Is this defect rate normal?!
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2025 2:35 am
To date, I've bought 6 UHD movies via scam-a-zon and all were sold as 'new' from amazon.com directly. No 3rd parties involved, no used inventory. Of the 6 disks, 2 have had scratches that make the disk unreadable. Also, one of the normal blu-rays had a scratch that made it unreadable. They were all circumferential scratches, and in both cases, I visually saw the scratches before I ever inserted them in my drive, so I know it wasn't my drive that caused them.
Is this normal? Do I need to worry about amazon giving me shit for requesting a replacement on 3 out of the 4 UHD orders I've made (one of them was a movie bundle)? This error rate seems absolutely absurd. I know the type of scratches indicate they are reselling used merch as new, and I can't say I understand how/why that is in any way legal. But that's a problem beyond me at the moment.
Side note: Why cant' they just give up this stupid DRM overpriced nonsense. Sell movies on microsd cards for like $5. Nobody would bother to pirate them because they are so cheap. And you could play them back on a raspberry pi. /endgripe.
Is this normal? Do I need to worry about amazon giving me shit for requesting a replacement on 3 out of the 4 UHD orders I've made (one of them was a movie bundle)? This error rate seems absolutely absurd. I know the type of scratches indicate they are reselling used merch as new, and I can't say I understand how/why that is in any way legal. But that's a problem beyond me at the moment.
Side note: Why cant' they just give up this stupid DRM overpriced nonsense. Sell movies on microsd cards for like $5. Nobody would bother to pirate them because they are so cheap. And you could play them back on a raspberry pi. /endgripe.