Wedge003

I just picked up Battlestar Galactica Season One from Best Buy and as I was checking the undersides of the discs, I noticed that four out of the five discs contain this sort of "scales" on the data side of the discs. They look similar to figure print marks but look similar to "scales."
Has anyone else seen this before on a DVD? If so, does it cause any playback problems? I tried doing a serach here on the forums but I haven't been able to turn anything up. I'm just wondering if this is common for this set, or if I should exchange it and see if I can get a non-"scaled" copy.
Thanks for any help.

speedy1961

Scales?

Wedge003

It looks like finger print marks, but these marks have a pattern that looks almost like the scales on a snake. It's really weird and I have never seen this before on a DVD. I'm thinking about exchanging the set just because of this occurence, but if this a large problem it might be likely that my replacement set will have similar markings on the underside of the discs.

astrochimp

I just checked mine for fun and no such marks of that or any kind.I would just exchange it if i were you.

drjohnson3

I too saw this on my season one discs (both the first set, and the second set I exchanged them for before I gave up), but didn't post about it because I figured it might be difficult to convey exactly what this looks like. Scales is a good descriptor though. These aren't marks ON the disc, but more like some weird effect on the back of the disc art that you can see through the discs.

In any case, I didn't have any playback problems with mine, so even though I'm usually really picky about this kind of thing, I let it go when I saw that a second set had the same problem (especially since it was multiple discs, and not just one bad disc--seems like a result of how they were being manufactured).