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Red Dog 07-01-04 12:17 PM


Originally posted by Ttiberius
I wouldn't want CD cases but for space saving purposes I wouldn't mind those thin little cases that Firefly came in at all ..I love those

If those are like the slim cases that the individual discs in the Homicide and Futurama box sets come in, I totally agree. That would be perfect IMO. :thumbsup:

fryinpan1 07-01-04 12:17 PM

The CDs that have bonus DVDs almost always come in the CD cases. However, I think the current DVD cases are fine.

RockyMtnBri 07-01-04 01:03 PM

Nein, negative, nicht, nada, nope.

Jim 07-01-04 01:13 PM

I like the size of the CD cases, but I'd rather have ThinPaks for DVDs.

ChrisHicks 07-01-04 01:26 PM

yeah, those Thinpaks would be great. that would some of my storage problems if all DVDs were in those cases. as it is now, my DVDs have a bigger room than I do. :)

emhello 07-01-04 01:39 PM

I'd be ok with it. In fact, I'd be ok having all my movies on one single disk which will hopefully be feasible in the next 20 years. I've already converted my 3,000 audio CDs to mp3 and burned them on DVDs. I've sold about 75% of them. The space I saved was enormous and it's also much easier to access the music now.

jough 07-01-04 03:27 PM

Would those CD cases have inserts? ;)

SideShow 07-01-04 03:31 PM

No way, but I'd love for them to be released in Thinpak cases more often (at least in box sets).

MEJHarrison 07-01-04 03:45 PM

Re: Would you be ok with DVD's coming in CD cases?
 

Originally posted by TOPDAWG
As I look at my shelf space...
As I look at my shelf space... holding my CDs, I see broken cases, cracked cases, cases with broken hubs, etc. It looks like crap.

As I look at my shelf space... holding my DVDs, everything looks spectacular. Nothing broken. Nothing cracked. It has a certain class to it.

I'm gonna have to go with NO on this one.

OldBoy 07-01-04 04:27 PM


Originally posted by icruise
I don't really think that's true, considering that in Japan DVDs came in CD cases for a long time (and I think some still do). And DVD-Rs come in CD cases as well.
Plus, CD's with special DVD bonus come in the jewel cases so I think the theory just fizzled out.

island007 07-01-04 04:46 PM

No, CD cases look inferior.

emhello 07-01-04 04:56 PM

What if you could hold ALL of your movies on ONE DISC - or 1 hard drive? So you had no need for shelf space whatsoever?

island007 07-01-04 05:01 PM


Originally posted by emhello
What if you could hold ALL of your movies on ONE DISC - or 1 hard drive?
No and no.

cultshock 07-01-04 05:19 PM

Keepcases are much better. I have some Japanese DVDs that came in CD jewel cases and I'm sorry, but I just don't like it. (thank god Japan finally switched to keepcases, except for a few stubborn companies)

jough 07-01-04 05:55 PM

I would like to eventually be able to store all of my movies on one drive, much as I have all of my music ripped to CDs on a single 250Gb drive (no, the mp3s don't yet completely fill the drive).

MEJHarrison 07-01-04 06:05 PM


Originally posted by emhello
What if you could hold ALL of your movies on ONE DISC - or 1 hard drive? So you had no need for shelf space whatsoever?
That's fine. But I'd want one big-ass box to stick next to the hard drive. Just so I get that sense of owning something. :D

mike45 07-01-04 06:46 PM

DVD ThinPak cases for me.

sracer 07-01-04 06:53 PM

Re: Re: Would you be ok with DVD's coming in CD cases?
 

Originally posted by MEJHarrison
As I look at my shelf space... holding my CDs, I see broken cases, cracked cases, cases with broken hubs, etc. It looks like crap.

As I look at my shelf space... holding my DVDs, everything looks spectacular. Nothing broken. Nothing cracked. It has a certain class to it.

I'm gonna have to go with NO on this one.

Ah, but the plastic used for CD jewel cases is extremely brittle but the clear plastic used for ThinPaks and videogame CDROMs while not as "crystal clear" certainly are far more durable.

Imagine what your collection would look like if it took up 60% less space.

gutwrencher 07-01-04 09:47 PM

they can wrap the damn thing in a paper bag, for all I care. wrap it up in newspaper...thats fine. as long as the disc is undamaged and presented right...and of course...protected. ok, so maybe dropping it in a bag isnt the best idea:lol:.

you get my point. I care about the film and the disc...not really what it comes in. what they are in now is just dandy and I have few complaints. not enough to whine about anyway.

lcnickell 07-01-04 11:49 PM

YES YES YES, CD CASES WOULD BE AWESOME

Honestly i could care less, but i don't see why anyone would be against it,

the only cd cased dvd i have is the First run of ROCK AND ROLL HIGHSCHOOL.

davidvp 07-02-04 12:01 AM


You can't do this. CD cases put too much pressure on the inner hub of the DVD. That's why we have the soft plastic inner hub of DVD cases.
WTF? This is completely silly. :lol:

A CD and a DVD are exactly the same, thickness-wise and diameter-of-hole-wise.

WHY would a jewel case's hub be any more "dangerous" for a DVD vs. an Audio-CD, whose hole is exactly the same size.

Plus, I disagree with your assessment re. the "softness" of a DVD case's hub. What's so "soft" about them? They're no "softer" than the plastic hub of a CD's jewel package.

seabs 07-02-04 12:55 AM

Too late to start now. Maybe hd-dvd will come in cd cases :rolleyes:

TheHistorian 07-02-04 12:59 AM

Absolutely yes!

But only if you can go back to 1997 and get them to do this consistently.

That's my $.02 (use toward time machine)

PopcornTreeCt 07-02-04 01:03 AM

At over 600 DVDs I say NO to cd cases and Thin-pak cases!!

kilcher 07-02-04 02:03 AM

I would much rather cd's come in dvd packaging.


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