Okay.. a few weeks ago I watched a movie start->finish perfectly fine. And tonight I went to watch it again, and partway through it just went completely nuts, almost like the disk was badly scratched (freezing, skipping, etc). Now, I took the disk out, and there is no visible damage anywhere. The only concern is there is a huge chunk (like 1/4 almost) of the dvd which looks like there is no data written there at all.

 

The disk is only like.. a few months old, no exposure to high heat, etc. Anything which would typically damage the disk. And no other movies around it experience the same problems. Am I basically screwed and need to buy the movie again? :mellow:

Have your tried to play it in another DVD player? what are you trying to play it in at the moment? PC or standalone?

 

Teshi...

The only thing you can really do is try it in every different player you have. If it works in one of them, figure out someway to copy it as quick as possible. If not you are screwed. Supposedly DVDs only have a shelf life of 3-5 years. I think that number is low, I have quite a few older than that that still work. Actually not any that don't.

 

Oh, and look for scratches on the top side and near the inner ring. The data is actually closer to the top under the sticker/paper whatever it is. The inner ring most likely has the file structure data, and that could screw up 1/4th of the disc if scratched.

There is no visible damage anywhere. And I did try in multiple devices, PS3, PC, standard DVD player... even a macbook. And on that topic, when it was played in the pc and mac, rather than... nice crisp picture and then skipping, etc. It was.. blurred. Like 5+ copies of the frame would be visible... like watching 3d without the glasses (if you get that). But that didn't happen on the PS3 or standard dvd player... no other movies do that either.

 

 

 

And for reference, most of my dvds are well over 5years, and none have suffered anything like this :-\