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

[timian.livejournal.com]

I'm fantastically anal, and the fear of discs in less than absolutely perfect condition has prevented me from joining Netflix. Although, the idea of the service sounds fun.

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

This is so weird, because all of the dvds that I've gotten from netflix have been just fine. Different branch offices cover different areas with different people, maybe.

[nuptse.livejournal.com]

Boogers? Ew!! Suddenly those disposible discs out of the vending machines don't sound so bad.

Discs are quite fun to use in the microwave as well. They get all crackly 'n stuff.

But um... sounds like it's no different than the tape exchange at the local porno shop. Handle with hazmet gloves and all that.

Once a few years ago I bought a pack of ghey magazines at the local porn shop and they had *fingerprints* all over them. *shudder* I wonder - under what circumstance do you take magazines back to the shop?

[paddyg.livejournal.com]

Wow, what bad luck. I've had only one really bad DVD from Netflix; I don't get the new releases, so maybe that's why. But boogers? Splooge? Teethmarks? What are people thinking?? As a last resort, you could try washing them gently with mild dish detergent and drying them carefully.

[rhyo.livejournal.com]

So far, I've used Netflix to get some obscure stuff:
Fellini movies (much better when I was young and watching them at the art theater in a consciousness-altered state), Ingmar Berman (Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries, ditto), A Soldier of Orange, Woman in the Dunes, Lawrence of Arabia, Dr. Zhivago, An American in Paris, Brigadoon and a bunch of others I can't remember. Those discs were all in good shape.

The season 2 Oz discs, however, were not. What surprises me, though, given those flimsy envelopes, is that they survive shipping AT ALL.

[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.

[swanswan.livejournal.com]

*snorfles*

My french dvd netflix equivalent keeps sending me dvds that are in bloody french!!!!! (it's equally annoying, but in a slightly less humans-are-morons! way)

And i take it you handed in the redux piece? I'm laaaaaaaaaaaaate. DOOM.