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I don,t get it. I purchased North by Northwest, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Supergirl, Runaway... - all from Varese - back in 1986. These CDs are still pristine nearly four decades later and they play without the hint of an issue.
Now, there are more and more quality issues, not just from Varese, on CDs that are barely a few years old.
Flummoxed am I.
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My copy of PRESUMED INNOCENT has this bubble as well. Have not tested the disc yet.
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Yikes!
My Presumed Innocent: Deluxe Edition has similar bubbles.
On my disc, there are two of them, around the outer edges.
They're difficult to photograph, because my iPhone wants to focus on the reflected image and not on the surface of the disc itself.
You need to hold the disc under bright light and move it back and forth a bit until the light hits it right and you can see the blobs.
I listened to the first 30 seconds of each of the last five tracks, which would be around the outer edge of the disc, where the blobs are on my disc, and it seems to still play okay... for now...
There are very few disc pressing plants left, and I don't think quality control is what it once was, sadly.
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Aye, it's most likely that the original 1990 CD, pressed back in Ye Olde Days, when Quality was under Control, will outlive this newer, Deluxe Edition, with its rubbish wavey lines and lazy glue bubbles.
EVERYBODY CDR THEIR COPY...NOW!!!!
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Well, for me, both Presumed Innocent and The Post have those weird blemishes/blobs as well, but both have ripped and played without problem. I wonder how long those discs are going to hold up. And I wonder how many other discs in my collection that I've not noticed similar issues.
QR issues like this are becoming more and more frequent, especially with recent 4k movie releases.
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Well, for me, both Presumed Innocent and The Post have those weird blemishes/blobs as well, but both have ripped and played without problem. I wonder how long those discs are going to hold up. And I wonder how many other discs in my collection that I've not noticed similar issues.
QR issues like this are becoming more and more frequent, especially with recent 4k movie releases.
I just opened mine up and ripped it. Same patch of coloration, and seems to play fine.
Loving the score, BTW.
It's a fact that QC on optical media is in the toilet now and has been since before the start of the pandemic.
It got worse several years back, but may be getting better- at least based on my own anecdotal experience.
I never would crack everything open as soon as it came in, but I started doing that a couple years back to make sure I could return/replace faulty or scratched discs.
Out of about the last 30 disc purchases (Bd/UHD) I've had serious issues with 10-15% and non-lethal scratches present on another 20% at least.
I've had a handful of CDs that refused to rip properly- two that wouldn't rip at all were both Varese (and both Laurent Eyquem oddly enough).
Any media pressed in Europe doesn't seem to give me problems.
Yeah, I need to get on the ball when it comes to thoroughly checking blu-ray/UHDs and audio discs as soon as they are received. I'm notorious for sitting on unwrapped purchases for a while. Normally, I get too much of these things to fully check them out right away. That's going to get me in trouble eventually when I've waited too long to get a replacement.
The online forums have helped immensely as others are more likely to post problems before I'm even aware.
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I think there's a typo on the back cover of the Presumed Innocent disc case.
It should read "Limited Collectors Edition of 3,000 dodgy discs."
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