They are annoying little blighters, but they do prevent the untrained DVD user (young
or old) from accidentally ruining a perfect condition DVD.
This is one of the reasons why I am the one who
sets the DVD in the Player . . . no one else in the family really knows, and they know (from me) that touching a
DVD other than the sides will ultimately ruin it in the end . . .
What about inserting the finger in the middle of the disc?
yeah, I’m an UBER freak when it comes to that, I
can’t stand the people that complain their isn’t working when they haven’t had it in it’s case since they
bought it and pick it up like a slice of pizza
I’m wiith chu therre
luxo, but the funny thing is that I’ve seen discs that look like they’ve been scratched with glass and still
play through with very few skips. 
Ha – I was hoping somebody
would make a post on this!! 
I absolutely des-pise those things. The way
they snap when you least expect it; when they click and won’t open up until you’ve worn your fingers down to
bits. They should outlaw them; make them illegal! Ahh heck…there I go again… 
[b]The
bad side of DVDs[/b]: The tabs…
The good side of DVDs: The
“flippies”. You know those little black…“security” things inside the dvd cover? Well, if
you peel those off the DVD, bend them in half, and then place them on your fingers, they’ll flip into the air!
Coolness and frustration all rolled into one!
Yeah i
dont know why they have those there. I have some early dvds where’s it’s basically just folded cardboard that
snaps into a plastic edge. I’ve got like 4 or 5 different kinds of cases. Like Jack Black said on the School of
Rock commentary:
"take the dvd out now,
put it back in the jewel case,
Cuz they arent
indesructible like they said they were
back in 1989!"
Or you can just be liek my friend and
open the case with so much force the tabs come up on their own… nearly broken, although.
Ha! I did that
once. It scared me so much that I never tried it again. 