Posted by AZ Nomad on 07/23/06 22:34

On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 22:25:40 GMT, Phisherman <noone@nobody.com> wrote:


>About 1 in 20 DVDs I rent is messed up. So far those DVDs are
>childrens' DVD such as Cinderella, Shrek, Finding Nemo, Ants, Bugs and
>Shark Tale. I take the DVD back to the video store, they polish it
>but it still does not play properly. The store then credits my
>account, but I never got to see the rest of the movie. The store
>gives me another copy, and that copy looks like it had gone through
>the sandbox. I tried playing the (damaged) DVD on my computer and it
>freezes up. On my DVD player it stops and restarts from the
>beginning. I havn't tried Netflix for renting kids' DVDs yet--are
>these bad too???

Netflix isn't any better. About one in 20 are unplayable; About 1 in thirty
are in pieces. I now check for broken DVDs first every time I get them in
the mail.

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