Re: OT: Ripping Tapes & LPs

>> On Mon, 2 Jan 2006 15:35:33 -0500, Rob Perkins wrote
(in article <41th3iF1fr2clU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

> Amy Guskin wrote:
>
>> I dunno - maybe it's a visceral thing. Having a tape that is _just_ your
>> album, that you can take out of the unit and label and store on a shelf,
>> just
>> seems qualitatively different, to me at least, than putting something in a
>> file on your hard drive. Old habits (and old musicians) die hard, I guess.
>
> No, I agree on a different basis. It's much harder to permanently lose a
> *thing* like a tape or album record, than it is to lose the redirection
> entires in a file system table, which point to the bits representing a
> song.
>
> I just really *really* wish that the industry had chosen sturdier over
> cheapest, and put *jackets* on DVD's, the way there are plastic covers
> on 3 1/2 inch floppy disks. The number of times I have to get out the
> DVD cleaner stuff for something rented from Blockbuster is getting tiring.
>
> Rob, who wonders why Blockbuster doesn't comp one of those electric DVD
> cleaners for their own use; they used to have rewinders, after all! <<

They don't check anything that comes back to the stores at all, apparently.
A few months ago I rented "Elektra" and never saw it. I got back to my
friend's house with the disk, put it in, and it froze and held at about
twelve minutes in. Nothing we did would make it move past that point, and
skipping past it ended up losing too much of a particularly important (or so
it seemed) scene. I examined the disk and it was like someone had thrown it
onto the blades of a blender! I couldn't _believe_ that they'd put that back
on the shelf if they'd noticed the condition.

When I took it back to the store and complained, the girl behind the counter
told me their policy is not to remove something like that from stock until
they get _three_ complaints. She made an exception when I showed her the
condition of the disk and satisfied her that I'd tried cleaning it and that I
didn't seem to be an idiot, but on a normal night with anyone else behind the
counter, they would have been perfectly willing to rent that non-working disk
out to _two more people_! Gah!

Amy

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