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Sunday
June 17, 2007

Blu-ray discs are rotting

Female Jackie D | Category: Digital

Well, I'm no fan of Sony's new format, but I understand there are some people around here who are Blu-ray customers. I hope this doesn't happen to them:

A thread over at the AVS Forums has highlighted a potential problem with the coating of Blu-ray discs, described by many as "disc rot" due to the mould-like spots that have made several owner's Blu-ray discs unplayable. The five page thread has reports from dozens of forum members, many of them discovering spots which can't be rubbed off on Blu-ray versions of "The Prestige." It's impossible to judge how widespread the problem is from a single forum thread, although it's not unheard of to see a product recall after a problem is discovered by users on a forum.

Kinda sucks for Blockbuster, which has just announced that it will go exclusively Blu-ray for HD discs.
Link via Brian Micklethwait


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