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On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 05:29:23 +0800, Aaron J. Bossig
<> wrote:

> In ordering hundreds of DVDs from DeepDiscount, I have gotten exactly
> one defective disc. After purchasing more than 1,000 DVDs from various
> retailers, DeepDiscountDVD included, I have still had only one defective
> disc. I think that one disc was a matter of bad luck, and I wouldn't
> put blame onto the retailer for that.
>
>
I got curious with all the praise and went there to check out prices.
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I've been buying from them for at least three years (probably close to 100
titles and many boxed sets), and never had a problem.

Dude, it is 'DEEP DISCOUNT DVD'.

The first two words tells you everything you need to know.

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 05:34:03 -0800, JoeBloe
<> wrote:

>On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 22:35:07 -0500, Jaime M. de Castellvi
><> Gave us:
>
>>On another note, what are everybody's favorite DVD cleaning products?
>
>
> First rule of optical discs:
>
> The easiest way to keep a disc clean is to *never* touch the optical
>surface to begin with! It is just like a camera lens except that it
>can be scratched by a single particle of dust. "Cleaning" a disc is a
>detrimental process.
>
> There are only two places for a disc. The disc tray of a
>player/reader, and the case it came in.


This is an interesting notion, which leads me to ask a couple of
questions:


1. Surely, if you've rented a disc from Netflix, and it arrives with
an obvious smudge of something on the bottom, you're going to clean
the thing, right?

Specifically, if you don't have any special DVD-cleaning products,
you're going to squirt Windex onto a paper towel and use that to wipe
outwards on the bottom of the DVD... right?


2. How bad is it to place a bare DVD on a wooden shelf, or on another
DVD? The way the 25-packs of blank DVDs come shipped in a big stack,
it doesn't seem like it would be that big a deal.

At our house, we almost always have a few DVDs lying around on shelves
-- both commercial DVDs and home-burned DVD+RW's. How seriously
should we consider an emergency change in our DVD-handling policy?


Thanks for any thoughts.

dgates wrote:

>> There are only two places for a disc. The disc tray of a
>>player/reader, and the case it came in.
>
> This is an interesting notion, which leads me to ask a couple of
> questions:
>
> 1. Surely, if you've rented a disc from Netflix, and it arrives with
> an obvious smudge of something on the bottom, you're going to clean
> the thing, right?
>
> Specifically, if you don't have any special DVD-cleaning products,
> you're going to squirt Windex onto a paper towel and use that to wipe
> outwards on the bottom of the DVD... right?

Since most paper towls are ribbed...wrong. You use the flat surface of
tissue paper (presumably one that doesn't have aloe lotion or other gunk
in it).

> At our house, we almost always have a few DVDs lying around on shelves
> -- both commercial DVDs and home-burned DVD+RW's. How seriously
> should we consider an emergency change in our DVD-handling policy?

You can buy a pack of fifty woven plastic DVD-Rom envelopes--some with
ring-binder holes--at Staples for $12.

Derek Janssen

In ordering hundreds of DVDs from DeepDiscount, I have gotten exactly
one defective disc. After purchasing more than 1,000 DVDs from various
retailers, DeepDiscountDVD included, I have still had only one defective
disc. I think that one disc was a matter of bad luck, and I wouldn't
put blame onto the retailer for that.



--

Aaron J. Bossig

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http://www.dvdverdict.com

Several eyewitnesses place Jaime M. de Castellvi at the scene:
> Maybe it has to do with the fact that I always purchase box sets and
> one single bad disk will usually render the entire box set bad, but
> does anybody else find what seems an unusual proportion of defective
> disks in their purchases from them? Whenever I run into a problem I
> immediately wipe the disk outwards from the center with special DVD
> cleaning tissues to ensure that the disk really has a problem and it
> is not a mere dust issue, but even so...

I've only shopped with them once, and got one bad disc out of seven
5-disk seasons.

Of course the bad disc was in the last season, so it was well beyond the
return date when I found it. The manufacturer (MGM) was no help; their
online form for reporting defects was broken, and all e-mail to them
bounced. I finally had to contact their parent company (Sony), which
graciously replaced the disc for their wayward and irresponsible child
(and hopefully sent them to bed with no dessert).

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average, and that number grows every day."
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As it isn't really practical to reply to each and every one of y'all
kind souls who have pitched in essentially reinforcing one another's
experience, I thought I'd reply to one and I chose JoeBloe because he
went to the effort of posting thrice, but please let it be understood
that I am thankful to y'all for posting.


On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 05:27:32 -0800, JoeBloe
<> wrote:

>On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 22:35:07 -0500, Jaime M. de Castellvi
><> Gave us:
>
>> Got started on a second one... bang!
>>Another screen-freezing defective disk.
>
> Do you restart the disk to see if the "freeze" occurs in the same
>place each time?

Yup, several times, to be absolutely sure. I even turn the player off
to reset it, and take the disk out and put it back in.

>>Maybe it has to do with the fact that I always purchase box sets and
>>one single bad disk will usually render the entire box set bad, but
>>does anybody else find what seems an unusual proportion of defective
>>disks in their purchases from them?
>
> What brand and model of player do you use? Also give its age and
>the region you are in as environmental conditions are also a factor.
>
> I suspect your player more than the discs as getting a functioning
>disc on a subsequent set does not mean that the other disc was bad if
>your player is in marginal calibration.

It's a Toshiba dual DVD/VCR player I picked up when I was finally able
to save enough for a DVD player, three and a half years ago. Doesn't
seem like it's that old so it is a bit disturbing to think it could be
the player. Nonetheless, based upon the joint accumulated experience
of just about everyone who has posted here (except for a trolling
young man) setting the record straight, and upon the fact that I am
clearly the extreme statistical oddity, I have no choice but to
conclude that the player is the thing.

Short-term fix (hopefully)? I just got myself one of those head/lens
cleaning disk, we'll see if it does any good. Long term solution will
obviously be to replace my machine as soon as I can save enough to
splurge for one (yeah, I know that I can get plain DVD players real
cheap now, but if I'm going to go to the trouble of replacing my
machine, I figure I might as well finally go for one of those dual
VCR/DVD player-writer, now that they're coming down in price). After
that, I'll continue to buy from DeepDiscountDVD, only with
considerably greater peace of mind. And I'll be very glad to save
their excellent customer service department the undeserved trouble
that I must have apparently been causing them.

Now, I notice from your other post that you advocate not using *any*
DVD cleaning products whatsoeve, and I don't see anybody disagreeing
with you so farr. What about DVDs that are already scratched? Do you
find that those DVD repair thingies any good or are they also a total
waste of money?

Cheers,

Jaime

On 29 Nov 2006 11:08:34 -0800, "Lots42" <> Gave us:

>
>Dude, it is 'DEEP DISCOUNT DVD'.
>
>The first two words tells you everything you need to know.


Dude, you're a retarded idiot if you think their sources are any
different than anyone else's.

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:17:01 -0800, dgates <>
Gave us:

>1. Surely, if you've rented a disc from Netflix, and it arrives with
>an obvious smudge of something on the bottom, you're going to clean
>the thing, right?


Perhaps, though as I PURCHASE DVDs as opposed to renting I do not
encounter such crap.

Also, if I wait for whatever time for a flic to show up from net
flix, then I can surely wait the few days it would take to get it
replaced. Still no touching. You put the disc in after a cursory
exam for liquids, pastes, or creams, and then you play the thing. IF
it fails to play, THEN you investigate a cause.