DeanR
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Well I guess that makes it not just an Amazon issue which is good/bad... (I can't decide.) I'm really curious what's going to turn up in my mail when it eventually arrives... (And I'll probably get stung customs charges as well, which is probably why it's taking so damn long.)DeanR said:I bought my set from Newbury Comics for $64.95. Five of the discs were pristine, two had minor finger print marks that I easily removed. Discs 2, 10 and one other disc had one minor scratch each. Not perfect, but overall I am happy. I can't wait to check these out. Is there any reason to keep the previously released DVD sets other than the DTS sound for the first season? Hell, I still have the Laserdisc sets 2-4.
I think most minor scratches are due to the trays that they put them in. The little 'lip' (where they pour the plastic into the mold) is right where the DVD is placed. So the lip rubs against the DVD when it's placed into the tray, when it's tossed around during shipping and more still when it gets put on a shelf. It's probably a miracle that they're not more screwed up.Christian Preischl said:...and really makes you wonder what the hell they're doing with these discs when they pack them.
Are you sure these are not being opened/handled/played by customs people? I've never bought a brand new box set in my life that had any fingerprints on the discs inside the box.Christian Preischl said:I've had scratches of varying degrees on every single multi disc TV-DVD set I've bought in the last few years, with the exception of one Gilmore Girls set that, ironically enough, wasn't for me. It's highly annoying and really makes you wonder what the hell they're doing with these discs when they pack them.
That there is no ending fits with the whole mystery of Twin Peaks and is oddly fitting but it's not like they intended to end the series that way though. They got cancelled.Bonedwarf said:Twin Peaks ending: I must be in a minority then, as is every other Twin Peaks fan I've known over the last 15 years, as we all thought the ending was fantastic.
Yes, that's my experience, too.Bonedwarf said:Customs: Speaking as someone who has, sadly, had a lot of experience with customs buggering around with my stuff, I can state categorically that while they've opened the shipping packaging before, I have never received ANY DVD's that had been unwrapped in any way by customs.
In the interest of fairness, however, let's be very clear that the murder was never intended to be solved so quickly but viewers vigorously, rabidly demanded it. So many shows are brought to ruin by their creative staff, but TWIN PEAKS is a rare case of a show that was brought to ruin by viewer interference.Dale MA said:this is why the Laura Palmer mystery should have been spread over the course of several seasons, instead it gets solved in the first quarter of season two
Cept i live in the US, and i had all 10 discs buggered. Its the hand collating, thats the problem. That, and the mold injecting ports from the plastic trays, its not cut close enough. Not unlike the problem many had with the He-Man set, when it first came out.Malcolm R said:Are you sure these are not being opened/handled/played by customs people? I've never bought a brand new box set in my life that had any fingerprints on the discs inside the box.
I love that idea... but it's much easier to say that since it didn't work out that way.Dale MA said:wanted to reveal the killer -
I bought Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, season 3, Vol 1 from Wal-mart and it had fingerprints on one disc and scratches.Malcolm R said:Are you sure these are not being opened/handled/played by customs people? I've never bought a brand new box set in my life that had any fingerprints on the discs inside the box.