Texas Wahine said:
| Then you have those little clippy things on the side and you don't realize it and keep trying to open the damned DVD and it won't even budge. |
heh. I'm there with you on those too. On the one hand I like that the keep case is designed to keep from flying open, but on the other hand, if I don't know those clips are there, I'm gonna look foolish trying to open the case.
I'd really like to see DVD cases switched to something more environmentally friendly though, and also more storage space friendly. I hate the wasteful nature of the current keep cases. They're almost twice as tall as they need to be, and at least twice as thick as they need to be. Most movies don't come with anything inside, or just a quick chapter list or something similar. There's cover art on the case, but it doesn't need to be that tall either. Just make the packages smaller and more environmentally friendly all around. Use the ultra thin type that are used for some CDs and use some shrink wrap or similar plastic wrap to keep the thing sealed.
Ooops, that can't be done because the retailers have to slide in the little magnetic sensor that is used by their inventory control system (i.e., theft detection) and those won't fit into the smaller cases, or so believe the retailers.
Again, I call b.s. on that stuff. With RFID technology and similar technology there are flatter inventory control system tags, about the size of a 1.5 x 1.5 inch square sticker. I've seen them used. Put that on a corner of the case. Make it useful even by putting the price tag over it. Use the rest of the case for pretty art work, or whatever. But for gosh sakes, stop wasting space on store shelves, and in my home for the bigger cases when smaller ones would work and let me squeeze almost 2 or 3 times (if not more) the number of movies into the same physical space.
Just my $0.02
