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Posted by Cerial Killer aka Coco the Monkey on 02/18/07 13:31
Sounds like someone in customs thought it would be funny
"anthony" <anthonyjhcnospam@netscape.net> wrote in message
news:1171761086.798016.308440@a75g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
>A friend just loaned me a copy of the Guerilla two-disc edition of
> Istvan Szabo's 'Taking Sides' -- the dramatised doco about conductor
> Wilhelm Furtwangler on trial after the 2nd World War for alleged Nazi
> sympathies.
> This was sent to her here in Australia by a friend in the UK who
> purchased it as a present; supposedly brand-new from a Virgin retail
> outlet. My friend had not played it; mine was supposedly the first-
> ever play of the disc.
> I found the first disc covered with surface abrasions, and with even a
> circular scratch going right around the disc. The second disc was even
> more abraded, but without the ruinous circular scratch.
> The first disc halted mid-play, but I was able to copy the major VOBs
> from it and watch it that way....
> I'm curious -- is this a problem with Virgin stores? Do they store
> blank DVDs with sheets of sandpaper in-between them?
>
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