Somebody please comment on whether the DVD corruption issue has been addressed. Over 10% of the DVD movies I rent from NetFlix or Blockbuster have massive chunks of unplayable data on them. I even bought a new DVD player thinking it was me, and same thing. Friends see about the same rate of unplayable DVD's coming out of netflix.
How in the world can Blu-Ray and HD-DVD be MORE reliable than DVD when they have a much higher data density? If HD-DVD fixes the problem with media being unplayable (?!), I'm there.
I'm not seeing anywhere near the problems you are having with DVDs. Some are damaged or scratched to the point of not being playable, but I'd say the in total about 1% of the discs I get from Netflix have problems of any kind. (I did use Blockbuster for a short time and they had a higher rate of damaged discs, but still not 10%.)
Supposedly the HD formats do have a better coating to minimize scratches. We'll see.
You're renting movies. Of course there'll be problems. Not every customer takes good care of the rented movies like you do.
And you're talking about DVD also. This is HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. I don't know if HD-DVDs have this problem, but it seems only this one movie does for the Blu-Ray discs. It's probably a faulty manufacture. Something messed up. It can happen on any disc.
So just because one company made a small mistake, you can't take it out on the whole format and every other company that has done it right. That's immature thinking.
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Mike B&W @ Jun 16th 2007 8:03PM
Somebody please comment on whether the DVD corruption issue has been addressed. Over 10% of the DVD movies I rent from NetFlix or Blockbuster have massive chunks of unplayable data on them. I even bought a new DVD player thinking it was me, and same thing. Friends see about the same rate of unplayable DVD's coming out of netflix.
How in the world can Blu-Ray and HD-DVD be MORE reliable than DVD when they have a much higher data density? If HD-DVD fixes the problem with media being unplayable (?!), I'm there.
Mojo_Yugen @ Jun 18th 2007 10:29AM
I'm not seeing anywhere near the problems you are having with DVDs. Some are damaged or scratched to the point of not being playable, but I'd say the in total about 1% of the discs I get from Netflix have problems of any kind. (I did use Blockbuster for a short time and they had a higher rate of damaged discs, but still not 10%.)
Supposedly the HD formats do have a better coating to minimize scratches. We'll see.
David @ Jun 19th 2007 9:37AM
Do you know what you're on about?
You're renting movies. Of course there'll be problems. Not every customer takes good care of the rented movies like you do.
And you're talking about DVD also. This is HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. I don't know if HD-DVDs have this problem, but it seems only this one movie does for the Blu-Ray discs. It's probably a faulty manufacture. Something messed up. It can happen on any disc.
So just because one company made a small mistake, you can't take it out on the whole format and every other company that has done it right. That's immature thinking.