DL.TV says Blu-ray protective coating sucks, won't play after being scratched

**hidefimports** · 02-01-2008 03:23 PM

On 1/31/08 DL.TV, they tested Blu-ray protective coating. It was scratch up with a steel wool and did not work afterwards.

The TDK protective coating on its DVD-R is better.

Link provided: http://dl.tv/

**RunnerX** · 02-01-2008 03:27 PM

Are you on drugs!!!!

**Blu** · 02-01-2008 03:27 PM

Originally Posted by hidefimports

On 1/31/08 DL.TV, they tested Blu-ray protective coating. It was scratch up with a steel wool and did not work afterwards.

The TDK protective coating on its DVD-R is better.

How's TDKs protective coating on it's HD-DVD-R's?

**SRFan** · 02-01-2008 03:28 PM

Who are DL:TV and why should we care?
My Netflix blu-ray's don't have a single scratch on them, but they come full of fingerprints and sometimes skip/won't play for this reason. I wipe them off with a paper towel, and they're gone, if I did the same thing with DVD's, they'd have new scratches in them. Not to mention a lot of DVD's arrive scratched and unplayable. The scratch protection may not protect against steel wool but as long as it protects against dust particles as I wipe the discs down, it's good.

**balthazarr** · 02-01-2008 03:29 PM

Originally Posted by hidefimports

On 1/31/08 DL.TV, they tested Blu-ray protective coating. It was scratch up with a steel wool and did not work afterwards.

The TDK protective coating on its DVD-R is better.

Steel wool - are you kidding?

How does it hold up to general handling?

Steel wool

**Geoff Gibson** · 02-01-2008 03:30 PM

Thanks for the heads up! I was going to take Steel Wool to my Blu-Ray Discs over the weekend. Now I won't. You're a lifesaver!

**hidefimports** · 02-01-2008 03:31 PM

http://dl.tv

Blu-ray stop working after being scratched.

**atlincan** · 02-01-2008 03:32 PM

That protective coating is a big problem. I was pretty upset when I found out my BDs wouldn't play after I burned them.

**balthazarr** · 02-01-2008 03:32 PM

DL.TV - 'In other news: Water is wet'

**mitchl** · 02-01-2008 03:34 PM

With steel wool it didn't play. Who the fuck cares about that?

How about the HD-DVDs that are getting scratched by the caddy in normal use? How many rental HD-DVDs are getting scratched from normal wear and tear to where they can't play?

Is a Blu-ray as likely to play normally after normal wear and tear as a regular DVD? Because we know that HD-DVD is not as durable as DVD.

So far for me, 3 Reds from Blockbuster too scratched to play. MORE Blus have been rented, and zero have failed to play flawlessly.

The guys at DL.TV were not so long ago had hard ons for HD-DVD, so much so that Patrick Norton, now on Tekzilla, said that nobody bought a PS3 for movie use. When I emailed him, he said I was the first he ever heard of.

**Stranger Danger** · 02-01-2008 03:35 PM

Originally Posted by Geoff Gibson

Thanks for the heads up! I was going to take Steel Wool to my Blu-Ray Discs over the weekend. Now I won't. You're a lifesaver!

too funny

**B.Greenway** · 02-01-2008 03:41 PM

Hmm a similar test was reported months ago on AVS (with different results i.e. it worked) and everyone was proclaiming the superior scratch protection of Blu-ray.

**f1ipmode** · 02-01-2008 03:43 PM

Originally Posted by hidefimports

http://dl.tv

Blu-ray stop working after being scratched.

Best smackdown statement EVER, "Blu-ray stop working"

**michealo** · 02-01-2008 03:43 PM

they "purposely" damage the disk with steel wool and are surprised it didn't work?
protective layer != scratch proof

utterly ridiculous.
i'm completely convinced that hidefimports is deadmeat posting under a new name.

**steaky** · 02-01-2008 03:45 PM

The protective coating is great for NORMAL USE. Im not using the discs to clean my steel wool, or my diamonds. Idiots.

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