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Originally Posted by iceman
Does anyone else suffer the same frustrations as I do when watching rented DVD's these days?
They're always scratched and dirty and they just lock up and freeze up while watching them, sometimes for minutes at a time and then when it eventually comes back, you've missed several minutes of the show.
I struggled through 2 hours of "Enemy at the Gates" last night, as it froze up about a dozen times. it was the most frustrating 2 hours i've spent in a long time.
With VHS tapes, if the tape was a bit mangled, the VCR would just keep going past it and you'd get a fuzzy picture for a bit. With DVD's and digital technology though, it just locks up and it can't get past it.
If you go back to the video store and complain, they usually give you a free credit and they put the DVD through one of their cleaning machines, but that's only going to get fingerprints off - it's not gonna fix scratches.
I just can't see how it's going to get better, either. More and more DVD's are doing it these days, as they're getting older and more broken. I don't know what plans the DVD rental shops have going forward to address this issue.
Can the DVD players themselves have their technology improved to be able to better handle a bad quality disc, instead of just freezing up?
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not really mike the only way is to educate people to take more care
with someone else's stuff most just dont care its not theirs ect ect you know the story
other way is to check the dvd before and after, damaged after charge them for a new one ?
price of dvd's these days are they that expensive ?
regards john