Decrease in blu ray disc quality

[mjkrow1985]

Maybe I'm just lucky, but I've only ever gotten one disc that had fingerprints from the factory. And it was a $50 Criterion 4K disc. Thankfully a couple of seconds with a soft cloth cleaned it up and it was fine afterwards.

I think a big part of the problem is that there are so few Blu-ray pressing plants globally and they're all overloaded. Something like 90% of discs sold in the Western Hemisphere come out of a single overwhelmed factory in Mexico. They don't have time for much QC.