10 I know of since I haven't watched every title I own yet. The most frequent offenders lately have been the few HD/DVD combo discs I have. Just last night Eastern Promises fucked up again, for the last time. I'm going to return it and buy the SD version and wait for a BR version to hit.
#32
Senior Member
I have 2 bad discs from 2 sets. But they are just the cheap Mill Creek Entertainment sets you find at the Wal-Mart dumpbin. One disc, a bunch of TV shows, has one episode freeze up several times while its playing. The other disc, a bunch of cartoons, has the player freeze up and make noises after the 25th cartoon on the disc. The TV show disc I will keep and just not play the one episode that freezes. I bought another copy of the cartoon set to replace the bad disc from that set, but have to keep both copies of the set because they replaced a few cartoons on the new copy of the set.
#33
Moderator
I've only encountered three and they happened to be imports a Peter Greenaway Collection set disc from France, Destricted from the UK, and a copy of My Name is Joe (UK again)
#34
DVD Talk Legend
I've had a couple messed up discs. The first was State Property. It began pixelating near the end until it finally wound up freezing completely. The other I just discovered today was The Sixth Sense. About an hour and 15 minutes in, it began kind of "hiccuping" for a second every 30 seconds or so. As the movie progressed, it got worse.
#35
DVD Talk Legend
Originally Posted by scott1598
"Ubreakable" was the only really defective one that wouldn't play on any machine. i had to buy it again. i think 2 others have skipped once during playback, but nothing major. out of almost 1,000, but of course 100 or many more have never been played.
Same thing happened to me. It worked fine when I first got it, but I went to play it a while back and it was, well broke. The irony was not lost on me. It's the only disc that I know of that broke after I got it.
#37
DVD Talk Platinum Edition
I have over 4000 dvds. The only 2 are the first releases of THE THING (Kurt Russell) and Appollo 13 (Tom Hanks). At first, MISSION TO MARS was messing up but worked in a different dvd player.