Why DVDs suck

[narzy]

there is also scratch protectors availible, I remeber them from 2 years back at CES, wish I could remember the company name, oh well I'll look for them and might stick them in the upcomming AnandTech Store.

 

[grant2]

WTF should I have tiptoe around a poorly designed product to make sure it doesn't break?? When I buy video tapes, I can throw them in a pile, stuff them in a box, toss them to a friend, & not freak out about it being damaged.

I can't believe people actually make EXCUSES for this obvious design flaw. You don't need to be "careless" to damage a DVD, you don't need KIDS... just the SLIGHTEST touch is enough to scrape off a portion of the reflective layer.

TECHNOLOGY should be designed around WHAT PEOPLE WANT TO DO.... not vice versa!!

 

[jeffrey]

The movie pause when watching a single-sided double layer disc change layers is a bigger annoyance to me than possible scratches. Oh well... at least I don't have to get up to change a side or disc!

 

[mpitts]

Originally posted by: jeffrey
The movie pause when watching a single-sided double layer disc change layers is a bigger annoyance to me than possible scratches. Oh well... at least I don't have to get up to change a side or disc!

You would have hated laserdiscs.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: jeffrey
The movie pause when watching a single-sided double layer disc change layers is a bigger annoyance to me than possible scratches. Oh well... at least I don't have to get up to change a side or disc!

Get a different player with a better layer change. On some players you can't even tell.

 

[magnux]

Originally posted by: coolVariable
DVDs also suck because of:
1. bad compression. Watch them on a very good TV and you will see what I mean (especially dark areas!!)
2. bad resolution.

Hrm. Watching them on "a very good TV" would provide useless unless you have "a very good DVD player", as well as "very good cables". I'm sorry, but I deal with high-end electronics for a living. We sell $30,000 DVD Players that will completely blow you away. Cheap equipment provides cheap results, period. There's also 3 ways to connect equipment -- RGB, component, S-Video and composite. Quality is in that order, as well. Most people simply connect their equipment with the provided composite video cable, which is terrible.. it's quite possibly the worst way to view a DVD. In any event, I'm not going to go into details and specifics (if you're truely interested, you can find information on the web), but realize that DVD is incredible quality when viewed correctly.

 

[KokomoGST]

On top of the stupid warnings and now "commericials" that you can't fast forward...
You have to use scene selection... whee, I guess we're too dumb to figure that one out! friggin studio dumbasses! And the stupid packaging drives me nuts as well. Some work fine... others I see people bending the DVD like PlayDoh to get it out :Q
Needless to say I don't lend DVDs to those people anymore...

Macrovision and my all-time... REGION ENCODING!! Who's the giant dork that came up that "idea." Combine the two for worlds of idiotic frustration that you can't watch DVDs on your computer because your software is locking you out for having a non-region DVDrom or can't tell if you have TV out enabled (Macrovision). Is there any reasonable purpose for MPAA and Regon encoding other than greed?

 

[jonmullen]

Originally posted by: coolVariable
DVDs also suck because of:
1. bad compression. Watch them on a very good TV and you will see what I mean (especially dark areas!!)
2. bad resolution.

and as an alternative you would offer what exactly.

 

[GoSharks]

Originally posted by: coolVariable
DVDs also suck because of:
1. bad compression. Watch them on a very good TV and you will see what I mean (especially dark areas!!)
2. bad resolution.

you are missing the bigger picture that they are limited to 9.7 gb/disc 😉

 

[UNCjigga]

Yeah, I just experienced this last night. Rented Abyss: Special Edition from NetFlix and the DVD arrived DOA. Pissed me off royally.