Fuck 'em. They can rewind them themselves. That’s what they get paid for.
Of course that’ll never work; the hole in the center is way too small.
Stop bragging.
Miller, it’s worse than that. I have seen a double-sided DVD (you know, the ones you flip over to watch the other side) that had stickers on one side of the disk. :smack:
I don’t have a cat, although if I wasn’t allergic to them I’d get one of those squashed-face cats.
My friend is coming over tonight with a DVD player cleaning-disc thing.
I got Netflix right after the service started. Just about every disc they sent was too scratched to play all the way through. There was a box you could check to report a bad disc when you sent it back, and they were supposed to send you a replacement. I checked the box every single time. They never once sent me a replacement. I went out and bought a new top of the line Sony DVD player. That did not fix the problem. I canceled Netflix. I would like to try them again but now I have 2 kids and no time to watch movies anyway.
No, but when we rented our first DVD, I made sure to remind my wife to rewind it before she returned it. I REALLY should have let her puzzle over it for longer, but I also like the other benefits of marriage, so I didn’t.
Every now and then I think it’d be cool to put movies on flash drives, once flash drives are cheap enough.
Where the fuck do you live? Because I’d like to live there. In the five or six years that I’ve had a DVD-player I’ve had literally dozen of problems with scratched, skippy discs. In the 20+ years I’ve been renting VHS I can count the number of problems I’ve had with tapes on one or two hands.
I think it’s a player problem that Argent has. After two years of use, my DVD player would routinely freeze up on movies after about an hour. A good rule of thumb is if the movie freezes and skips on your DVD player, wash it with Windex and try again. If that doesn’t work, put it in your PC’s DVD drive. I’ve found that nearly 95% of DVDs that won’t play properly on my DVD player will play just fine on my computer.
I’d say it’s probably your player. I have Netflix, and my DVD player will sometimes have trouble with a disc. When this happens I pop the disc out and put it directly into my PS2. It always plays through on the PS2.
–FCOD
Am I the only one here who hasn’t had trouble with rental VHS or DVD? I remember exactly one VHS tape that was unwatchable (the movie was fifteen years old) and one DVD that kept hopping. 1-1.
This much, however, is true:
I’ve had Netflix for almost two years now. I’ve gotten one bad disc (broken) and they sent out a replacement before I even had a chance to send it back (obviously I notified them via the web form.) There have been maybe one or two out of hundreds of discs that I’ve had to spit on and wipe on my pants to clean a smudge off.
I second the comments on getting a nice $30 DVD player from Target or something. Should fix most problems.
Similar experience here - a few scratched and one broken in half out of a few hundred. They’ve done other things to piss me off, but I’ve never had a major problem with disc quality.
I’ve had one broken disk and two scratched from Netflix in two years. In all three cases, they immediately sent a replacement.