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  Re: Best copy?
  By: Al Kaiser to Ken Nischan on Tue Jun 04 2024 09:27 am

 > I had a set of all moives and TV episodes on DVD that I purchased
 > when Borders was in business and the quality was good.  They were produced
 > by Warner Brothers.  They were widescreen, dolby digital DVDs and the
 > visual and audio quality was outstanding.   I had at the time a 32" High Def
 > screen and 7.1 sound system.  (Upgraded now to 55" 4K TV still with the
 > 7.1 sound system.  (Did not have the Wolfer because on the second floor of
 > a one famaily house I would have shakened walls apart).  The speakers did
 > a good job of reproducing all the lows.
 > 
 > I watched all the set when I purchased them and after a pause when I went
 > through one or more of my other series or movies, (I probably have 300 or
 > 400 DVDs and 4K movies), I picked the series up again.
 > 
 > I'm telling you this because after a few years I decided that I want to run
 > the whole B5 saga from start to finish.  (You actually start with "In The
 > Beginning" then "The Gatering" then run the series inserting the movies and
 > the final film just before "Sleeping In Light" which is the last what you
 > watch).  Anyway after picking the series up again I found that some of the
 > DVDs, (not all from the same year set), were totally BLANK, like they were
 > never recorded.  I do not know what caused this but the data has simply
 > disappeard like the DVDs were read/write that you could erase like a
 > DVD-ROM.
 > 
 > I wrote Warner Brothers about this and offered to send them the whole set
 > and after about two or three months of back and fourth about it the sent
 > me another brand new set of all the movies and series.   (Maybe I was not
 > the first to report this).   I ran the new set and found it "mostly perfect"
 > though there were one or two that were actually BLANK in the set.  Fortunall
 > they never asked for the first set back and I was able to swap out discs
 > from one set to the other to make a complete set.
 > 
 > I have not picked up the B5 series a a few years.  I'm wondering if I will
 > find the same issue again if I decied to do so.
 > 
 > 
 > Well your story just brought this to mind and I had to tell it.
 > 
 > 
 > Take care.

Wow, that is crazy!  I wouldn't be terribly surprised if it was home burned
discs, but having purchased sets go bad like that is weird.  Even more crazy
that the replacements had blank discs.  Glad you finally got it sorted though.
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