The persistant scars of the snapper case

The Neverending Story?

I've still got my Stanley Kubrick Collection in those shitheel snapper cases.

Hell, my copy of the Shining has this taped together section, where it fell off my shelf and broke the snapper part of the case.

There's also the Superman stuff, Pleasantville, Days of Wine and Roses, The Wind and The Lion, American History X, The Clint Eastwood Collection stuff and my Elvis flicks.

Snap cases are bad, but the worst DVD case ever has to be for "Curb Your Enthusiam". I don't know how to describe it really, except that there's a slide mechanism where you have to pull and push the case at the same time to get the DVD out. My roomate ended up breaking it because he just couldn't figure it out. He said that the case was sort of fitting as it was just as annoying as Larry David himself.

American History X?

I don't know if there's any way around it, but hate trying to get into my LOTR EE discs. You need three hands or a table or an assistant to get there. Love the movies though.

Slowly but surely it seems most of the films I really wish weren't snappers are getting a makeover. I'm most happy about HEAT, GOODFELLAS, and BATMAN for getting corrective surgery.

When I look at my DVDs you generally see a snapper here and there, except for one area where the snappers are everywhere...








Fix this Warner!

My copy of THREE KINGS has commentary and some very good featurettes - not sure where you got your bare bones edition.

I don't get the snapper case hate for single disc editions.

I have a hunch it has to do with obsessive-compulsive behaviour, wanting all cases to look the same.

Worst case ever? Schindler's List. It's such a tight fit you risk ripping it every time you try to remove the discs and the velcro patch on the front doesn't keep the flap closed.

Not only are they poorly designed, but they push into the artwork/plastic slip of the amray cases. A minor annoyance, if anything.

You know, I hate the snapper case as much as anybody, but at least WB had the good sense to use the theatrical posters for the DVD covers back then.

Contact
The Perfect Storm
Swordfish
Interview with the Vampire
Dreamcatcher

These are most of the snappers I own, I'm afraid if they re-release these, shit artwork will come come with them.

One release that blows my mind is Megadeth's "Rude Awakening". This came out fairly recently, and is in a damn snapper.

Yeah. When I got my copy new, it was a snapper. But, so was the first version of "Boogie Nights" on DVD.

I own snappers of Beetlejuice and The Matrix, and that's about it.
Never really had a problem with the idea except in that I prefer my discs protected by plastic, not cardboard.

Yeah, kinda like these:

http://www.dvdactive.com/news/releases/superman5.html

Seriously, someone needs to address the U.N. about the epidemic of shitty DVD cover art. But that's another thread in itself.

I really don't get the need for a big ol' amray case anyway, they could release DVDs in a CD jewel case as far as I'm concerned.

Yes, all four films will be available seperately as well. Good eye on spotting the difference with the 4-disc set. Looks like a Digipak to me, that'll probably have trays inside. But you're right, the packaging for SUPERMAN THE MOVIE is clearly different than the Amarays for the other three films.

I know at Walmart you can get American History X in hard case. What about the Exorcist either verison. Nightmare on Elm Street all of them with cut footage

I was going to make a similar comment-- it's a really nice DVD, despite the snapperhood. There are even a few hidden features that might not be listed on the package.

Snap cases are fucking horrible, i HATE them.
The person who invented these things should be crucified.

I know they've released 2 versions of Pee Wee's Big Adventure and both have been in the old snappers.

The old snapper cases I can live with. Whats driving me nuts are the amray cases with those two little pieces that snap off (I think Paramount is releasing them). Damn near put one through my finger when I opened my new copy of Black Rain today.

Those two little locks at the corners? Those are the fucking worst.

Except that you can twist them off easily.

And no, as anal as I am about my DVD collection, it doesn't bother me in the slightest. Tacky adhesives on cardboard packaging, covers that are torn when they peek under the top or bottom portion of the aramay during assembly and covered by the security stickers, cracked spindles that no longer hold the discs inside; though these do not pertain to the design of the cases, there are far worse things than the snap-locks. The snapper case proper IS still a bitch mixed on the shelves with the others, though.

Related question: is there any long-term harm in leaving dvds (or cds, for that matter) in a cd wallet? Loaded a bunch to take on a plane trip awhile back, left the wallet case on the shelf for a few days and when I got ready to unload the dvds back into their cases I looked back and forth from the compact wallet to the rows of dvd cases and smacked myself in the forehead REALLY hard for not thinking of this before.

I'm gonna buy 3 more wallets and free up a ton of shelf space unless someone can tell me that this may hurt my discs?

I hope not. I have my whole collection in soft cases.

Thanks, Wee-bey.

All truths.

And yet, I still hate the CB snapcases. They dent so easily and get tangled with others on the shelf. They also tear at the crease/perforation spine. What took WB so long to switch? The standard universal amaray with removable cover sheet seems like a more economic alternative than having to print on both sides of that thick CB & having that weird custom clasping plastic harness.

I am also a little annoyed with the card-stock sleeves that offer nothing but an exact duplicate of the interior cover. And the retailers that put ultra sticky price-tags on them, because the shrunk-wrapped amaray is inside. Save the money and leave these off.

And while I'm on a rant, why have complicated greeting-card, foldout boxsets (where the discs often come off their claw or worse, the entire plastic shelving comes un-glued from the CB), when a simple box with ultra-thin easily accessible cases works so nicely for other sets? Don't tell me that's why those X-Files sets were over a $100 until a little while back!

Don't get me started on box-art and the Photo-shop marketing monkeys that think they have skills with a mouse.

Rant over.

I have had my DVDs in the cd softcases for about two years now with no harm that I have noticed. It is a great space saver and a great way to flip through all my DVDs and pull out the one I want to watch quickly.

Update: My "Three Kings" DVD is Enhanced 16x9