Software to analyse a DVD on the Mac?

Not sure where else to put this.
What I'm looking for is a software tools that will analyse a commercial (or home made) DVD to tell me if there's anything wrong with it. eg; bad sectors.
I buy commercial DVDs for my collection and from time to time I get a bad one. I take it back and the replacement is also bad. Sometimes it's a battle to convince the store it's the disc at fault.
"Yes, I've tried it in 4 different players and it fails in all of them, and I don't care if no-one else has compalined". That sort of situtaion.
I'd just like to be able to show them a printout that says "the disk is at fault".
Anyone know of anything for the Mac? (OS10.3.9) I have had a good look around on a number of sites, but haven't found anything.
Thanks all.

I checked out DVDAFTEREDIT.com but it appears only to be for unencrypted DVDs, so not really useful for commercial DVDs that may be faulty, if I read it all properly.
And while I do know of certain software that will report back about problems with commercials DVDs, its done in the course of doing something else that won't be discussed here.
What would be nice is a piece of software that can analyse a commercial DVD or a home made DVD and report on any issues like bad sectors.

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