Translucent blu ray discs

[sketchball]

Does anyone else have problems ripping translucent blu ray discs? These are the discs that are much easier to see through when held up to light than the older, more opaque Blu Ray discs. I get these kinds of discs now in about 20% of my Netflix deliveries. If they have even the smallest imperfection on the surface of the disc, the rip eventually fails with read errors. I have tried 3 different drives with the same frustrating results across multiple discs of this type.

I've searched the Googles and I cannot find anyone else having the same, consistent problem as I am experiencing. Anyone have any useful advice?

The Drives:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00H2 ... UTF8&psc=1
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004S ... UTF8&psc=1
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00OL ... 173&sr=8-1

Examples discs from Netflix:
Contact
Pride and Prejudice
The Goonies
Dumb and Dumber
Rambo

[Woodstock]

If the focus on the drive is "to spec", the transparency should not be a factor. Most disks I get are this way, and I'm not having issues with them. Inside the drive, there's no light coming through from the top.

Netflix disks, though, have a tendency to be flawed. They'll play acceptably when the player skips over errors, but rippers aren't so kind.

[sketchball]

That's what I figured, but the evidence is to the contrary. Almost every one of the translucent discs fails in all three drives (2 of which are brand new). The only translucents that work are the ones that are in absolutely mint condition. The more opaque discs can have lots of light scratches and still work fine. I suppose if the translucents are more susceptible to damage, then it would make sense that netflix discs are nonfunctional as they get far more abuse than privately owned blurays.

[electronicsguy]

Does anyone else have problems ripping translucent blu ray discs? These are the discs that are much easier to see through when held up to light than the older, more opaque Blu Ray discs. I get these kinds of discs now in about 20% of my Netflix deliveries. If they have even the smallest imperfection on the surface of the disc, the rip eventually fails with read errors. I have tried 3 different drives with the same frustrating results across multiple discs of this type.

I've searched the Googles and I cannot find anyone else having the same, consistent problem as I am experiencing. Anyone have any useful advice?

The Drives:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00H2 ... UTF8&psc=1
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004S ... UTF8&psc=1
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00OL ... 173&sr=8-1

Examples discs from Netflix:
Contact
Pride and Prejudice
The Goonies
Dumb and Dumber
Rambo

You are not supposed to be using MakeMKV for ripping Netflix discs, so i think this discussion is moot. Any problems you face have to be solved without the help of users on this forum.

[AndrewJ]

Does anyone else have problems ripping translucent blu ray discs? These are the discs that are much easier to see through when held up to light than the older, more opaque Blu Ray discs. I get these kinds of discs now in about 20% of my Netflix deliveries. If they have even the smallest imperfection on the surface of the disc, the rip eventually fails with read errors. I have tried 3 different drives with the same frustrating results across multiple discs of this type.

I don't have useful advice but I'll add a me too. So many discs that looks perfect, I can't see a single potential issue, but are transparent fail to back up using MakeMKV. I pretty much know it will fail if I can see through the blu-ray. Fortunately there aren't that many of them but it sucks that they so often don't work.

[Flesh]

Stupid question, but out of curiosity have you guys tried gluing a paper cutout on the back or something? Wondering if that'd be enough.