Stop DVD Abuse
Since this seems to make me wonder at times I think I have to ask it out loud:
What do people do with DVD when they aren’t in the DVD Player?
As stated before I have a Netflix account and I occasionally have the pleasure of getting a nearly pristine DVD and have the amazing experience of watching a DVD without having to deal with the dreaded “Stuck Picture”, “Reset to the start of the movie”, or the “Skip randomly to some other scene” situation. All these have one thing in common and that would be dreaded “DVD Abuse”. Yes, for some reason DVDs, not being made of anything akin to diamond or even a form of bullet proof transparency, have this amazing talent to get completely scratched, marred, split, smudged, and other forms of mutilation. Since they aren’t sentient we all know that these simple forms of media are the victims of unwanted abuse and destruction.
How can something as easy as removing a DVD from an envelope, then placing it into the player, and after watching it removing it from the same player, and finally returning it to the same envelope be so bastardized? How can people so easily mar such a simple piece of media when all they need to do it put in into and take it out of the DVD player? Are we talking about people that are hard up for coasters? Are we possibly thinking that people have some psychological or behavioral dysfunction that they tape sandpaper to their fingers before handling DVD media? What is so difficult about handling a DVD with a little care and finesse where you don’t end up screwing it for anyone else that wishes to watch it after you?
I’m not expecting anyone to walk around with white gloves in a sterilize zone when dealing with their DVDs, but can these harbingers of DVD destruction take it out on their own media and not the media shared by millions of others. I just can’t seem to figure out what people put these DVDs through prior to me getting them in the mail at times. Perhaps people watch a good 85% of their movies while at the beach, or in a sandbox, or perhaps use them to avoid sticking to the floor mats in their car just prior to placing the DVD in their mobile media player. Either way it just seems like a very avoidable situation, that I know most likely will never change, but I just had to ask.
