Which BD titles have had rot or other issues?
02-24-08, 03:10 PM
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Which BD titles have had rot or other issues?
Has anyone kept a list of what BD titles have had disc rot or other issues? I remember a thread or two about it on one forum or another, but now that I'm looking to go Blu, I'd like to know which titles to avoid buying or avoid older copies of.
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Early copies of The Prestige were reportedly problematic, although later pressings corrected this.
02-24-08, 05:09 PM
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The issue with The Prestige was not "rot" but a contaminant in one of the batches which causes some kind of weird reaction and resulted in tons of little spots under the finish from the pic I saw.
02-24-08, 05:27 PM
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I've had a couple movies with yellowing splotches inside the disc and were not recognized at all in the PS3. I've had maybe 3 or 4 more discs that either would not play (Pathfinder) or skipped alot (Home of the Brave, Rescue Dawn) in the past couple months even though they looked perfect. I've watched probably over 50 blu-ray movies, so it's a small percentage overall.
11-11-18, 04:48 PM
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Ancient bump, but this was the first thread I found here regarding BD rot.
This summer, I discovered a huge amount (40+) of defective Warner Bros. DVDs in my collection. Nearly all were from box sets or 2-disc editions produced between 2005-2010. After contacting the studio, they did come through with replacements for about 80% of them after I mailed in the duds.
After that experience, I didn't even want to think about data rot affecting my blu-rays already. Unfortunately, it's also becoming a problem -- at least with early Lionsgate titles released around the same time period as the faulty WB DVDs. Looking at a thread over on the blu-ray site gave me an idea of what titles to inspect first.
Sure enough, I have four Lionsgate blus that have turned a dark yellow color with spots dotting the data side. Two of them (The Phantom and The Relic) will not load at all. Out of all my discs, why did it have to be the these two? Both are out of print and can sell for $50+ on good day. Just my friggin' luck...
As for the other two: Universal Soldier freezes up during the last half of the movie. Reservoir Dogs still seems to play, though I just fast-forwarded and didn't watch the whole movie. Still, things like this make me regret sinking so much money into a movie collection.
There's no security in ownership when a disc can play fine one day and not work at all the next. It wouldn't bother me quite as much if this started happening a couple decades after purchase, but not after only a few years. Apparently Lionsgate is one studio that doesn't offer replacements for defective titles, so I'm just out the cash due to their faulty manufacturing.
This summer, I discovered a huge amount (40+) of defective Warner Bros. DVDs in my collection. Nearly all were from box sets or 2-disc editions produced between 2005-2010. After contacting the studio, they did come through with replacements for about 80% of them after I mailed in the duds.
After that experience, I didn't even want to think about data rot affecting my blu-rays already. Unfortunately, it's also becoming a problem -- at least with early Lionsgate titles released around the same time period as the faulty WB DVDs. Looking at a thread over on the blu-ray site gave me an idea of what titles to inspect first.
Sure enough, I have four Lionsgate blus that have turned a dark yellow color with spots dotting the data side. Two of them (The Phantom and The Relic) will not load at all. Out of all my discs, why did it have to be the these two? Both are out of print and can sell for $50+ on good day. Just my friggin' luck...
As for the other two: Universal Soldier freezes up during the last half of the movie. Reservoir Dogs still seems to play, though I just fast-forwarded and didn't watch the whole movie. Still, things like this make me regret sinking so much money into a movie collection.
There's no security in ownership when a disc can play fine one day and not work at all the next. It wouldn't bother me quite as much if this started happening a couple decades after purchase, but not after only a few years. Apparently Lionsgate is one studio that doesn't offer replacements for defective titles, so I'm just out the cash due to their faulty manufacturing.
11-11-18, 10:00 PM
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Re: Which BD titles have had rot or other issues?
Criterion had a bad run of blu-rays that bronzed.
List and exchange info here: https://www.criterion.com/current/po...efective-discs
List and exchange info here: https://www.criterion.com/current/po...efective-discs
11-12-18, 08:53 AM
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Re: Which BD titles have had rot or other issues?
Why wouldn't Lionsgate replace a disc that's gone bad? That's incredibly anti-consumer. At least they didn't support HD-DVD, that format was an incredible fustercluck. They make MCA DiscoVision discs look good.
11-12-18, 09:40 AM
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Re: Which BD titles have had rot or other issues?
Ignoring the fact that both Criterion and Lionsgate both had issues with Blu-ray Discs...but cool, keep the hate alive.
11-12-18, 01:07 PM
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Re: Which BD titles have had rot or other issues?
At least HD-DVD was region free. The combo discs were fucking stupid though.
11-12-18, 03:34 PM
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Re: Which BD titles have had rot or other issues?
As it turned out, it was good to "keep the hate alive."
The reason being as it was a technically inferior spec which, ultimately, cost consumers big bucks.
However, the good thing to come out of that misadventure was Hollywood learned to avoid Format Wars in the future.
I have had ZERO problems playing the 4K UHD disks in my Oppo.
The reason being as it was a technically inferior spec which, ultimately, cost consumers big bucks.
However, the good thing to come out of that misadventure was Hollywood learned to avoid Format Wars in the future.
I have had ZERO problems playing the 4K UHD disks in my Oppo.
11-12-18, 03:44 PM
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Re: Which BD titles have had rot or other issues?
Are we seriously rehashing the BD vs HD DVD debate in 2018? 
11-12-18, 04:02 PM
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Re: Which BD titles have had rot or other issues?
I've begun hearing of more widespread Blu-ray issues from 2006-2008 pressings. Frankly, I rarely pull out my BDs that old anymore, but people are encountering more and more BDs from that era starting to fail.
Everyone knows the DVD-18s pressed by Universal were terrible. Those have been failing.
Everyone knows the DVD-18s pressed by Universal were terrible. Those have been failing.
11-12-18, 04:09 PM
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Re: Which BD titles have had rot or other issues?
Ancient bump, but this was the first thread I found here regarding BD rot.
This summer, I discovered a huge amount (40+) of defective Warner Bros. DVDs in my collection. Nearly all were from box sets or 2-disc editions produced between 2005-2010. After contacting the studio, they did come through with replacements for about 80% of them after I mailed in the duds.
After that experience, I didn't even want to think about data rot affecting my blu-rays already. Unfortunately, it's also becoming a problem -- at least with early Lionsgate titles released around the same time period as the faulty WB DVDs. Looking at a thread over on the blu-ray site gave me an idea of what titles to inspect first.
Sure enough, I have four Lionsgate blus that have turned a dark yellow color with spots dotting the data side. Two of them (The Phantom and The Relic) will not load at all. Out of all my discs, why did it have to be the these two? Both are out of print and can sell for $50+ on good day. Just my friggin' luck...
As for the other two: Universal Soldier freezes up during the last half of the movie. Reservoir Dogs still seems to play, though I just fast-forwarded and didn't watch the whole movie. Still, things like this make me regret sinking so much money into a movie collection.
There's no security in ownership when a disc can play fine one day and not work at all the next. It wouldn't bother me quite as much if this started happening a couple decades after purchase, but not after only a few years. Apparently Lionsgate is one studio that doesn't offer replacements for defective titles, so I'm just out the cash due to their faulty manufacturing.
This summer, I discovered a huge amount (40+) of defective Warner Bros. DVDs in my collection. Nearly all were from box sets or 2-disc editions produced between 2005-2010. After contacting the studio, they did come through with replacements for about 80% of them after I mailed in the duds.
After that experience, I didn't even want to think about data rot affecting my blu-rays already. Unfortunately, it's also becoming a problem -- at least with early Lionsgate titles released around the same time period as the faulty WB DVDs. Looking at a thread over on the blu-ray site gave me an idea of what titles to inspect first.
Sure enough, I have four Lionsgate blus that have turned a dark yellow color with spots dotting the data side. Two of them (The Phantom and The Relic) will not load at all. Out of all my discs, why did it have to be the these two? Both are out of print and can sell for $50+ on good day. Just my friggin' luck...
As for the other two: Universal Soldier freezes up during the last half of the movie. Reservoir Dogs still seems to play, though I just fast-forwarded and didn't watch the whole movie. Still, things like this make me regret sinking so much money into a movie collection.
There's no security in ownership when a disc can play fine one day and not work at all the next. It wouldn't bother me quite as much if this started happening a couple decades after purchase, but not after only a few years. Apparently Lionsgate is one studio that doesn't offer replacements for defective titles, so I'm just out the cash due to their faulty manufacturing.
Thanks Josh for posting that Criterion info. I'm going to have to check some of those next. I have most of the studio HD-dvd releases and have not touched most of them in almost ten years now. I hope they work lol.
11-12-18, 09:40 PM
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Re: Which BD titles have had rot or other issues?
As it turned out, it was good to "keep the hate alive."
The reason being as it was a technically inferior spec which, ultimately, cost consumers big bucks.
However, the good thing to come out of that misadventure was Hollywood learned to avoid Format Wars in the future.
I have had ZERO problems playing the 4K UHD disks in my Oppo.
The reason being as it was a technically inferior spec which, ultimately, cost consumers big bucks.
However, the good thing to come out of that misadventure was Hollywood learned to avoid Format Wars in the future.
I have had ZERO problems playing the 4K UHD disks in my Oppo.
Region free is so silly. I love region coding. I also love all the players that stopped working with discs because of the Blu-Ray spec changing all the time to
Play catch-up with HD DVD at launch.
And yeah, buying Evan Almighty toilet paper on a HD DVD player was fucking awesome.
...thankfully I don’t buy discs anymore.
11-12-18, 09:45 PM
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Re: Which BD titles have had rot or other issues?
I pulled out The Phantom last night and thankfully it worked fine. I still have my copy of The Relic in shrinkwrap so I have no idea if it works.
Thanks Josh for posting that Criterion info. I'm going to have to check some of those next. I have most of the studio HD-dvd releases and have not touched most of them in almost ten years now. I hope they work lol.
Thanks Josh for posting that Criterion info. I'm going to have to check some of those next. I have most of the studio HD-dvd releases and have not touched most of them in almost ten years now. I hope they work lol.
11-13-18, 12:54 AM
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War was Lionsgate, right? I watched that a couple times recently and it worked. I think there was always something wrong with the lossless track on that though. I don't normally have to switch from the default track on movies, but that one was fucked.
11-13-18, 07:24 AM
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Re: Which BD titles have had rot or other issues?
I think all of my older Lionsgate blus still work... I think all I have is Reservoir Dogs (holofoil cover), My Bloody Valentine remake, and Jennifer’s Body.
Don’t know if I’d bother replacing Jennifer’s Body if it crapped out.
Don’t know if I’d bother replacing Jennifer’s Body if it crapped out.
11-13-18, 07:48 AM
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There is a different version of Reservoir Dogs out now that includes a digital copy. I've seen them in the Best Buy $5.99 bin. Do these include a different disc then?
11-13-18, 08:04 AM
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Re: Which BD titles have had rot or other issues?
Just checked my older LG blus — Reservoir Dogs, My Bloody Valentine, The Crow, and Repo: The Genetic Opera — and they all checked out.
But, man, it really made me miss the old blu-rays when the cases were solid and substantial, and the discs had full color art.
11-13-18, 08:06 AM
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It’s a newer pressing, but it’s probably the exact same contents. You should be safe if you want to pick it up. I don’t think RD was a problemetic disc even though it’s one of Lionsgate’s earlier releases.
11-13-18, 08:12 AM
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I haven't seen it mentioned yet, but my copy of Lionsgate's The Eye (the one with Jessica Alba) won't even load. I have a friend with that disc and he says that his won't load, either. In fact, he's the one who alerted me to its premature demise.