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The only real manufactured DVD's I've had a problem with is a box set of Six Feet Under that I bought used, many of the discs in the set won't play, or play a bit then freeze up.
They look perfect but there's something wrong with them, got them used so I have no idea how they were treated prior. the place I got them from buys a lot of estate and storage stuff, they might have been stored for years in a hot So Cal storage unit.
Optical discs are more vulnerable from the label side than the read side, a scratch on the read side can usually be polished out, but on the label side a scratch can easily damage the data layer.
This is probably why stick on labels were such a problem for DVD-R. Most all my DVD-R's that had labels put on them 10-15 years ago won't read.
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