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Originally Posted by Reggie W
You guys that like the packaging, I'd be interested to know what you like about it. I think the art work on the collector's edition is sharp but overall I find nothing else to like. If you pick up a cold drink and then touch this slip cover or case you will likely leave marks from the moisture on your hand. I don't see how sliding the discs in and out is better than securing them in an amaray. I think this will end up scratching up the discs. Spill a little of something on this cover and it's finished. What's to like about that? I let family and friends borrow my discs and in a case like this the original package will soon be trashed.
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Fair question. I'm at work right now and don't have it in front of me, but of what I remember, I really liked the front cover. Very Criterion-like as someone pointed out here, and more arty than I've come to expect from studio releases. I liked the inner case, the one with the plain background with a slightly aged look and the title of the film printed on it, very distinctive, just seemed to have the right feel for the movie. I liked the picture on the inside showing Daniel and H.W. Plainview and Eli Sunday sitting at that dinner table, key scene in the film and just evoked the right memories of the film for me when I opened it. That's obviously not the most scientific description of the cover; it just felt right to me. (There are plenty of examples of packaging that just doesn't feel "right" for the film it's promoting...of semi-recent purchases, the "if you liked Armageddon, you should check this out" design of Fox's "Sunshine" stands out to me.)
I generally don't loan out my DVDs anymore, not because I've had a lot of issues with things being returned damaged, but because I've had issues with things not being returned. The people that I do loan stuff out to tend to be as careful with their discs as I am with mine, so that's not really a concern. I do have a few empty Amarays I keep around, generally to replace any broken ones, or if I'm loaning someone a single disc out of a set; if I was that worried about loaning someone this disc, I suppose I'd put it in one of those. But again, just knowing the people I loan my stuff to, it's not an issue. However, I am the oldest of three children and I definitely do understand what it's like having people wreck your stuff when there's not a darn thing you can do about it, so I get where you're coming from. It doesn't appear to be as durable as a standard Amaray, but for my needs, that's OK.
As for the scratching of the discs, I'm guessing I'll watch "There Will Be Blood" on DVD maybe two or three times this year, and I'm just not that worried about the disc getting scratched from being taken out of its case a handful of times. And let's not forget, there are some Amarays where the disc is stuck so tightly on that hub where it feels like you're going to snap the disc in half trying to take it out. I'm just sayin', there's not one perfect kind of case that's totally without flaws. This case to me is no worse than storing discs in a binder or spindle, and I have plenty of DVD-Rs/CD-Rs stored that way that have never been a problem.