Re: Re: How to remove the wrapping from a DVD movie
 

No, dude. Do me a favor: Use a stopwatch and tell me how long it takes you to open a DVD, remove all the junk (including slug), all stickers, put it all in the trash, etc. If you were already doing it in less than a minute with whatever method you use, I'm impressed, that is if you removed everything and left no blemishes, bruises, sticker parts, etc.

Truthfully, I don't know why I posted. Not for profit or information. I was dumb enough to do it altruistically. I may not do anything as stupid again. It's certain to garner ridicule. There's a very few people who seem genuinly to be grateful, but few indeed. At least half of the responses have been facetious. I guess you just can't let your guard down online, people.

I don't know what you mean by slipcases. Can you point out a DVD in my collection that is in a slipcase (see link to my collection in my signature)?

Sticky residue can be removed with a tissue and a drop or two of naphtha (lighter fluid) or paint thinner.

Holy shit man, you actually go out of your way to go inside of another store to unwrap your dvd!?! And actually pay for it aswell?? :eek:

I've officially heard it all in this forum! :lol:

I just use my good ol fingernails. Who knew it could be so complicated to warrant a 3 page discussion!

I just imagine I'm having sex with it and voila, 20 seconds later I'm in and out.

So the Spider-man 2 dvd has a slip cover which isn't in the plastic wrapper. I'm obsessive about removing all the stickers and the one I bought from best buy had a ton of stickers. I always fear peeling a part of the cover off, but they usually come off easily. But today I noticed on the back there is a Made in Mexico sticker. I just had to remove it, and when I did, a part of the cover came off :(.

Oh yeah as far as removing the wrapper, I usually use a letter opener to punch through the part where you open the dvd from the side, then peel the rest from there.

Since when did this activity consume so much time that it needed to be streamlined into a less than a minute contest? And by the way lighterfluid and or goof off stuff will cause colors to bleed and run on paper like slipcovers etc. Slipcovers like on "Die another day" would be damaged.

Could it possibly, by any stretch of the imagination, be because the vast majority of us have no problems opening our cases? Perhaps you just know numbskulls with mangled cases, but I'm sure most of us here have somehow managed to find a way to safely extract our precious discs in a reasonable amount of time long before you showed up.

I really appreciate your help. I've learned a lot from this. It will save me lots of time.

Then couldn't you just not click on a thread entitled "How to remove the wrapping from a DVD movie" if you had no problems opening the cases, rather than coming in and thread crapping.

Muse .. you've started a frenzy. Unfortunate really ...

It took me about a hundred DVDs or so to finally take a go at the slitting the security stickers with a knife approach. Except for the crap tape they used on Rekka, since that point I have yet to have another ripped outter transparent plastic case because of the taping. I for one have no problem with the mentioning of this for we once noobs. Call it a public service.

Shit, I could care less about the time it takes to open a case, but I do care about the condition of the packaging when all is said and done.

Don't worry about these jokers. This board is full of some of the biggest jack-offs you'd ever meet in life -- fortunately you'll never run into them in the real world (except maybe at Best Buy on Tuesdays) because they're all too busy posting to forums on the Internet and re-posing their Kill Bill figurines on their DVD shelves.

I've posted stupid things and gotten fried for it, but I never let it get me down. I think it's great, and I usually look for these kind threads just to read and laugh at the hyenas...

Yeah, thanks for the props! It's not the time (who times things like this? I did, once I started a thread), it's the elimination of a frustrating experience, and it took me a lot of times before I figured out how to open the average DVD quickly, easily and painlessly. I know damn well that 99+% of the people who are new to opening them are in for frustration.

Thanks!!! -smile-

Off-hand, the people who are grateful are the people who you've helped. The people who think the idea of needing that help is patently ridiculous have made fun of it, but I don't see how you could be insulted by those posts; they're totally harmless jokes.

I will say that I meant no offense, sorry if you were hurt, and also I tried to help but I guess you didn't want anything better than an X-acto knife.

But, come on, the sheer number of times you've bragged about getting a DVD open in under a minute, *that* was the thing most certain to garner ridicule.

You mean they open?!?!
:jawdrop:

Try using a hair dryer to heat up the stickers before peeling them off. This has worked for those 'made in mexico' stickers. It also works for those stickers that come with the grey backing that are hard to remove.

I did that, after reading the initial post. I picked one with stickers on all three sides. It took 44 seconds, and I didn't mess it up at all (it would've taken longer if it had those somewhat melted on stickers--these ones came off easily).

I've gotten pretty good at getting them unwrapped over the course of 1000 DVDs.

There's nothing wrong with you posting how you do it though, since I'm sure some people will benefit from the info. As far as the teasing, it was just amusing the way you posted it (so enthusiastic),but there's nothing wrong with being amusing.

I just used my method (running the bottom on the edge of my coffee table until it frays).
19 seconds from completely sealed dvd with 2 security stickers and 1 ID sticker on top to an open dvd with all stickers removed. 19 SEC :banana:

Damn, I think I need my own thread... :cool:

I think this thread is a lot more useful than all the "Oh my God, Benji's Chainsaw Zombie Custard Fight (Titty Menu Edition) has a watermark!!!" threads.

Obviously this method is not revolutionary. But when the stickers come with pull tabs, one might be excused in thinking that pulling on those tabs would be the best way of removing the stickers. This thread points out that it is not and suggests a better way. Most people I know own fewer than 20 DVDs, if they own any. For those people, this information might be helpful.

Those people do not frequent a dvd forum, however.

damn, i thought i was golden at 20 seconds. i'll get more practice today. (do i need to insert a smiley?)

ouch.

kms

None of this stuff helps you if the shrink wrap is melted to the spine, which happens more often than not these days.

I agree for the most part, although when I started coming here I had fewer than 30 DVDs.