what are DVDs for, anyway?

[oiran]

I'm wondering if I'm doing this wrong. I've been getting some really disgusting disks from Netflix, and I'm starting to wonder if I'm doing something aberrant by simply watching DVDs and being really pretty passive about the whole DVD experience. Based on the condition of the things I get in the mail, I'm not nearly as interactive with the DVDs as some of you (general, in a world sense, not just an LJ sense) seem to be.

[Poll #288390]

I am trying to watch Angel S1 disks and I have to repeatedly smear them with this nerdy audio/video goo that Mr. Glove has around so that I can get them to play at all. I'd say that at least three-quarters of the disks we get from Netflix have serious problems with crusted splooge of one sort or another, as well as deep gouges that seem to have been gnawed into them. People, if you don't like the movie, please don't take it out on the disk.

Comments

[clari-clyde.livejournal.com]

You forgot an option in your poll: let them sit around and do nothing but collect dust.

That’s the worst that happens to my DVDs. Scratches I might understand. But man. You make me not want to subscribe to Netflix.

[velvetglove.livejournal.com]

Actually, I love Netflix. And I do recommend the service. I have spent so much more than the monthly Netflix charge on late fees for just a single movie that I can put up with the splooge. I just can't figure out what people are doing. The way my electronics are set up, there's just no likelihood that food or bodily fluids will get on discs unless I'm trying on purpose to make them gross.

If we were using the service for older movies, it might be different, but we're mostly catching up with Whedon series that we didn't watch the first time, i.e., Buffy, Firefly, and now Angel. All of these discs have been well-handled and now...sticky.