Blu-ray durability?

[Rrita]

Are the Blu-ray discs more resistant to scratches than DVDs? I have a video store & the number of DVDs that are no longer viewable is ridiculous. I am to the point that I prefer VHS over DVD! Personal libraries are fine. But, it is a known fact that customers do not respect rental property as much as their own. So, I'm REALLY hoping that the Blu-rays will be more durable. I'm a small Mom & POP store...in fact since my husband's death I am a Mom store and really can't afford an expensive disc repair system.

[hmurchison]

Blu-Ray has an extremely tough coating on the top that should prevent a majority of scratches.

I'm thinking it would be nice if the movie industry made special "hardened" discs just for rental so that you wouldn't have to keep replacing your movies. The cost increase would be negligble.

[Psiweaver]

Yeah they really should do that but remember they really don't want the rental stores buying the movies and renting them nearly as much as they want each person to buy themselves a disc for their personal collection.

[Ascended_Saiyan]

Blu-ray has a hard .1mm coating of Durabis (a TDK technology). It is about the hardest clear substance next to diamond! Read more about the steel wool abrasion tests.

[JTK]

Originally Posted by Rrita

I'm a small Mom & POP store...in fact since my husband's death

I am a Mom store and really can't afford an expensive disc repair system.

Blu-ray is VERY durable. Take a look at what these guys posted before me.

Just like anything else: If people are careful and use common sense, you'll never have any problems.

[zombie]

Originally Posted by Ascended_Saiyan

Blu-ray has a hard .1mm coating of Durabis (a TDK technology). It is about the hardest clear substance next to diamond! Read more about the steel wool abrasion tests.

At this time none of the Blu-ray movie discs use Durabis. Instead they use an alternative protective coating that is also said to be efficient. That said, it appears only TDK's BD-Rs will use Durabis for now.

[Psiweaver]

yeah durabis is a little pricy for the studios.

[Dave]

Originally Posted by Psiweaver

yeah durabis is a little pricy for the studios.

I am only into PC Drive use, backup/storage with blu-ray and thats why no mather the price i will use only TDK media for my data! Also i will use the bigest available media sizes!

[marzetta7]

Originally Posted by Dave

I am only into PC Drive use, backup/storage with blu-ray and thats why no mather the price i will use only TDK media for my data! Also i will use the bigest available media sizes!

What I'm thinking too, is to use Mandatory Managed Copy to leverage the TDK discs with the Durabis. In essence, keeping the actual movies I purchased as master copies.

Then that way, if one of my three boys decides to drag one of my TDK copies across the tile, outside on to the cement, and bury it in the ground, I won't have to end their life. Just make another copy, that's all, with Durabis protection.

Also, as a side note when using logical deduction, when you see this statement...

In comparison to conventional DVD media, discs incorporating DURABIS technology boast approximately 100 times greater scratch resistance.

Then, can't it be said that Blu-ray discs leveraging Durabis will then be 100 times greater in scratch resistance that HD DVD since HD DVD will be doing nothing in terms of protecting your data other than what is in place for conventional DVD media? I've been saying this for a while, and I do think indeed you can make an arugument in this regard.

[theknub]

marzetta, you could conceivably say that it is actually even greater than that. since the data is packed that much closer together on the disc, a same size scratch could corrupt much more data.

[Psiweaver]

exactly and thats just on double layer discs I hate to think about some of hte triple layer discs.