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Posted by Archimedes' Lever on 08/01/07 03:59
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:42:04 -0700, elrous0@pop.uky.edu wrote:
>Paramount has ALWAYS been notorious for overpriced and underfeatured
>home video releases, going back to the Laserdisc/VHS days.
Not just Paramount. They ALL pull that bait and switch, cut corners
crap.
I can still remember the first LD titles distinctly having 2 or even 3
mil anti scratch liners in each title. Then, the bastards cut it back to
0.5 mil, and one could not even re0-insert the disc into the jacket
without "wiping" the slip cover aside. THEN they finally came up with
the idea of using a standard album slip cover with the 0.5 mil sleeve
glued inside it. I always hated that they used paper jackets.
I STILL hate today that DVDs come with paper caddy liners.
A simple potato chip bag is better quality.
Plastic films are cheap, and printing the cover art onto them would
cost them a mere penny or two more per unit than the current paper crap.
Then, the damned assemblers don't always get it in place all the way, so
the proof of purchase sticker, or the anti-theft sticker rips away the
edge of the liner when you open the disc. The dumb fuckers.
All they want is the money. The things used to have internal chapter
guides too, but they all just slowly let those die out as well, and
actually thought we were too dumb to notice.
Fact is, that the new HD formats should be goddamned gold plated
trophies! There should be plastic film cover liners, and an internal
placard as well. With EVERY title!
Just my two sense <sic> worth. :-] Where are those angry smileys when
you need them!?
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