Defective DVDs

[The Burgomaster]

How often do you buy or rent DVDs that are defective?

I have somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,000 DVDs and I have only purchased 4 that were defective.  I got replacements for 3 of them, but I had the other one (NUDE ON THE MOON) sitting on my shelf in the shrink wrap for so long before I tried to watch it that I no longer had the receipt and couldn't return it.

Have you experienced any major problems with defective DVDs?



Post Edited (11-17-03 13:43)

[StatCat]

The only one I had that happen with was the Dario Argento Opera dvd.  I bought it when it first came out and all of them were really defective so they reissued it again and had to replace them all. I didn't find out about that until about a year later when I tried to play it and it wouldn't work at all (the last time I watched it was the day I got it and it worked.)  Anchor Bay sent me a new copy and a bonus shrinkwrapped dvd for my trouble.

[Ash]

I borrowed "All About the Benjamins" from my sister and for some reason it would not play in my player.  
I put other DVD's of mine in to check to see if they worked and they played ok.
I never did get to watch it...from what I was told about it I take it that I was spared from having to sit through a crappy movie.

I checked the region & my player should've been able to play it but it didn't.
When I gave it back to my sister I told her that it wouldn't work and she put it in her DVD player and it played just fine!

I have no idea why it didn't work in my DVD player.



Post Edited (11-17-03 22:21)

[Scott]

Yes, only two. "100 YEARS OF HORROR hosted by Christopher Lee the sound was muffled and KILL BABY KILL which was a good film but the disk would freeze at parts and then stop all together at one point. I had the receipt for KILL BABY KILL, but I was able to exchange it for something else. The Christorpher Lee film I've kept because I threw away the receipt.

[daveblackeye15]

The nearest I got for a Defective DVD is for some reason one of my "Fist of the North Star" t.v. show DVDs won't work on my brother's playstation 2 but it works just fine on my mom's DVD player. I dunno.

[Brian Ringler]

Jeepers Creepers wouldn't work in my toshiba player, but that dvd had problems with some older players.  Sent the dvd back to mgm and they said I could pick up any dvd of equal value so I got Ghost World in exchange.

[Eirik]

I've never bought a defective one, but I have rented about a DOZEN defective ones from various video stores in my area over tha past year or so.  Sometimes the screen gets oddly pixelated a few times...  other times the movie just freezes up at some random point and you have to jump to the next scene to keep going.  The common thread seems to be scratches all over the metallic side.  The scratches look like they must be deliberate - I can't imagine anyone being careless enough to scratch a DVD that much - even if it is just rented.  p**ses me off - I've started checking the DVDs for scratches before I leave the store.

[Haze]

I see to be a magnet for the damned things, that or I just buy from s**tty suppliers. Either way, it sucks.

My first Killer Klowns From Outer Space DVD is a good example.