ABSOFU#*INGLUTELY!!!

security tags, sticky plastic on the spine, and price tags on slip covers - booooo!!!

Removing the stickers an spending another half hour trying to remove the resigoo left behind. I used to use goo gone and other types of chemicals but they started stinking up my collection. Now when a sticker leaves the gooey residue I reapply it over and over until it pulls the rest of the gunk off. Sometimes this can be a tedious process but beats the hell out of the smell.

damn right i hate when they have the french packaging rite on the case. put a slip cover over it with french and leave the dvd case itself alone, we don't need all that crap.

i also hate overlapping discs like on the alf dvds and on the scrubs & golden girls dvds where the first 2 discs overlap each other.

& this is a little off of the topic but her in canada or winnipeg at least i have yet to have a fox home entertainment double sided disc not scratched when its brand new. they are fully intact but reba, nypd: blue and the pretender every season of the shows were scratched right when i opened them, they work its just that it shouldn't be scratched when its brand new!

Broken center hubs or ones that wont let go of the disc without using a crowbar....

If you want an easy way to remove the stickers, buy a heat gun. I work at a video store and thats what i use when the stickers wont come off.

Yes.

I also agree that slimcases for all films is a ridiculous idea that would make it near impossible to read the titles on the spines, but it is a great idea for TV-on-DVD sets, and I'm glad to see more manufacturers using it.

1. Shrinkwrap melded onto the plastic on the spine.
2. Covers that overlap the plastic sleeve and get stuck to the security tape.
3. Keepcases with the sleeves all wrinkled to hell from heat gun over-exposure.
4. Poorly cut or misaligned covers where the title isn't centered properly on the spine.
5. Cases with "overcut" sleeves leaving a lot of the cover on top or bottom exposed.
6. Security latches on the sides of keepcases.
7. Snappers.
8. Over-lapping disc hubs.
9. Fat double Alphas for 2-Disc sets - why do they still use these?
10. Security tabs on digipaks - either under the tray or right on the paper surface poised to cause a tear.
11. Digipaks. Plastic trays that can't be replaced, folding cardboard that's guaranteed to wear and tear with each repeated use - they're designed to fall apart. Give me a multi-disc keepcase like the Nexpak VERSApaks or a bunch of thinpaks inside a nice, sturdy hard plastic box.

chalk me up as someone who would like to see all dvds in slim cases

That'd be hell trying to find something.

While I agree with just about everyone here, except for the one about putting your DVDs in binders, I cannot believe that the overlapping disc tray is not the number one issue. I honestly can't stand this style of case. Not only do you have to find something to do with the other disc but it seems like the disc on top would get scratched by the artwork of the other, of course that could just be me being extremely paranoid. Although I don't like snappers; I would rather have a snapper over a damn overlapping disc tray any day. I would rather have an alpha, anything other than one of these overlapping bastards. I fortunately only have 2 DVDs with this style of packaging, Henry: Portrait...anniversary edition and the Sin City extended cut. I had an extra double disc case to put Henry in and I have both discs of the Sin City set in slimline jewel cases next to the set on the shelf.

I would love to have Scrubs but I refuse to buy them for the simple fact of the overlapping disc trays.

Loose discs are of course a huge issue but that can be taken care of easily by simply not buying one with a floater or taking it back for another copy. The overlapping disc tray cannot just be exchanged for a different style case.

nah, not when everything is alphabetical. What are you saving...20 seconds...i'll take double the shelf space over a few lost seconds of moving my finger down the row.

Add another vote for the plastic being stuck on the spine. I'm never able to get all of it off. As for the packaging itself, I hate it when companies try stuffing a large amount of discs into a regular amaray case (i.e. 7th Heaven: Season 3). I also think the case they used for King Kong EE looked and felt very cheap.

I also agree with wrapping the slipcover inside the shrink wrap...they get damaged very easily on the shelves.

I would take it a step further:

Sell the damn french packaged cases in Quebec only!

Fuckers want to separate, so why should the rest of Canada have to suffer with bilingual packaging for EVERYTHING? DVDs are just the latest.

Yeah, I guess I'm going too far, but I can't be the only one who thinks that way. If I am, so be it.

Well, you might have a point, but I'll take a bit of eye strain over cases that are mostly air inside. Of course I'm sure I must be in the minority.

And some studios can't seem to get that right.

I cannot stand any digipaks and I particularly despise the fact that they are not replaceable.

Loose discs, without a doubt bothers me the most, especially when you buy online. The sound of a loose disc rattling around when you get the mail sucks.

I've had a bad streak with floaters recently, DDD (of course), Best Buy and my recent purchase from Walmart.com.

Same problem in South Africa; in the past six months or so, most TV seasons and movie boxsets have been released in those oversized plastic cases. Previously they were packaged the same way as the UK releases. Plus, it tends to be inconsistent, for example, Angel season 1-4 was released here in digipacks, and then season 5 turned up in one of those plastic cases.

When there is no name on the Spine.

Speaking of which, it annoys me when artwork gets changed from the original logo text to some generic font (the new Batman SEs, etc.) -- the one that sticks out for me is "Independence Day", because they went from the official font (thick black lettering) to a generic one in gold that was almost unreadable against the silver background.

I don't like the cardboard cases.
I DO like the slipsleeve packaging. I think it looks more professional. I'm a treehugger, but I can't help it. I like the slipsleeve!

Another one: When they change around the packaging from one season to the next so they don't match and/or feature completely different types of cases. Separate seasons should all match or at least feature a matching style. Same for movie franchises (especially when it's all under the banner of the same parent studio). The Star Trek 2-disc SE's are a perfect example. Why the Hell is the first one yellow and all the rest silver? Would it have killed them to make them all silver?

What's the difference between cardboard cases and slipsleeve packaging?

The cardboard cases I'm talking about are the ones like - Spies Like Us, A Time to Kill, The Matrix, Bloodwork, Mystic River, etc. The slipsleeves are the ones that slide over the regular style cases like - Assault on Precinct 13, Devil Wears Prada, The Forgotten, Sideways, etc.