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Posted by mdct on 02/18/07 05:49
x-no-archive: yes On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 12:38:14 +1100, The man whose
head diminished <fsok@optushome.com.au.delete> wrote:
>On 17 Feb 2007 17:11:26 -0800, "anthony"
><anthonyjhcnospam@netscape.net> 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?
>
>In "the olden days", in Australia at least, record stores used to keep
>the sleeves on display and the discs behind the counter, which always
>annoyed me since the sales drone that did a ridiculously superfluous
>visual check of the vinyl before putting it in the sleeve for you,
>would invariably put their grimy mitts all over it. This carried
>through to the early CD days (and didn't I really LOVE watching the
>way they put the CD in the case with the patented "5-finger-push-down"
>technique...). In more recent days though, with the invention of the
>anti-theft price sticker, the only store I have noticed still storing
>the discs out of the case is Sanity. How the UK Virgin chain does it I
>don't know, but it could be a factor. Of course a big clue would be if
>it was still in shrink wrap or not...
>
>Also, from experience with mailing first vinyl and then CDs/DVDs from
>the UK to Australia, another thing to be wary of is the packaging it
>came in. I have found that the standard DVD case "grips" the disc far
>less than the CD jewel case "spider". As a result, the disc can spin
>around inside the case during transit, and cause a concentric scratch
>in the most extreme cases. Perhaps this is partly to blame? If you
>return the disc to the case and shake it, does the disc turn in the
>case?
I recently send a DVD from Aus to the UK, and I packed some tissues
inside the case on top of the disk, then closed the case and taped it
shut.
Voila! No chance of "death rattle", not any other movement of the
disk within the case.
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