Not in my experience. My library's DVDs and Blu-rays work great. I check one out every week or two.

I'd encourage anyone reading to go to your local library if you haven't been in a while. Check out a book. See if they have a makerspace. Do some remote work there. They're wonderful places. They become more and more important with every passing year.

The libraries near me have disc resurfacing machines. I've never had an issue playing a DVD or CD from the library.

Here you tell them that it was scratched/failed to play properly and it gets resurfaced or replaced (if still available from vendors).

In general library stuff is of relatively high quality and they have budgets for taking care of the collection.

Tell me you never borrowed movies from a library without telling me you never borrowed movies from a library.