Posted by anthony on 02/18/07 01:11

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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