goHastings occasional defective disc

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Originally Posted by growler

No, I don't have another player & don't know anyone locally that has BD! Wish I had the ability to do that. I have, however exchanged two previous BDs that froze & the new disc played perfectly so I am fairly certain the issue was with those (used) discs. I do wonder if my BD player has "lost" the ability to play slightly scratched or defective discs w/o freezing. Maybe error correction circuitry does not work as well as it once did? I have all the latest firmware updates. I have Panasonic DMP BD80 from 2009.

With all the great sales & deals the past couple years, I bought a large # of BDs & despite watching one almost every day, I have a large backlog!

try taking it to a place like best buy or something and feign needing to "test out" a blu-ray player etc like you're gonna buy. if it plays in those it may be the laser in your player going south.