Posted by Jaszmin on 10/18/05 09:37

Try renting a Godfather videotape now if you want
to envision what old DVDs will be like when they are
way past eight years after the creation. They will be
ruined. They have to keep re-releasing Animal House
every two years on DVD, using some pretext, just to
have playable copies in the store.

Mike Rice


On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 21:29:31 -0600, Black Locust <bl2112@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>In article <4318764f.470802937@news.netins.net>,
> lugnut@NOSPAMhotmail.com (lugnut) wrote:
>
>> That works most of the time - but I've rented I don't know how many
>> discs from one of the locally-owned independents that were mauled and
>> scratched beyond recognition, even "new releases" that were less than
>> a week old.
>
>Odd. I've seriously never experienced this problem. The only disc I can
>recall off the top of my head giving me notable playback errors was a
>copy of Candyman I rented, but the resulting errors lasted for all of
>20-30 seconds of the movie. And I suspect it was more so due to the disc
>being a "flipper" rather than scratches. This problem likely also varies
>depending on how many careless, disrespectful knuckleheads you have
>renting DVDs in your area. Here in Colorado most renters seem to be
>handle the discs properly.
>
>> -lugnut

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