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Do newer Blu-ray players not get stuck on scratched discs?

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I have a Panasonic DMP-BD30K thats about a year old. If I get a disc from Netflix that's scratched the player just stops and gets hung up. You can't fast forward throught that point. All you can do is skip to the next scene and try to keep watching.

Do newer players handle disc problems better?
 
Originally posted by: destrekor
A scratched DVD or scratched Blu-ray disc?
If its the latter, I am extremely confused
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I only ever have the problem with Blu-ray discs. Seems I have an issue every one out of fifteen or so that I get from Netflix.
 
I've only ever seen a scratched BD once (and I've rented at least 50) and it refused to play all the way through on my player.
 
Just got an LG BD-Rom a few weeks ago. So far, it hasn't failed to play anything. Although I haven't noticed if any of the disks were scratched or not.
 
Originally posted by: Jumpem
Originally posted by: destrekor
A scratched DVD or scratched Blu-ray disc?
If its the latter, I am extremely confused
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I only ever have the problem with Blu-ray discs. Seems I have an issue every one out of fifteen or so that I get from Netflix.
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Is it a scratched disc, or chipped? Dealing with rentals that are mailed frequently results in a higher chance of chipping a disc, even if a tiny nick in the far edge or inner ring. Once that happens, I bet most Blu-ray players will choke during playback, if it even loads.

Blu-rays might be more prone to chipping. But I have yet to see a single scratch on any BD I've come across. Either my games or rented movies, or movies I own. I'll use any material to wipe a disc clean from fingerprints and my PS3 games I'll often leave lying near the PS3, out of the case, just because I don't care anymore because normal use has yet to result in an actual scratch. Any DVD disc I stick in its case immediately. I've always babied games and movies but the PS3 BDs have made me lazy and fully expect to never scratch a disc.
 
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Because the Blu-ray Disc data layer is closer to the surface of the disc, compared to the DVD standard, it was at first more vulnerable to scratches.[citation needed] The first discs were housed in cartridges for protection.

TDK was the first company to develop a working scratch protection coating for Blu-ray Discs. It was named Durabis. In addition, both Sony and Panasonic's replication methods include proprietary hard-coat technologies. Sony's rewritable media are spin-coated with a scratch-resistant and antistatic coating. Verbatim's recordable and rewritable Blu-ray Disc discs use their own proprietary hard-coat technology called ScratchGuard.
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Much harder to scratch than standard DVD's, you have to try at it.
 
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