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| 14 FEB 2006 at 4:35am |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By KingRyan (14 FEB 2006 3:59am)
I am full of stupid questions lately .... here is yet another installment ...
I bought a certain DVD Boxed set today that has 3 "double-sided" discs. Each disc has a yellow ring around the middle saying "ISC X, SIDE A" and then a smaller circle around the very middle saying "ISC X, SIDE B."
How does one get to Side B?!?
Does the other side of each disc have "SIDE A" in the middle? If so, I'd think that one side is A and the other is B, and they just have some weird way of saying that.
Trial and error should help here.
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| 14 FEB 2006 at 4:39am |
KingRyanSorcerer Apprentice
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I'd tried that before but it didn't play .... now, for whatever reason, it decided to work -- thanks!!
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| 14 FEB 2006 at 2:04pm |
Chris.Schattenjger
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Status : Online | I hate double-sided discs. They scratch too easily and I can never tell which side is which.
...not to be confused with Keira Knightley
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| 14 FEB 2006 at 3:02pm |
| Deleted User | If you have problems telling which side is which, here's a handy trick: Pick up the disc from the tray the side it is currently oriented and remember that orientation. Then flip the disc 180 degrees around any axis in the horizontal plane, just once. Congratulations, you are now looking at the other side! Another flip takes you back to the side where you started. Write this down on a note to remember and tell all your friends.
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| 14 FEB 2006 at 3:38pm |
The Terror of the Wolf part 3Schattenjger
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Status : Online | Petter, this isn't a 2-sided disk. It's a 3 sided one.
And I can't get my mind around it.
What the hell kind of freaky DVD did you buy??
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| 14 FEB 2006 at 4:18pm |
Chris.Schattenjger
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Petter_Holmberg (14 FEB 2006 3:01pm)
If you have problems telling which side is which, here's a handy trick: Pick up the disc from the tray the side it is currently oriented and remember that orientation. Then flip the disc 180 degrees around any axis in the horizontal plane, just once. Congratulations, you are now looking at the other side! Another flip takes you back to the side where you started. Write this down on a note to remember and tell all your friends.
Don't be cheeky! :
What I mean is, I want to watch Side A of a DVD. Should the side labelled SIDE A face upwards or downwards inside the machine?
...not to be confused with Keira Knightley
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| 14 FEB 2006 at 4:28pm |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By The Terror of the Wolf part 3 (14 FEB 2006 3:38pm)
Petter, this isn't a 2-sided disk. It's a 3 sided one.
Gaah! [smiley=shocked.gif] Universal Paradox! Can't. Stop. Dimensional. Warp. Laser. Reading. Impossible. Layer.
*puts on protective goggles*
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| 14 FEB 2006 at 4:34pm |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Offline | from experience: the side that has the writing on should be facing upwards to play side a, and downwards to play side b... don't know what happens if there's a side c...
You have gotten the attention of the mysterious lady. She turns to face you. Her face is devoid of any flesh. You are frozen with horror as she begins ripping your body into a bloody mess.
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| 14 FEB 2006 at 4:46pm |
| Deleted User | Yeah... They still assume we think of it like in the vinyl days, even though now they've somehow managed to put the pickup on the underside without making it fall off. Witchcraft I tell you... [smiley=scared.gif]
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| 14 FEB 2006 at 5:02pm |
Chris.Schattenjger
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Petter_Holmberg (14 FEB 2006 4:45pm)
Yeah... They still assume we think of it like in the vinyl days, even though now they've somehow managed to put the pickup on the underside without making it fall off. Witchcraft I tell you... [smiley=scared.gif]
That's what confused me. Because a record needle goes on the top of the record, and the laser reflects off the bottom of the DVD.
As for Side 3, obviously that's around the edge. It's a very very short video clip
...not to be confused with Keira Knightley
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| 14 FEB 2006 at 5:35pm |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By Chris. (14 FEB 2006 5:02pm)
As for Side 3, obviously that's around the edge. It's a very very short video clip
Hey... Maybe that's where the U.S. government stores all of their top-secret U.F.O. information that they don't want us to know anything about! All of this time, right in front of our noses. The last place we would look!
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| 14 FEB 2006 at 5:37pm |
krkdnosePrivate Detective
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Petter_Holmberg (14 FEB 2006 5:35pm)
Hey... Maybe that's where the U.S. government stores all of their top-secret U.F.O. information that they don't want us to know anything about! All of this time, right in front of our noses. The last place we would look!
Actually, no. They store it in the Library of Congress under the heading "Top-Secret U.F.O. information that we don't want anyone to know about". Definitely the last place anyone would look.
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| 14 FEB 2006 at 6:21pm |
Chris.Schattenjger
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Status : Online | Anyone can go and see that information in the Display Department. You know, the one in the cellar with no lights and no stairs, in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet in a disused toilet cubicle with "Beware of the Leopard" on the door?
...not to be confused with Keira Knightley
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| 14 FEB 2006 at 11:09pm |
| Deleted User | I bet they stored all that information on Laserdiscs and Betamax tapes. :
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| 15 FEB 2006 at 1:52am |
SirDaveGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Petter_Holmberg (14 FEB 2006 3:01pm)
If you have problems telling which side is which, here's a handy trick: Pick up the disc from the tray the side it is currently oriented and remember that orientation. Then flip the disc 180 degrees around any axis in the horizontal plane, just once. Congratulations, you are now looking at the other side! Another flip takes you back to the side where you started. Write this down on a note to remember and tell all your friends.
Now that's really mean!
Here's the really answer (listen closely- if you screw it up, you will make the Dvd unwatchable): First, insert the Dvd exactly as it was placed in the Dvd case when you bought it- you are playing Side A. Now once you are finished playing Side A (and make very sure you are finished Side A because you won't be able to watch again after the following step!). Now insert a razor blade under and fully around the yellow circle working carefully outward towards the outside of the Dvd until you have lifted off what is the first layer of this dual layer, double sided disk. Be sure to lift off the layer evenly as that will now expose the 2nd layer which is Side B. Enjoy!
The future ain't what it used to be!
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| 15 FEB 2006 at 2:03am |
The Terror of the Wolf part 3Schattenjger
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By SirDave (15 FEB 2006 1:52am)
Here's the really answer (listen closely- if you screw it up, you will make the Dvd unwatchable): First, insert the Dvd exactly as it was placed in the Dvd case when you bought it- you are playing Side A. Now once you are finished playing Side A (and make very sure you are finished Side A because you won't be able to watch again after the following step!). Now insert a razor blade under and fully around the yellow circle working carefully outward towards the outside of the Dvd until you have lifted off what is the first layer of this dual layer, double sided disk. Be sure to lift off the layer evenly as that will now expose the 2nd layer which is Side B. Enjoy!
O.O
......
Whoever made that disk is a bleeding psychopath.
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| 15 FEB 2006 at 3:35pm |
ElfstoneGuild Master
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| 15 FEB 2006 at 3:51pm |
| Deleted User | If you miss the record flipping of the good old vinyl days, you can take your favorite album on CD, burn half of the tracks on two different CD-R discs and glue the two together. Even better, if you live with someone who own two albums that you really hate, you can glue them together too. Just apply the glue on the opposite sides!
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| 15 FEB 2006 at 4:06pm |
Chris.Schattenjger
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Petter_Holmberg (15 FEB 2006 3:51pm)
If you miss the record flipping of the good old vinyl days, you can take your favorite album on CD, burn half of the tracks on two different CD-R discs and glue the two together.
I tried that, but the needle on the turntable kept slipping...
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| 15 FEB 2006 at 5:46pm |
Pastor DisasterJourneyman
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Status : Online | I think it would be perfectly obvious how they made a CD with a side C. It's a flexagon.
Dyslexics wonder why there isn't a word that means the same thing as "cinnamon."
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