Spent 4 hours last night trying to fix a 10 second jump scare glitch in a $5 horror movie

Turns out the bluray was just scratched to hell from some rental place in Omaha and I kept blaming my player for skipping. Has anyone else spent way too long troubleshooting tech just to find out the movie disc itself is the problem?

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the_dylan8d ago

man that Omaha rental place probably had that disc since the early 2000s, those things get so scratched up from kids and people just tossing them back in the case without even looking. four hours though, I feel that deep in my soul because I did the same thing with an old dvd of Alone in the Dark last year, blamed my xbox for skipping and freezing like crazy, cleaned the laser lens twice, even took it apart to blow dust out. turns out the disc had this huge gash right across the middle, like someone used it as a coaster for a beer or something. it's always the stupidest thing that wastes your whole night, right? your player was probably fine the whole time, just sitting there like "man, this disc is beat, what do you want from me.

kim.wren8d ago

Wait so @the_dylan, did you try buffing that Alone in the Dark disc out with toothpaste or anything before you gave up? I always wonder if those old rental spots ever had some secret machine to fix scratched up discs or if they just let them rot