#375 – Snap
Posted on August 2, 2013 at 10:29 am by Chris
Chapter: Comic
Scratched digital media is super frustrating. If you were listening to vinyl that skipped you could at least physically move the needle to somewhere else on the record. You can’t reach inside your disc player and drag the laser to the undamaged part of the movie.
Tags: blu ray, does anyone still play CDs?, dvd
That frustration even goes back to not only old-school LaserDisc players, but also to the RCA VideoDisc players. (remember those?) My uncle had one and once we were watching “The Muppet Movie” and it started to skip at one scene, causing a nightmarish sound of Muppets laughing in a two second loop, until someone slapped the player.
I have some REALLY scratched CDs. The factory CD player in my 2009 Mitsu can handle them, but after my accident I was in a rental for a month. The factory CD player in a 2012 Ford cannot handle my scratched CDs.
That’s the difference between a hand-made dedicated CD player for 200 bucks and a mass product with DVD and BluRay disabled for 10.
I had a disc running in my xbox, and bumped it… As some of you may know, that is the fastest shortcut to a practically shredded disk. Now this is what makes modern technology so amazing: I took that disk to a movie/game rental store, with a machine for cleaning disks. I came back good as new, for about a tenth of the price of a new game.
I have a movie that my kids love, and the first 10 minutes were horribly damaged (courtesy of those same kids), and it drove me nuts to the point where I was driven to download the VOB files in a torrent and start from scratch (no pun intended…)
Still not sure if this was actually legal…