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I Hate How Region 1 DvDs are Packged
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorTomGaines
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I hate the R1 packaging also. The UK packaging is much better. There I usually cut open the plastic on the right side where the snatch is and then strip off the plastic.
But I like the German packaging the best. There we usually have a butt strap (or whatever is called. The translator says you call it "butt strap" in English) which easily strips of the plastic.


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DVD packaging only makes sense from a point of view of paranoid retailers. They hated CD packaging because it could easily fit into thieves' pockets, so they developed that stupid cardboard sleeve to put in the jewel case. We hated jewel boxes because they broke easily, and the album cover art was 1/4th the size of LP art. So the DVD package was delberately designed to be larger than a shirt pocket, even though the disc was identical in size. Shaped somewhat like a theatrical one-sheet poster... whomever approved the design never had to store a few thousand of them in a middle class home.

But the various electronic/magnetic anti-theft devices added to the extra tape to tell you of the anti-theft devices made opening/owning them horrible. The biggest problem I have with the upper label tape is when it gets old, it does not peel well. I like how (similar to the same stip on CDs) it makes it easy to read the title in retail bins.

I think the "peel here" and arrow label is as silly as the warning labels on car windshield covers which instruct us to remove before driving.
If it wasn't for bad taste, I wouldn't have no taste at all.

Cliff
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Quoting 8ballMax:

I've tripped the alarm exiting my local Target Store on many occasions and have never, ever been stopped or approached by the store security personnel. It's all a big joke and waste of money and resources if you ask me.


Not in the UK.  No city wide shoot outs here.  If someone gets caught here they'd go, "it's a fair cop gov'nr, thrown on the bracelets, I know I've been nicked bang to rights."
Do you ever find yourself striving for perfection with an almost worthless attempt at it?  Guttermouth "Lemon Water".  Also, I include in my Profiler database VHS tapes, audio DVDs, audio books (digital, cassette and CD), video games (digital, DVD and CD) and 'enhanced' CDs with video tracks on them, as well as films and TV I've bought digitally.  So I'm an anarchist, deal with it.  Just be thankful I don't include most of my records and CDs etc in it too; don't think I haven't been tempted...
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