Irony
I was opening this DVD late one night, and as you might expect, I was very excited to see Owen Wilson in a war movie. Turned out to be an awesome movie.
The packaging, on the other hand, was un-awesome. I don’t open a lot of DVDs, since the movie fairy drops things in my computer from time to time. The amount of work I am forced to do, just to open something I purchased, is insane. The cellophane is shrunk-wrapped in such a way that there’s no handhold to get the tearing process started. Then, these serious stickers are on THREE sides of the case before it can be opened.
So, the irony is that the security device is “enclosed”. Is stealing DVD’s really such a giant problem? It’s hard to imagine that I could open all this packaging in less than 3 minutes and steal the disc out of it. Maybe the enclosed security device is an RFID that can get picked up at the front door.
But, just like the classic joke about the best contraception for trumpet players*, what this DVD packaging really does is make me less likely to buy something so unpleasant to own. Even once I get this disc in the player, I’ll have to wait for whatever junk at the beginning that’s flagged as “non-fast-forward-or-jump-to-menu-able”. When you compare this experience to my alternative, it’s just silly that someone would pay more for something of significantly less value.
* (their personalities)
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