Blu-ray coating works!

[navychop]

A guy did a torture test to determine if the Blu-ray disc really stood up to abuse. It did. From the bottom paragraph of this article:

"...He rubbed the data side with steel wool; it still loaded. He tried scratching it with a ballpoint pen; it still loaded. He took a pizza cutter to it; is still loaded. It wasn’t until he gouged the surface repeatedly with the point of a Norman Bates kitchen knife that the poor BD refused to load. ..."

He also published this video.

 

[jgantert]

Loaded is the key word. Loaded. I've had a few bad netflix/BBO rentals load just fine, but wouldn't play thru 100%.

Either way, I do like the coating on the two rentals I've had so far. No scratches at all, but lots of fingerprints. BTW, don't run them thru an old style DVD cleaner. I have one that I use for HD DVDs with no problem, but it left small circular marks on the Blu-Ray disc.

-John

 

[berck]

Impressive. The destruction was across the whole disc in each case. It loaded and played in every case until the knife. Most of my CD's and DVD's wouldn't even survive the steel wool test.

 

[riffjim4069]

Yes, but the Blu-ray coating survive just 5 minutes with a three year old???