I have never made a blu-ray at home, but I was just thinking about something. Do the blu-rays that you make at home have the same anti-scratch coating that the commercial ones do ? Probably not. If not, then I'll just stick with dvd.

I would doubt it but perhaps they put the coating on the media before authoring. I don't bother with burning any more. I used to burn so I could watch at my leisure and take copies when I traveled without worrying about damage. Now I don't travel, so I rent, watch, return. I ended up with albums of unwatched DVD's I just threw out.

Sorry, but the ones I've seen do have the hard coating.

By simply Googlizing, it looks like any blank Blu Ray media will have this coat. I doubt any authoring companies that manufacture Blu Ray movies burn the content then put the coating on after. If I recall, when the specs for Blu ray were set, the coating was a required part of the disc. You may want to go to blu-ray.com for any FAQs on it. They may have something on this.

http://www.supermediastore.com/produ...BATIM&offset=0

Way too early for that thread title, it's like a damn riddle

No reason why it wouldn't. All that needs to happen is have the laser be able to pass through it to make the disc. If it couldn't do that, we'd all have players that couldn't play anything.

Doing the coating after putting content on a disc would be an extra cost that companies would start dropping(while leaving prices unchanged of course).

There are a couple of points in this thread that I'd like to clarify:

First, commercially made Blu-rays, just like CDs and DVDs, are not burned. They're pressed. Burning is done on home computers.

Second, authoring and manufacturing are two different things. Authoring is the creation of the data structure of the disc --- the content, menus, etc.

I wasn't trying to get the lingo exactly right, except to say that the coating would be a part of the disc already when blank BD's are purchased. I'm more curious as to why the OP would base his decision to burn content solely based on this coating alone. Seems like an odd way to chose to make a decision like burning stuff at home.