Posted by Derek Janssen on 12/01/06 23:58

dgates wrote:

>>>At our house, we almost always have a few DVDs lying around on shelves
>>>-- both commercial DVDs and home-burned DVD+RW's. How seriously
>>>should we consider an emergency change in our DVD-handling policy?
>>
>>I don't get it. When the cases are possibly safer and certainly no
>>less safe, and putting them in the cases reduces clutter, why would
>>anyone ever *not* put them in the cases?
>
> Well, there's no good answer to that. It's like asking "Why not
> always wash dishes immediately after using them? Why ever leave them
> in the sink for a while?"

Answer: Because dishes are ceramic--ie., STONE--or hard plastic, and
don't have complex binary sequences micro-etched into them with laser,
containing expensive commentaries and featurettes.

And because if you put a DVD in the dishwasher, water spots would be the
*least* of your problems...

Derek Janssen (and that's even if you DO use Cascade, with fresh lemony
rinse!)
ejanss@cocmast.net

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