Posted by Je�us on 02/19/07 16:51

On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 17:11:26 -0800, anthony proclaimed:

> 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?

Sounds like it's been returned by a previous customer, and some brain-dead
staffer let it slip back through the system? Or maybe they used it in
store...

Either way I hope your friend gets compensated.

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