Defective BR disc in Superunknown boxset.

[SOUNDselections]

I finally had a chance to unwrap and listen to my Soundgarden Superunknown boxset. But imagine my horror when the blu-ray was unrecognizable to 3 different players. I have a friend with the same set. His disc plays on my equipment. But mine won't play on any of his either. I live in the US and ordered this over a year ago from Amazon UK. Now the set is out of print. I couldn't find any mention in here of others with the same issue. Thank you in advance for any good advice to remedy this issue.

 

[SomethingAnything]

I finally had a chance to unwrap and listen to my Soundgarden Superunknown boxset. But imagine my horror when the blu-ray was unrecognizable to 3 different players. I have a friend with the same set. His disc plays on my equipment. But mine won't play on any of his either. I live in the US and ordered this over a year ago from Amazon UK. Now the set is out of print. I couldn't find any mention in here of others with the same issue. Thank you in advance for any good advice to remedy this issue.

Every collector's nightmare. I feel for you. I'd have a go at trying to go directly to the Artist's distributor or record company, or even the manager (I'm thinking, for example, of someone like Marillion's Lucy Marillion), and plainly stating your case. You just never know your luck. I did something similar years ago when I had a dodgy Flaming Lips DVDA (Yoshimi album), and the bloke (manager, I think) sent me a replacement. He said he had it on his desk.

You could even say how you've asked for advice from fellow forum buddies on the QQ forum, hint, hint, which may help them realise you're connected and that you might let everyone know how great they were in coming to the rescue. If you can't find a name via the box set, there may be one on the bluray if they have credits. Your mate could check for you.

Failing that, the only other option I can think of, which I'm sure you have to, is to plead your case to Am UK, but they may not listen after all this time.

Huge good luck to you.

 

[Horbus]

I finally had a chance to unwrap and listen to my Soundgarden Superunknown boxset. But imagine my horror when the blu-ray was unrecognizable to 3 different players. I have a friend with the same set. His disc plays on my equipment. But mine won't play on any of his either. I live in the US and ordered this over a year ago from Amazon UK. Now the set is out of print. I couldn't find any mention in here of others with the same issue. Thank you in advance for any good advice to remedy this issue.

Could it be that your BR has a different regional code because it's from the UK? BR-Sets bought in the US should have BR's with a diiferent regional code. May be you can try a "code free" Blu-ray player if you have one available from someone else to check?

 

[SOUNDselections]

Could it be that your BR has a different regional code because it's from the UK? BR-Sets bought in the US should have BR's with a diiferent regional code. May be you can try a "code free" Blu-ray player if you have one available from someone else to check?

Thanks for the solid thought, Horbus. But alas, my friend w/ the other equipment has a region-free Oppo and it didn't recognize it on that either.

 

[DuncanS]

Could be a case of Blu-ray disc rot?