Karl F
Stunt Coordinator
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I own a video store and I've had a number of Kino discs change color like this. They also stop working, either freezing in the middle or not loading at all. Kino says they've had no reports of anything wrong with their discs from anyone else.
The above disc is Galileo, from the American Film Theatre box set -- it's our second copy of this title to do this, and it definitely wasn't like this when we first got it. Other affected titles include the other titles from this set as well as The Adventures of Robin Hood and the two Krzysztof Kieslowski "A Short Film About..." discs. Not every Kino disc ends up like this, but I've got a stack of about a dozen that have.
I've seen a few discs from other companies change color and stop working as well, but the overwhelming proportion is Kino discs, which leads me to rule out environmental causes.
Important to note: the above disc has never rented out to anyone, so I think we can rule out customer abuse (e.g., from a particular Kino-loving customer or something) as a cause.
What's going on here? What exactly is this? Why is it happening almost exclusively to Kino discs? Any ideas, anyone?
Thanks in advance for your thoughts,
--K
(Click the link to see the disc in question.)
I own a video store and I've had a number of Kino discs change color like this. They also stop working, either freezing in the middle or not loading at all. Kino says they've had no reports of anything wrong with their discs from anyone else.
The above disc is Galileo, from the American Film Theatre box set -- it's our second copy of this title to do this, and it definitely wasn't like this when we first got it. Other affected titles include the other titles from this set as well as The Adventures of Robin Hood and the two Krzysztof Kieslowski "A Short Film About..." discs. Not every Kino disc ends up like this, but I've got a stack of about a dozen that have.
I've seen a few discs from other companies change color and stop working as well, but the overwhelming proportion is Kino discs, which leads me to rule out environmental causes.
Important to note: the above disc has never rented out to anyone, so I think we can rule out customer abuse (e.g., from a particular Kino-loving customer or something) as a cause.
What's going on here? What exactly is this? Why is it happening almost exclusively to Kino discs? Any ideas, anyone?
Thanks in advance for your thoughts,
--K