Quickly Checking a Blu-Ray For Playback Issues

[Aikouka]

I purchased Person of Interest season one and two on Blu-Ray last month, and while watching them, I had a few ~30 second skips in random episodes. It wasn't major, but I didn't think I should accept a manufacturing flaw like that. So, I asked Amazon to send me a replacement. So, now that I have the replacement copies, how do I make sure that they aren't flawed without actually sitting down and watching them? I tried a Google search, and I didn't come back with anything.

Anyone run into this issue before?

 

[fralexandr]

Does it skip around the same time during playback?
what device were you playing the blu-ray on? and is this a new disk?
other than the generic have you tried cleaning the disk with a microfiber cloth (for fingerprints/dust/etc) or firmware updating?:

take a really good look at the shiny/read side of the disk.
I've had several rental blurays not play or skip over several parts on my ps3, mostly from almost imperceptible scratches. They play fine on my pc blu-ray drives (work fine on my LG UH08LS10 and my brothers Pioneer bdr-2206), sometimes with artifacts or such in the places the ps3 skipped.
I've read some standalone bluray players have this issue too.

It could be either a density based issue (doesn't help that data is stored 0.1mm from the read surface) or DRM. I recall having a bluray game with minor scratches (bought used) play fine on my ps3, so I'd guess DRM plays a big role.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Comparison_CD_DVD_HDDVD_BD.svg

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a thread from blu-ray forums
http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=77934
I'm not sure if that actually happens, but does the skipping occur for certain durations on the disks? the person of interest disks also happen to be 50gb disks so if it starts halfway through and continues to do so periodically, it might be related to the 2nd data layer, which probably wouldn't be visible.
Dual layer disks seem to be slightly more problematic than single layer disks in general

example image of layering in blurays
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=1750

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also, some players apparently have problems with blu-ray live which can cause skipping (fixed by disabling blu-ray live).

 

[Aikouka]

I don't believe that it's a layering issue. I've played BD50 movies, and I've never had an issue like what I saw with Person of Interest. If I remember correctly, the BD50 layer change just introduces a slight pause into the playback (if anything), but this isn't a pause. On the PS3, the movie paused for a few seconds, and then jumped ahead 30 seconds or so. On TMT6, the video/audio just froze up while the time kept chugging along at normal speed until it hit the same point where the PS3 came back.

Also, both seasons had four BD discs, and the first season only had two discs with the skips and the second season only had one bad disc.

Overall, I just want to be able to make sure that my discs don't have defects, but there doesn't seem to be a solution to handle this.

Does it skip around the same time during playback?

Yes.

what device were you playing the blu-ray on?

I originally played it on my PS3 (latest firmware), and I wrote down the episodes and the times where it skipped. I then took the disc to my PC and played it using ArcSoft's Total Media Theater 6, and it also skipped there.

and is this a new disk?

Yes.

 

[fralexandr]

You could try ripping it with makemkv or something right?
don't ripping programs usually tell you if something's corrupt/won't read correctly?