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.

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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.

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[velvetglove.livejournal.com]

That could certainly have something to do with it. When we first started using Netflix, we didn't have any problems. I know they've added some distribution centers in the last few months, and our problems have certainly been concentrated in the last 3-4 months.

It's gotten to the point that we pretty much wash all DVDs when we get them, and then we use various audio/video nerd solutions on them when they pixelate/drop sound/stop for god knows what reason.

I do understand fingerprints, and I even understand that discs get scratched, but I don't understand the crusty coatings or the grease or the lumps. I can't help thinking that people get them gross on purpose, though the entertainment factor seems very, very low.