Deep Discount Defective DVDs

I usually purchase most of my DVDs from Amazon, but I use Deep Discount DVD
for box sets because they tend to be cheaper. Last year I bought Homicide:
Life on the Street (HLOTS), Season 3 from DDD and had a defective disc in
the set. I sent the set back and DDD replaced it without a hassle. Earlier
this year, I purchased HLOTS, Season 4 from DDD and have now discovered a
defective disc in this set as well.

Now I'm wondering if DDD stocks defective merchandise (which is why their
prices are low), or if the quality control on the HLOTS DVDs is just not
very good.

Has anyone else noticed a trend of defective discs from Deep Discount?

 

I would be more suspicous of the manufacturers of the HLOTS sets, than of
DD...unless you have other box sets from DD that also have defective discs
in them?

 

I would be more suspicous of the manufacturers of the HLOTS sets, than of

I don't have any other defective sets or discs. In fact, these 2 incidents
are the first defective DVDs I've ever experienced from any retailer or
manufacturer. Maybe the culprit is the HLOTS manufacturer.

 

My experience with DVD has taught me two things.

1. The more complex the format, the more chances for errors.
2. The more you buy DVDs (and everyone seems to be buying DVDs more casually
then they did VHS), the more chances of finding a defective disc.
I've bought about 700 in the last 7 years, and have come across about 10
defective discs.

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I've bought well over 20 DVD's from DeepDiscount and have never had a
defective disc.

 

I've not gotten any defective disks from DDD and I've probably spent
well over $1000 with them.

Furthermore how would the manufacturer tell if disks were defective?
The process of testing them for defects would probably be very expensive
and if they found defects why in the world would they package them and
sell them? I assume that the cost of actually pressing an individual
disk is only a few pennies once all the overhead is taken care of, so it
would make no sense to try to recoup the cost of manufacturing a bad disk.

dick

 

I've purchased quite a few DVDs from multiple sources, including DDDVD, over
the past couple of years; and its been my experience that a lot of discs
regardless of source have defects (maybe 5 out of every 10 or even a higher
percentage). Usually the defects are just very minor things like a brief
pause here or there, but occassionally one does have a drastic defect that
renders it unplayable (maybe 1 out of every 25 to 50 discs). Based on this
high frequency, it doesn't appear as though the DVD manufacturers implement
any kind of quality control or have ever heard of the concept. However,
that's probably not really true. They probably do know about quality
control, but just figure its more economical to let the retailers replace
the defective discs, which probably cost next to nothing to manufacture.

srt

 

The "brief pause here or there" is a layer change. It is normal. It is
not a defect. Most DVDs have these layer changes. Some may be better
hidden than others.

Especially when they know that a lot of people don't even bother.