Mary Dexter
Arapahoe Library District
Cartford@jcl.lib.ks.us wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm wondering what experience other libraries are having with defective
> DVDs. We're having quite a few show up here that patrons report as
> unplayable. They have no visible physical damage, but either won't load or
> play for a while and then the picture breaks up. We're using 3M overlays
> for security. Possible causes we've come up with: manufacturing defects,
> disc/player incompatibility, playback interference from security strips on
> 3M overlays, instability caused by the 3M overlays. Comments on possible
> causes: If manufacturing defects were as widespread as our problem seems to
> indicate, we'd have heard about it by now (wouldn't we?); it doesn't seem at
> all likely that DVDs would play on some machines but not on others; 3M
> swears up and down that security strips shouldn't interfere with playback;
> the overlays are so lightweight it doesn't seem likely they'd cause an
> imbalance. So we're kinda stumped. Is anyone else having a similar
> experience, and if so do you have a surefire explanation for it?
>
> Thanks in advance for all replies,]
>
> Peter
>
> Peter Cartford
> AV Librarian
> Johnson County Library
> 9875 W. 87th St.
> Overland Park, KS 66212
> 913-495-2496
> cartford@jcl.lib.ks.us