Posted: 1/9/2010 10:00:11 PM EDT
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Anyone buy a boxed DVD set but have a bad disk inside?
There is a chain store in my area going out of business, and their stuff is 50% off right now. But, if I buy a set, there is a chance that one of the discs will be bad, and since I wouldn't watch them all at once, by the time I found out, I wouldn't be able to return them. Should I take the risk? What is the dud rate on DVDs? |
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I buy a lot of boxed sets and have occasionally had a bad disk. Just had one this past Christmas, actually.
That said, they are infrequent (I'd guesstimate only about 2% of the time) and are most typically ones that got damaged during manufacturing. The most recent one had surface scratches on the last disk of the set. I have had one before that looked like the disk had been thrown down a gravel driveway (hmmm...). A few years ago I used to periodically encounter ones that actually had transfer issues, but I haven't seen that in a while. So, if it was me, I would buy it and do a quick "count and condition" check. If everything looks good, it probably is. |