I discovered that little people – that is 2 year olds love to stand on DVD’s on wooden polished floors and go skating.

This does not bode well for the DVD’s.

I was ripping “White Noise” to add to the growing digital media collection that we enjoy in this house and when the encoding conversion had completed, I noted that that the movie was only an hour and one minute long.

Sure enough….

there was no VTS_01_3.VOB.

I looked at the DVD, and there was the deep scratch that rendered a third of the DVD useless.

What are my choices for replacing the skating incurred damage to my DVD?

I could buy the DVD (again)

I could rent the DVD and just copy the .VOB files that were damaged or I could download the whole damned movie off the Internet.

It’s a shame there isn’t an industry shop that would sell me just the damaged portion of the disk as an un-DRM’ed digital file so that I can then run my encoder with a successful output.

I imagine I’m not alone in having grandchildren use DVD’s as skating devices, therefore this to me would appear to be a valid business opportunity for some enterprising person out there.

Although I’m not sure if Hollywood would give it’s blessing to selling one third of a movie.

I guess I’ll have to go back and buy another copy at the discount bin at Woolworths.

Now if only DVD’s were Durabis coated (anti-scratch protective coating), like Blu-ray discs. Then they could be skated on and still watched and we would have the best of both worlds.

Although, have you ever noticed that the industry is so far behind the technology sometimes that it only brings out these “wonders” when the technology is due to die a natural death anyway?

Within a few years, Australians will be able to download 50 GB movies in just a couple of hours.

Who needs a Blu-ray disc?

From the Tongue in Cheek Department.