After over 2,000 DVD, my second bad DVD

[Wilykit]

First one was some years ago, a Disney DVD up and woudn't play at all on anything. Disney sent me a new one for free.

Today a brand new DVD wasn't playing well. Tried on my DVD player and on my laptop, the video was garbled and corrupt like badly scratched disc or satellite video during storm. The disc had no sign of discoloration or scratch or anything so it seems to just went bad for no reason. It can't be the CSS issue, other disc played just fine.

Going to have to take Avengers DVD back to local store for exchange. I can understand DVD going bad due to poor seal protecting the data layer, early dual layer were pretty bad but how can a brand new DVD be bad right out of the box? If it was bad press, there should have been multuiple returns and complaints eventually leading to recall for replacement. There is no discoloration and no scratch anywhere.

I have around 1600 DVD and about 100 BDs and had another 400 or so DVD that I've sold off or given away, 2 bad discs out of those is still pretty low failure rate. (another 1,000 or so for CD, PC games discs, video game discs, etc and none went bad)

[Kerry56]

Manufacturing defects do occur. Perhaps one of the very last discs pressed with this particular stamper.