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Is it just my luck, or do others have issues with the DVDs from Netflix? A high percentage of mine stop, skip, jump, or just plain won't play. Some of them I've sent back because it's next to impossible to watch them at all, others we've just skipped ahead or whatever it takes to make them play. But we shouldn't have to do that. And, no, it's not because we have an old player, we just got a new Blu-Ray player a while ago.
Does anyone else have this problem, or am I the only lucky one??
I used to have the same problem.
Heavily used DVDs develop physical scratches and other damage that causes this.
I have mainly solved this problem by cleaning each Netflix DVD before using it. This creates a high probability the DVD will play all the way through, and it keeps my DVD player cleaner.
Go buy some "Plexus" anti-static plastic cleaner protectant & polish. Spray it on the silver down side, not the label side. Then wipe briskly with a fairly clean microfiber cloth. You don't need a new microfiber cloth for every DVD. You can clean dozens of CDs before you need to clean or replace the microfiber cloth.
You can buy Plexus at motorcycle shops. I don't know where else to find it. Hardware stores maybe?
For an example of what you need, here is a link to Plexus on Amazon. Good luck. I have had fantastic luck with this most of the time. I mean, if the CD is cracked, there is nothing you can do. But for surface damage, this fixes it 99% of the time.
Well, even 10 years later, Plexus still works to fix damaged Netflix DVDs, so there is that.
Then again, I am probably the only person who still takes CDs instead of streaming. But then, there are movies on CD that aren't avaible to be streamed, so...
All of Samsung's Blu-ray players which were connected to the net crashed about 2 weeks ago and are stuck in a start up loop so you can't update them. Samsung had gotten out of the Blu-ray player manufacturing business nobody noticed the continued support needed as they all their players and some other home entertainment products have become bricks.
I believe I have had one that was not the fault of a player and I have been with Netflix since about 2008 when I moved to UT and there were no Blockbuster stores within a few hundred miles.
Well, even 10 years later, Plexus still works to fix damaged Netflix DVDs, so there is that.
Then again, I am probably the only person who still takes CDs instead of streaming. But then, there are movies on CD that aren't avaible to be streamed, so...
Agree! We do the CD’s. We can get many movies that our friends with streaming can’t get. Of course, they get some new stuff we don’t have access to. However, for $8.55 a month, I am happy.
Have only had one disk in 3 years that we had to return. Another we fixed by wiping it lightly with alcohol on a cotton swab or ball. Worked fine after that.
I've been getting DVDs and Blu-rays continuously from Netflix since 1999, more than 2000 discs, and have had very, very few that were unplayable. And part of this time I lived in the Alaska bush, 400 miles from the road system, where they went through hell to get to me. About the only thing they weren't carried on were dog sleds.
Most of the ones that didn't play were cracked.
In the beginning, they tried different packaging, including padded envelopes, before they decided on the current red envelopes.
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A high percentage of mine stop, skip, jump, or just plain won't play. Some of them I've sent back because it's next to impossible to watch them at all, others we've just skipped ahead or whatever it takes to make them play. But we shouldn't have to do that. And, no, it's not because we have an old player, we just got a new Blu-Ray player a while ago.
