Scratch Resistant Disks?

[SydneyLightz]

I just found out the Blu Ray disks are Scratch Resistant. Crazy nice. ( yeah,better late then never eh? )

Question - does anyone have a PS3 game,thats so scratched it doesn't work?

haha would like to see some real world experiences.

[stayzer]

I on purpose did scratch one of my games to living shit the entire thing is scratched and it doesn't work

[shen365]

I got a used copy of CoD: WaW and it was scratch city... Brought it home and it didn't work D:

[Bash]

Since the date on the bluray date comes really close to the plastic protective part [then DVDs] they put a scratch resistance layer on it, so they are hard to scratch but they aren't scratch proof.

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Hard-coating technology

Since the Blu-ray Disc data layer is closer to the surface of the disc compared to the DVD standard, it was at first more vulnerable to scratches.[52] The first discs were housed in cartridges for protection, resembling Professional Discs introduced by Sony in 2003.

Using a cartridge would increase price of already expensive media, so hard-coating of the pickup surface was chosen instead. TDK was the first company to develop a working scratch-protection coating for Blu-ray Discs. It was named Durabis. In addition, both Sony and Panasonic's replication methods include proprietary hard-coat technologies. Sony's rewritable media are spin-coated, using a scratch-resistant and antistatic coating. Verbatim's recordable and rewritable Blu-ray Discs use their own proprietary hard-coat technology, called ScratchGuard.

All Blu-Ray Disc media is required to use hard-coating. DVD media is not required to be scratch-resistant, but since development of the technology some companies like Verbatim implemented hard-coating for more expensive lineups of recordable DVDs.

Blu-ray Disc - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[shorty920]

Personally none of my ps3 games have ever been stratched nor have I ever received a scratched game when I buy used off ebay. Personally I treat all my games well so my games never scratch. These disc are very sturdy.

[SydneyLightz]

Originally Posted by IllBashU

Hard-coating technology

Since the Blu-ray Disc data layer is closer to the surface of the disc compared to the DVD standard, it was at first more vulnerable to scratches.[52] The first discs were housed in cartridges for protection, resembling Professional Discs introduced by Sony in 2003.

Using a cartridge would increase price of already expensive media, so hard-coating of the pickup surface was chosen instead. TDK was the first company to develop a working scratch-protection coating for Blu-ray Discs. It was named Durabis. In addition, both Sony and Panasonic's replication methods include proprietary hard-coat technologies. Sony's rewritable media are spin-coated, using a scratch-resistant and antistatic coating. Verbatim's recordable and rewritable Blu-ray Discs use their own proprietary hard-coat technology, called ScratchGuard.

All Blu-Ray Disc media is required to use hard-coating. DVD media is not required to be scratch-resistant, but since development of the technology some companies like Verbatim implemented hard-coating for more expensive lineups of recordable DVDs.

Blu-ray Disc - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

cheers for the info mate,scratchguard sounds nice, and cool @ everyone else haha, I'm going to hit up youtube and see if anyone did a blu ray scratch test.