That's twice now

[mahavishnu]

Well both my Apocalypse Now and Chinatown dvd's arrived with the discs floating around inside the box.

Bring on the snappers, that's what I say! The Crash snapper is a good example, all shiny and nicely painted. Plus it holds the disc in properly.

[clortho]

Ack...Warner & New Line's snappers should all be put to rest in some landfill!

Clortho

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Yeah, death to the snapper. But the best case would be an Amaray keep-case with the Warner-style press-your-finger-on-it-to-release-it thing in the middle.

Wouldn't that be nice. . .

[clortho]

The Warner ones are nice, amd I also like the ones Columbia uses. The ones I don't like are the ones that Criterion and Anchor Bay seem to use. The ones where you have to apply thousands of pounds of pressure to get the disk to come off the spindle.

Clortho

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[mahavishnu]

With those Anchor By ones you have to sort of squeeze the middle spindle bit as you pull the disc off, so as to not damage it.

But I really don't see what's wrong with a good snapper case, like the Crash case. Sure, it wouldn't be good to spill coffee on it but then I don't plan on spilling coffee on any of my discs. Snappers are safer for shipping. Plus, the artwork looks nicer, you don't have to look at it through some sheet of plastic. Up the snapper!

The ones Dreamworks uses, like for SPR, is a DVD-Killer. I have to use two fingers so not to break the lovely, shiny ,little discs. Death over these cases that try to kill my puppies

[clortho]

Ironically, I've only purchased one dvd that was loose, and it was at a brick & mortar store.

The thing I have a problem with is when a studio puts out a double sided disk, and then puts in inserts that scratches up the disk! And its always the widescreen side thats faced with that gets the scratching...whats up with that?

Clortho

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[Dehrian]

I've never had an Amaray arrive loose. But I've had innumerable snappers that have arrived with floaters. Not only that, but the case itself will be broken.

I hate those f-ing snappers!

I've never had any problems with any DVD in a keepcase. However, some of my snappers (don't have many) were completely busted when they arrived by mail. Not to mention how b&m stores treats their discs with all those close-to-non-removable stickers.

Death to the snapper.


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Call me a minority unto myself, but I think the Alpha cases (currently favoured by Universal, Anchor Bay, Dreamworks & Criterion) are the best. There is no chance of the DVD falling out as with the Amaray cases (which I have no problem with - they're okay aswell).

As for the snapper, I am ambivalent. I don't really like them, especially with the likelihood of the cover getting damaged and of course thus being IRREPLACEABLE (!!!) unless one buys a new DVD. But such is life. Perhaps one day Warner & New Line will see sense? But you can apply my patented solution to the problem - high-res scan the boxes, reprint in high-res on photo print paper to fit a keepcase. It's a choice!

- C. Richard Semple

[1138]

Just to be a little neutral here, I've never had any looses discs in my DVD shipments, with cases of all kinds. I think that all cases have their weak points. I know the snapper is probably the most hated, but I don't mind it very much. And like mahavishnu said, it does look a little nicer on the artwork. And I never have any of my cases in a place where they could really be harmed, so the damage factor is very minimal. The one complaint I do have is the Alphas in that I have a real hard time getting them out, even though I know I'm supposed to push the two little thingies. It still gets me every time.

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[Bobby]

hi, okay I waited and nobody has mentioned it but because it is too simple (cause we all think to hard as adults).
Switch out the difficult cases with another.
i.e. Put SPR in a Columbia one and swith the least favorite disc or the least watched on the difficult one. Also the warner snappers are completely detachable from their cardboard, try it to just be familiar. Don't have extra cases, how about using the ones that carry the adult movies and store those discs somewhere else more discretly. ; )
that's my 1 cent!

[Bobby]

And oh, I don't need to mention that the covers are removable from the plastic sleeves right, good.

[jb523]

I never figured out that the Snapper covers were removable. That's good to know, although it's not too useful as the covers don't exactly fit into Amaray/Alpha type cases.

The main reason I dislike the snappers is that when you store your dvd's on a shelf, like books, the part that snaps open gets caught on other dvd's as you push a title back into its slot.

[Jon]

I've had to separate all my snappers from my Amarays, as snappers scratch and dent the plastic Amaray cases.

[Chromy]

On the plus side... the differing sizes of the case comes in handy. Forget buying expensive diffusers for your HT's walls. A simple bookshelf system filled with randomly stacked cases works just as well

[gotdvd?]

While I hate snapper crappers I will agree that they have proven to be the best at holding the disc in during shipping.

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I just needed to let you all know about the difficulties I have faced. I have only been buying dvd's for the past five months. I hated the cases with the cardboard covers the most. I had such a hard time opening them. Then when I started to read this board I realized that the ones with the cardboard covers were the ones that snap open. I didn't realize there was a snap. I had been trying to open BLADE by pulling the cover over to get around the snap. I had to laugh at myself for not having seen it before. It is so much easier to open the case now. Thanks all for saving me a whole lot of time.....

lol


Troy

Just got my first floater in the mail yesterday: it was Psycho (the remake) as a fulfillment of my Buy-4-Get-One-Free promotion.

Speaking of cases, is there anywhere that the different cases are pictured so I can tell which one's I'm talking about when I talk about cases?


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Then when I started to read this board I realized that the ones with the cardboard covers were the ones that snap open. I didn't realize there was a snap.

*LOL*
Not only is the snapper fragile and crappy, it's confusing as well.

Speaking of cases, is there anywhere that the different cases are pictured so I can tell which one's I'm talking about when I talk about cases

It's rather easy: the snapper is the case that has the cardboard cover (example: Contact, Bladerunner) and the keep case (Amaray and Alpha) is the plastic one (Psycho 98 has this cover for example).

Death to the snapper...

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[This message has been edited by Stefan Tegstrom (edited 12-07-1999).]

I've had two floaters (Amaray) and one crushed box (Snapper) arrive via the mail. I shipped them both back. What I did for awhile was buy audio CD cases to hold the discs. Having the actual box and the CD case side by side started to take up a lot of room as my collecton grew. Still, it's always easy getting your disc out of a CD case.

[This message has been edited by Norman (edited 12-08-1999).]

In my experience, Amaray keep-cases look nice, but they gather dust and finger-prints like crazy, plus they scratch easily and the sleeve can often go 'wonky' under the plastic. My X-Files DVD was really scratched, and my Scream 2 one was dented. AOD was almost flawless, although the Evil Dead SE had a wierd ripple effect in the plastic on the back of the case. This was also the only floater I've had, although it wasn't scratched - miraculously! My snappers have all been satisfactory so far, although I have discovered that they scratch as easily! Under the right light, you can pick up on the millions of micro-scratches which plague the snapper cases. My Exorcist one was ripped slightly, and the Matrix was scratched to SHIT. Others have been fine though (esp. New Line ones like Austin Powers and Lost in Space, which have a glossy cover that is more scratch proof). There, that's my rant over. In the UK, we have plastic sleeves for our VHS tapes, unlike the US cardboard ones. They are great, because they are matte. Why can't DVD ones by matte? You can't scratch or finger-print them! Oh well. It's only a box, right? And if the damage is getting done to the box, then your shiny disc is being protected, right? Not much consolation, is it? Didn't think so.
Si

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