I was just wondering if anyone else had trouble with Funimation DVD sets. Just a few days ago I bought the new release of Trigun from Best Buy (retail release, still in the shrink-wrap) and disc 3 out of 4 had severe problems. In a regular DVD player, one of the episodes skipped over a large portion after there were some macro-blocking artifacts and sound errors. Looking at the DVD, it was scratched deeply. This was the first time I had taken it out of the case.
This isn't the first time I've had trouble with their discs though. A few months ago KiTo bought both sets of FMA, and more than one of the discs had unrecoverable playback errors similar to what I got with the Trigun discs. These also had deep scratches as well as a large area of dark discoloration on the data side of the disc. Actually, the discoloration was on more than one of the discs, but most played correctly. She had to return the set and exchange for a new one.
I haven't finished watching my Slayers set (first three series), but I just now looked at the discs and there are a few with the same physical problems. I haven't checked playback yet, but I would bet that they have the same issues. Unfortunately, I bought these quite a while ago and I doubt I would be able to exchange them now.
Has anyone else had similar problems recently with Funimation discs?
This is an enormous QA problem. We've purchased 4 different animes in 5 sets from them in the last few months and over half of them have significant issues.

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