{"id":1430,"date":"2010-03-16T06:11:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T19:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=1430"},"modified":"2010-03-16T13:22:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T02:22:18","slug":"blu-ray-layer-rot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=1430","title":{"rendered":"Blu-ray layer rot?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other night one of my daughters wanted to watch The Godfather: Part II<\/a><\/em> with a friend. All was going very nicely until 1:42:32 into the movie, when it became a stillie. The picture froze for a minute or so, and eventually jumped to 1:58:30.<\/p>\n

I was using the Oppo BDP-83, which is seemingly impervious to disc problems<\/a>. I pulled the disc and inspected the surface, and it seemed clean, so I put it in an Oppo BDP-80 which I’m checking out at the moment. Same problem. So I put it in a Playstation 3. Same problem.<\/p>\n

My records show that I got this disc back in October 2008. I have watched the movie all the way through with no problems at all at least once. I scanned it all the way through using BDInfo<\/a> on 26 May 2009, no problems. But since then it has ceased to work. I’ve given the disc a gentle clean, especially around the edge — since the problems are halfway through the movie and this dual layer Blu-ray disc’s contents come to 45.35GB, of which almost all is the movie, suggesting they are near the edge (Blu-ray discs read, like DVDs, from the disc centre towards the edge and then back again in the case of two layers).<\/p>\n

All this is somewhat reminiscent of DVD rot<\/a> which was a problem some years ago.<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong> (1:12pm): Treblid in comments has some links into discussion of this problem on various forums, so I’m not alone. It seems to afflict UK discs primarily, but as I demonstrate here<\/a>, the UK and Australian discs seem to be the same.<\/p>\n

I am making enquiries with Paramount about what arrangements they have in place for replacement discs. It seems to be quite consistent: if the disc is faulty it will stop playing about 1:41:30. Just jump to 1:41:00 and wait to see what happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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