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13th Jan 2023, 8:17 AM
	Break-In Master Member since Dec 2013 250 Points	I just bought a still sealed boxed set of the `90's Outer Limits episodes for Xmas and, so far, I'm only just starting season 3. So far, a number of the 15 discs I've watched, have very minor scuffs or scratches on them, most likely from shipping. One was bouncing around loose in the case! Quite a few of those compromised discs have trouble playing! I find this to be quite strange because I've been told as far back as the early `90's that CD's and DVD's can get very scratched up and still play with no problems! In fact, I've got two of them here that I bought used that are QUITE scratched up but they play perfectly fine without any problems!! I've had others that I found on the street that look like someone used them to skate across the floor on and THEY play perfectly fine!! Anyway, if that's the case, why do these with only a tiny scratch or scuff give me so much shit when I'm trying to play them? Yesterday, I started watching the first disc in season 3. This disc has NO flaws on it at all!! But, when I got to the second episode om it, I couldn't even watch the last 12:00!! I gave up on trying to watch it on the laptop and tried to watch it up here on this computer. I thought MAYBE the laser on the laptop is starting to die! Well, I put it into the DVD drive up here, which has only been used for maybe a couple dozen hours and I STILL couldn't play it!! I decided to try to copy it to hard drive and THAT took over 25:00 because it was having trouble!! I FINALLY got it copied all the way, after, at one point, the computer said it was having trouble reading the disc and wanted to know if I wanted to continue! After MUCH screwing around, I FINALLY got to watch the last 12:00!! A few hours ago, I tried watching episode 3 on that disc. THAT started giving me shit about 15:00 in!! I got tired of it and switched to disc 2!! Anyway, I seem to be having the same problem with a number of other BRAND NEW DVD's!! WHY?? About 15 years ago, I bought the gold collection of Warner Brothers cartoons and have watched the entire set at least twice since then without issue. I pulled them out to watch them again about a year ago only to find that at least one of the discs in the set is ERASING ITSELF!! It'll play SOME of the cartoons on it but, after about half an hour or so, the disc is blank!! WHY?? I tried to copy it to hard drive but, it'd only let me go to the point where the disc stopped playing and said there's nothing else on the disc!! Last summer, I bought several packs of blank CD-RW's of which I used a number of to burn Woodstock, when I finally got it all edited together! Quite a few of them refused to let me burn stuff to them!!! From what I can tell, it was mostly the ones on the outer "edges" of those packs! There were 10 in a pack so, it was mostly the outer 2 or 3 on each end that were giving me shit. In some cases, if I erased them, first (yeah, I had to erase blank, never before used CD's!!), I could actually burn onto them but, there's still a stack of about a dozen that won't let me do anything with them! WHY?? My theory is that, as those were facing the outer edges of the box they were shipped in, it might've had something to do with some kind of scanner used at the Post Office!! Why ME??