Network DVD Box Sets - Urgent help needed

[Jackdaw]

This will make me appear terribly thick, but although I have owned about a half-dozen Network sets, I've always had the utmost difficulty in getting the disks out of the case.

Usually, after much effort and swearing, it finally comes away, but my new Gideon's Way has defeated me.

Please, someone tell me - how does their retaining system work??

I'm terrified of snapping a disk and the whole thing has me



Ta xx



btw - Janedaw can't do it either, so if the forum can't help, we'll have to dragoon a passing twelve year-old.

[batman]

They are a bit tricky, but the best way is to keep your thumb on the centre clip and ease them off using the edge of the disk.

[Mr Cosmo]

By coincidence I was playing GIDEONS WAY today and had the same problem with it. Agree with the advice given above.

[CaptainWaggett]

I must be a denizen of the Village of the Damned because I didn't have a problem with it and I normally have trouble with scissors, door handles, toner cartridges, the twenty first century...

[Chevyman]

Me too and not just with Network products.



What batman said usually works for me. Once I've removed the shrinkwrap which suppliers seem to weld on...................

[lostintown]

Oh, I've got a tip for shrinkwrap.



Try running the encased tape/dvd down the edge of a table or something else with a defined edge. It tends to give you a good start and doesn't damage the product.



If that doesn't work.. swear, throw it in the bucket and wait for the film to get shown on TV.

[batman]

Re shrinkwrap .... just pierce it with a small knife where the finger grip is on the box, then separate the gap in the shrinkwrap with the knife and enough should split free so that you can peel it off.

[Jackdaw]

Thanks for the interest, everyone.

I now seem to have some hope of removing the disks from the box without damage - but what a useless piece of design.

I have in my collection, a box set of Lytton's Diary by Delta, and this has the best retaining system I've yet seen, easy to remove, painless on the fingers and very secure.

I think I'll have to get on to Network and give them the benefit of my opinion on this matter.............if I can be arsed!



Cheers

[Chevyman]

Thanks gents for your suggestions on the shrinkwrap.



I usually use my boning knife on the area that batman mentioned.



So far i've not damaged the product or me

[GRAEME]

name='Chevyman']Thanks gents for your suggestions on the shrinkwrap.



I usually use my boning knife on the area that batman mentioned.



So far i've not damaged the product or me

You have a knife for boning??!!



That's kinky...

[Chevyman]

name='GRAEME']You have a knife for boning??!!



That's kinky...

When you marry a butcher's daughter and he teaches you how to bone etc etc

[GRAEME]

name='Chevyman']



When you marry a butcher's daughter and he teaches you how to bone etc etc

Ha!



She was only a butcher's daughter -

But she could lie on the slab and say fillet.



Or is that Fishmongers?



Fishmongers I feel sure also use knives for boning! And their fingers always smell of scampi fries...



QED!

[Chevyman]

name='GRAEME']Ha!



She was only a butcher's daughter -

But she could lie on the slab and say fillet.



Or is that Fishmongers?



Fishmongers I feel sure also use knives for boning! And their fingers always smell of scampi fries...



QED!

I won't mention my paring knife

[Jackdaw]

name='GRAEME']



She was only a butcher's daughter -

But she could lie on the slab and say fillet.

I don't wish to know that - kindly leave the thread.



PS. Not the most techie thread we've had, is it. Poor thing, but mine own.



Later I shall be asking how to open a door.

[batman]

name='Jackdaw']



Later I shall be asking how to open a door.

It all depends on the ratio between the size of your hand and your knob!

[Chevyman]

name='Jackdaw']I don't wish to know that - kindly leave the thread.



PS. Not the most techie thread we've had, is it. Poor thing, but mine own.



Later I shall be asking how to open a door.

Hi-jacked by an old joke that I'm sure we've heard before?



Never mind Jackdaw, some of us took it seriously and you've had some useful answers.



Here's wishing you well in your toils with those pesky DVD cases, while my struggle with the packaging goes on



Cheers

[Mr Martin]

name='Jackdaw']This will make me appear terribly thick, but although I have owned about a half-dozen Network sets, I've always had the utmost difficulty in getting the disks out of the case.

Usually, after much effort and swearing, it finally comes away, but my new Gideon's Way has defeated me.

Please, someone tell me - how does their retaining system work??

I'm terrified of snapping a disk and the whole thing has me

Yes - the Gideon's Way boxes are about the worst. Some of the other Network programme boxes are OK - Its a pity that such a good DVD producer like Network cannot ensure that their product is always well packaged.



Judging by the comments on this posting I now know there are some other people out there suffering the same problem of removing the discs from the cases.





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[Gazza]

Well I've found ways to deal with the packaging (knife). I've snapped a DVD before so now take more care though this can sometimes involve growing one finger nail longer than usual, or releasing the disc and turning the case upside down, letting it drop into an outstretched palm.



My final battle is dealing with the white security strip that companies like Moviemars use is that an American thing? This sticks itself with passion to the plastic sleeve cover - a deft knife slice along the top seam seems a good idea but merely makes it a problem of two halves.



I'm a bit psycho about sticky labels - they have to come off wherever they may be. What I can't bear is when they won't come off cleanly and tear off in tiny bits or leave the glue behind.



If I see someone reading a book on the tube and it has a Buy 2 for 3 sticker on it, I sooo want to lean over and peel it off.



Hm, what does all that say about me?

[dremble wedge]

name='Gazza']

I'm a bit psycho about sticky labels - they have to come off wherever they may be. What I can't bear is when they won't come off cleanly and tear off in tiny bits or leave the glue behind.



If I see someone reading a book on the tube and it has a Buy 2 for 3 sticker on it, I sooo want to lean over and peel it off.



Hm, what does all that say about me?

It says that you are a well-rounded individual in the best of order. You are correct in your wish to get rid of the unsightly adhesives.

[Gazza]

Thanks for the encouragement dremble

name='Gazza']If I see someone reading a book on the tube and it has a Buy 2 for 3 sticker on it, I sooo want to lean over and peel it off.

However, I've just realised why I seem to pay so much for books. I meant 3 for 2 of course.