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Can a private customer edit a rented DVD?

novella

novella

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I rented Fast Times at Ridgemont High recently, and the 'bad' parts (drugs, nudity, etc.) were destroyed on the DVD, i.e., the DVD seemed to stop, fuzz out and then skip to the next scene. This happened about three times in the movie, always at a part that someone might want to censor.

I suspect that the video store doesn't know about it and that a customer took it upon him/her self to edit out or destroy those scenes somehow.

Is this possible? Has it every happened to anyone else? It's really upsetting, like getting a book out of the library and finding a bunch of pages torn out because they had something 'naughty' on them. It's like fucking jihad.
 
Weird... never heard of such a thing. Is it possible that someone re-watched these 'naughty' scenes over and over and somehow got a scratch on the DVD due to a dirty DVD player?
 
Man if that scene with Phoebe Cates coming out of the swimming pool was scratched out of that movie I would go freakin crazy....how could you have survived that movie with out that?????
 
I read an article that said some video stores were going to offer family versions(edited) of their movies. Maybe you picked one of those up by mistake.
 
I've gotten censored CDs from Walmart (who I will never buy a CD or DVD from again). They refuse to issue refunds for them based on the idea that "well, everyone knows our policies". Perhaps someone else made the same mistake so they rented the DVD and made a swap with their crappy edited version.
 
Ronny said:
I read an article that said some video stores were going to offer family versions(edited) of their movies. Maybe you picked one of those up by mistake.
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I find this concept incredibly silly. Same with watching silent rap videos on MTV. But i guess thats for another thread.
 
When I read about the clean family versions of movies, I thought how annoying. To have a choppy movie and there are so many good family movies already out there why watch an edited one?
 
mehastings said:
I've gotten censored CDs from Walmart (who I will never buy a CD or DVD from again). They refuse to issue refunds for them based on the idea that "well, everyone knows our policies". Perhaps someone else made the same mistake so they rented the DVD and made a swap with their crappy edited version.
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Hey, mehastings... that's a good idea!
 
I've always wanted to tape a porno over a rented movie.


You could do it with VHS, but I don't know about DVD.
 
Ronny said:
I read an article that said some video stores were going to offer family versions(edited) of their movies. Maybe you picked one of those up by mistake.
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I think the closest we have had to that over here was them selling two versions of 'King Arthur". A 12 (edited version) and a 15. This was the first time I had noticed it though. I'm certainly not keen on the idea.
 
leckert said:
Hey, mehastings... that's a good idea!
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Yea, I thought about it to some length. I had a great plan, but then I felt guilty and I just threw it out and vowed to stay away from Walmart.
 
mehastings said:
Yea, I thought about it to some length. I had a great plan, but then I felt guilty and I just threw it out and vowed to stay away from Walmart.
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lousy conscience. screws up some great plans!

and, Ronny... I'm not sure about re-burning DVDs. I'm not that technologically advanced. I am sure someone here is though. I think it depends on the disk, and how it was recorded.
 
novella said:
I rented Fast Times at Ridgemont High recently, and the 'bad' parts (drugs, nudity, etc.) were destroyed on the DVD, i.e., the DVD seemed to stop, fuzz out and then skip to the next scene. This happened about three times in the movie, always at a part that someone might want to censor.

I suspect that the video store doesn't know about it and that a customer took it upon him/her self to edit out or destroy those scenes somehow.

Is this possible? Has it every happened to anyone else? It's really upsetting, like getting a book out of the library and finding a bunch of pages torn out because they had something 'naughty' on them. It's like fucking jihad.
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Your situation really sucks, novella. I mean, Fast Times at Ridgemont High without any of the naughty bits is just Sean Penn waddling around going "dude".
 
I don't think you can. Rewritable only means that you do not have to record all you want in the DVD at the same time. You can record something now and something else next week, but the DVD will not play until you terminate it, i.e., put a code. Once you do that you cannot rewrite the DVD.
 
No actually there exists DVDs that you can erase and reburn. There are several types of writeable DVD's. CD+R and CD-R allows you to record one time only, but CD-RW and CD+RW allows you to burn and erase multiple times. Its pretty much the same as for writeable CD's.

What you are talking about is called Track-at-once (i think). Each track is separated by a small spacer in the cd/dvd.
 
No. What I meant was that, at least in the programme I have, you have to choose when you start if the CD or DVD is going to be a media one or not. If you want it for files you can do pretty much what you want with it. But for a media CD I need to introduce an end code which identifies it as a particular type of disk after I finished recording all I want on the disc or it would not play in normal DVD players or HI-FI equipment. It would still play in the computer without the code.

I can reformat the disk after that, but that's not the same as deleting parts of individual tracks.

There might be ways round it, though, like the old selotape on videos
 
Well he could potentially copy the dvd to his harddrive, edit it and then reburn the edited version if the DVD was of the rewritable type. However its unlikely that you can rewrite the DVD's you rent. If you switch the original DVD with a rewritable one the video store should be able to understand that its no longer the original disc.
 
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