[springjack]

I sent Arrow an email regarding the "purple" replacement they sent me.

Arrow´s feedback:

In order for us to ensure our factory did not mix faulty discs with the corrected copies we had these made away from the factory where the discs used are different and so have a purple sheen instead of silver, the disc has the same capacity and print as the faulty disc and the colour beneath is the only difference. I hope this won’t bother you too much but you can be sure the disc is of exactly the same quality.

My reply:

Yes, but the only difference being that DVD-R have less lifetime than a normal DVD.
I know what I´m talking about because I´m a technician on Sony Portugal.

C´mon, the factory print what is on thhe master. If the master is the corrected one there can be no error.
When Sony has a replacement program they replace the disks with the new factory master.
If what your are saying is true, then all the correct disks are printed at home.
Even the inner ring doesn´t have the factory code of a normal dvd.