Arik

Anyone who puts a tv show on DVD, but doesn't put a new chapter immediately after the opening credits needs to die slowly.

And, while I'm at it, whoever designed and/or implemented that stupd figure 8 case, where one disc sits behind the another one, can join them.

Fhew. I just needed to get that off my chest.

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Sam Cogley

TNG has a few episodes like that. DS9 is littered with them. Fortunately the DS9 theme is easier on the ears. And the TNG packaging is far, far worse than the "figure 8" case.

Arik

The TNG cases are bad, but I still think whoever designed the figure 8 case is lower on the totem pole.

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Deslok

heh, you'd think that with the outrageous prices Paramount charges for the DVD sets, that they'd invest a little of it toward adding the chapter thingy to the DVDs. I mean, it would cost what, 2 cents extra per DVD?

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Brikar

Piss-poor presentation quality on a high-profile DVD release irks the shit out of me. *coughSTARWARScough*

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Cymro

What's a figure 8 case?

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Deslok

It's two figure 4 cases taped together.

And yeah, this whole thing reeks of taking advantage of the consumer, because a day will come when the industry will announce that they've improved the packaging of DVDs, from the physical case to the menus on the DVDs themselves, and they're going to charge the consumer more for it.

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Sam Cogley

It's a case that puts two discs on the same side of one plastic base in an "8" pattern. You have to take the top disc out to get to the second one. Thankfully, I haven't seen one of those damn things in a long time.

Deslok

I remember when the technology was a little newer, the packaging followed no specific industry standards at all. CDs would come in really varied packaging sometimes.

My favorte is the doublewide style, where you can store up to four discs in the same package.

But most anything I have on a disc, whether its music or video, is in one of those cases that store at least 100 discs per case. I don't feel compelled to display my music in some kind of special rack or shelf. I keep the empty packaging in a box somewhere and the discs and whatever printed material from the face of the package in the sleeves. I like it because it's easier to put them away when I'm done with the disc and I can transport the whole collection wherever I want to take it to.

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Cymro

Oh, they did that a lot with PC games till they switched to DVD-ROMs, I hate those too. I also like the double wide ones, assuming the type you're refering to is like the Firefly one.

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