While on this subject, I will mention something about Blu-Rays and the obvious no-brainer thing to do is always test a product upon purchase...
If you don't know, Warner Bros. (and perhaps others) had a bad/defective batch of Blu-Rays released unto the market for their movies and later had to offer a special phone number to offer replacements to customers.
Unfortunately I bought one of them: Superman, the original 1978 with Christopher Reeve. But what I didn't do was immediately unwrap and test the product, I simply left it on my movie storage stand - I bought it as an upgrade to my DVD collection because it's a classic and worth owning but I've seen it plenty of times growing up.
For Blu-Ray classics such as this, I wanted to wait until I purchased a full 1080p HDTV for my next viewing to get the actual benefit, or nowadays, I'd make sure to go for a 4K as I did for my bedroom which does both things very well, TV and monitor usage when connected to a PC. So that's why I didn't immediately test it upon purchase.
Anyway, it was years later when I got the itch to watch it, but when I tried, my Blu-Ray player would tell me it's an invalid disc... So I went to a videostore and asked them to test it which they did with a PS3, and same thing, it was just plain defective... Tried somebody else's player too, still no dice. There were no scratches, no cracks, no visible imperfections, it looks 100% perfect/new, but no Blu-Ray player could read it and it wasn't a matter of old firmware causing bugs...
Point is, watch out for Blu-Rays - you should immediately unwrap and test the disc upon purchase so you can exchange it if need be. As I waited years for my Superman disc, I couldn't exchange it in person at BestBuy -- which I believe is where I bought it -- so I tried the Warner Bros. line when I learned about it, and those clowns sent me a new DVD back instead... So that's how that ended...
Appears other producers have had problems too:
http://www.highdefdigest.com/tags/show/Technical_Glitches
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