Sometimes when one gets too confident in the progression of a particular goal, there’s one minor setback that can occasionally cause a major delay to said goal, case in point me during certain stages of The Flickuum Project.
You see, during the wee hours of yesterday, my DVD copy of “Strange World” skipped ahead to the six-plus minute mark, and completely froze after that to the point that there was nothing that I could do, except postpone The Flickuum Project to order a new DVD copy of that movie via the Barnes-N-Noble website and wait for it to arrive within a week or so. And as to why The Project will be postponed until the arrival, well I’ve stated multiple times that I can’t think of anything more fitting than that movie as evaluation number 1,313, thus letting that rule delay the August leg of The Project. And should the new DVD arrive beyond Sunday, well then I will have to defer some of my remaining evaluations of this month to next month to make the goal of getting to 1,355 before October 1 more feasible. But of course, this won’t be the first time that I’ll have to likely make significant modifications to The Flickuum schedule to counter such setbacks, with the defective DVD of the aforementioned “Strange World” being just the latest one.
Of course, I can’t omit my finding of the defect in the DVD from this entry, as that’s the very reason for this entry being written and it would be completely pointless for me to write it if I didn’t cite as such. So, with that being said, my finding was an irregular wave line in the media side of the DVD, thus the explanation of why something that was bought brand new played the way that it did. And while a rarity, line irregularities in the media side of a DVD have happened to me twice before, with A] A very small edge line being in the media side of the DVD for “From Paris With Love”, which caused that movie to completely freeze towards its end, and B] An even bigger wave line in the media side of the DVD for “Camp”, which caused that movie to skip 20 minutes forward. So, given those personal experiences, I believe the reasons for those three specific scenarios are A] At least one faulty disc being in a batch of blank ones for mass physical copy production of those three movies, B] Poor temperature control for batches of blank discs, and C] Poor temperate control for storage of those three specific DVD copies at any point. And to prevent such experiences from ever happening again, I’ll be checking the media sides of all DVDs bought that I brand new (or used yet untested) from 2021 to now and will be doing so for the duration of The Flickuum Project. And should I find any line irregularities and/or markings on the media side, then each disc will get a fast forward speed test in my DVD/Blu-ray combo player to ensure that what happened during the wee hours of yesterday never happens again. And I hope that other collectors of physical media are as stringent as I used to be or more than stringent than I was prior to this entry, because I am sure that there are other collectors way more thorough than me. And if you’re a collector that gets overconfident about a DVD simply because you brought it brand new, then check the media side of everything that you’re either unsure about or something that you just bought, so you too don’t go through what I’ve gone through three separate times. Plus, I’m pretty sure that others have gone through exact or similar experiences and I encourage them to share them like I have done with mine via this entry.
Pay it forward, don’t hold it back.