http://blog.edseek.com/archives/2005/08/12/scratched-blockbuster-dvd-rentals/ "There are certain areas in the game where death is permanent and you cannot respawn." -NWN Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:11:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://blog.edseek.com/archives/2005/08/12/scratched-blockbuster-dvd-rentals/#comment-35464 n e thing Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:37:07 +0000 http://edseek.com/?p=242#comment-35464 I get so many of them I'm starting to think they scratch them deliberately to stop people ripping them .. which is a pity since my PC is the only DVD player in the house. I can't see why stand-alone player hardware should be any different than PC hardware, in fact the PC version should be better able to read the discs, if it's not playing it back in realtime ... so I guess I must extend my conspiracy theory to include mplayer authors, who obviously deliberately don't try hard to recover from 'too many packets in buffer' (heard of padding, guys?) and probably just use the consequential 'crash' to read all your porn thumbnails and email the list to some secret agency or other. I get so many of them I’m starting to think they scratch them deliberately to stop people ripping them .. which is a pity since my PC is the only DVD player in the house. I can’t see why stand-alone player hardware should be any different than PC hardware, in fact the PC version should be better able to read the discs, if it’s not playing it back in realtime … so I guess I must extend my conspiracy theory to include mplayer authors, who obviously deliberately don’t try hard to recover from ‘too many packets in buffer’ (heard of padding, guys?) and probably just use the consequential ‘crash’ to read all your porn thumbnails and email the list to some secret agency or other.

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