Posted by Skipai Otter on 02/18/07 01:23

anthony wrote:
> 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?

I find fault with stores that have to open each and every DVD they get in
before placing them into really rubbish cardboard holders. Why????!

Can't they at least just leave the DVD's in their cases for crying out loud,
still sealed and all. I have seen a few disc's going missing as well as
inlay booklets etc from being taken out and stored elsewhere when sometimes
you can't find them.

Hate to say it but Asda used to do this and WH Smiths still does. Same goes
for Blockbuster but Blockbuster is a ripoff for dvd buying anyways.

--
Skipai

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