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>Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 10:46:05 -0500 (EST)
>From: Ed Dente <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Managgia!
>To: LLTI <[log in to unmask]>

Hi All,
Have any of you noticed this problem developing?
DVDs, when used by the general student population, get scratched and
beaten up in ways that low-tech VHS tapes never did. Therefore, they
eventually (and that's not too long an eventuation, I'm afraid) become
virtually (pun) unusable. Some of ours haven't even lasted the semester.
How standard is error correction in players cross the board? It seems to
vary a great deal among all our computer and DVD players.
At this rate I'm anticipating having to replace our more popular DVDs all
the time. Unfortunately, networking them from a central player/server
isn't feasible: not only technically/budgetarily, but also teachers are
allowed to take them home, students can check them out -- same as VHS tapes.
Do we just have particularly rough students (or overly sensitive DVD
players) here?
Wish we had a video server to put them all on, but until we
do...
Oh - I never tried those CD repair paste/kits. Are they helpful w/ DVDs?
Ed

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        -Gary Cooper, <<The Virginian>>

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Edmund N. Dente
Director, Language Media Center    Ph: 617-627-3036
Tufts University                   [log in to unmask]
Medford, MA 02155