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Blue-Ray Disks that rot

Have you ever seen something so irritating than rotting Blue-Ray disks ? Paying $35 for a movie (now available for $22) that is not playable after a few months because of rot ? A user in the AVS forum started a thread showing pictures of the Blue-Ray movie The Prestige that showed dozens of blotches that are apparently underneath the disk surface.

Several other users reported that their disks were showing similar blotches while others said their disks did not have them. Suggestions were that it could be climate related or a coating problem during production on some batches that have been sold.

The thread starter was using a PS3 to play the movie which could be related. There are unfortunately not that many information available at this point but this could be a serious blow for the Blue-Ray supporters if it turned out to be something serious that could happen to all disks.

Do you own a Blue-Ray player and have the movie The Prestige ? How does yours look and which Blue-Ray player do you use ? Click on the images for a larger picture.

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found: Crunchgear

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About the Author:Martin Brinkmann is a journalist from Germany who founded Ghacks Technology News Back in 2005. He is passionate about all things tech and knows the Internet and computers like the back of his hand. You can follow Martin on Facebook or Twitter.

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Responses so far:

  1. Tobey says:

    That’s what serves them right. They shouldn’t have started using Blue-Ray X-D

  2. Tobey says:

    Oh, and I probably know what this is… It’s another rootkit from Sony :-D

  3. brett says:

    well stupid fools that disk is crap i had my rainbow six disk in my ps3 for hours and hours on max spin and no problems oh and movies cause all mine work after a few years

  4. Danny says:

    well you could try and contact blue ray and try to present to them the problem, and then see if the store you bought it at will allow you to exchange it for an other copy?!?!?
    you never know.

  5. divxhacker says:

    cud be new Pay-per-view throwaway moviedisc system, no?

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