The life span of a DVD can be as short as one playing, if someone is hell
bent on handling it with peanut butter on his or her fingers. Patron
contribution to diminished shelf-life is one thing I'm afraid we can't
control very well; storage, environmental control, equipment and software
maintenance are...
Some machines are simply better at forgiving software abuse than others...
gary
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Gary Handman
Director
Media Resources Center
Moffitt Library
UC Berkeley
ghandman@library.berkeley.edu
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC
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The life span of a DVD can be as short as one playing, if someone is hell
bent on handling it with peanut butter on his or her fingers.
Patron contribution to diminished shelf-life is one thing I'm afraid we
can't control very well; storage, environmental control, equipment and
software maintenance are...
Some machines are simply better at forgiving software abuse than
others...
gary
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How about the life span of DVD's? We receive constant complaints from =
our patrons that our DVD's skip or won't play. Sometimes when we test =
them here at the library they play fine, other times DVD's that have =
only checked out twice will not play. =20
Advice?
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