TVDVDMania.com Low-Quality DVDs recorded off air marketed and sold as new Internet
I ordered the DVD box set of the television series '7 Days' off their Web site. The claim was:
"All 66 Uncut Episodes 3 Seasons on 12 DVDS
Excellent video and audio quality
100% in chronological order
Commercial free and unedited
This box set contains all 12 DVDs with Custom Artwork.
These DVDs are region free so they will play on any DVD player Worldwide and DVD-Rom, X-Box or PS2 worldwide.
These are brand new, in stock and ready to ship. On Sale for a Limited Time only."
What I received were poor quality recordings of the series as broadcast on Spike TV, evidently from China, on sloppily labeled and packaged recordable DVDs.
The video was recorded at 640x480 pixels, compressed at lowest quality and contained the Spike TV logo (and an occasional commercial). Labels, while printed, had a hand-written disk number on each, with two disks to a sleeve loose inside what appears to be an old VHS case. Labels on case and some disks were scratched.
There was a 14-day lag between order and delivery. To date, I have received no reply to the complaint I lodged with the company.
Jim
Colorado Springs, Colorado
U.S.A.