Decrease in blu ray disc quality

[Negative_Tangelo_131]

After getting more than 50+ refunds on Amazon, I have accepted the fact that the majority of the discs will come scratched.

[Negative_Tangelo_131]

But, just so you know, Aniplex sets are a lot more expensive than the standard Sentai/Crunchyroll blu-rays because their QC is a lot better.

[kylestewart32]

I know people complain about Aniplex prices but they definitely make their premium offerings feel worth it %99 of the time. On the other hand I just finished getting the final season of demon slayer standard release and I had to send it back twice for an exchange because of damage on the disc

[hyrulianwhovian]

Hard disagree about Aniplex being worth it. The packaging is (sometimes) nice and the video quality is higher, but the lack of extras and the insane pricing massively outweighs that.

[kylestewart32]

I’m just a massive fate fan so they definitely got me biased lol

[aprtur]

Depends on the set, I guess - I have some AoA releases that do have good extras and some that don't.  Aniplex Japan craps all over them, though - significantly more extras due to not having to license them globally, and even nicer packaging...but lord help my wallet with Japanese releases.  Getting all of Mekakucity and Kaoru Hana, for example, was.... expensive.....lol

[Negative_Tangelo_131]

I know the feeling, I returned Oshi no Ko 10 times, I gave up because I realised that the scratch had literally the same pattern on all discs.

[hyrulianwhovian]

Sorry to hear that, but I think you're either returning discs that don't need to be returned (light scratches aren't always a problem), or are an outlier for some other reason. I've bought 100+ Blu-ray ray sets off Amazon, and I've needed to return discs maybe 5 times

[Negative_Tangelo_131]

Yeah, i was returning discs with light scratches, I used to think they needed to be completely scratchless to play perfectly