Do you keep your DVDs in their original cases? I once set off a
detector going into the University Bookstore, because it detected the
magnetic strip inside a DVD I had purchased elsewhere (and had already
wrapped up for mailing).
Next time it happens, take a look inside the case. Or walk the case
past the detector, without the DVD inside.
Brigid Duffy
Academic Technology
San Francisco State University
San Francisco, CA 94132-4200
E-mail: [email protected]
On Jun 16, 2011, at 8:32 AM, Foster, Jennifer wrote:
Apologies for cross-posting.
We have 3M equipment for sensitizing and desensitizing 3M security
strips on VHS tapes and DVDs. We have security pass-through gates
that are supposed to go off if an item that goes through the gate
has not been desensitized, generally designed to prevent stealing.
I’m sure many of you use the same kind of system.
Our DVDs and tapes very routinely set off the gates, even though the
materials have been checked out, and supposedly desensitized. It is
so frequent that the folks watching the doors downstairs have quit
stopping people because “it happens all the time…” It does NOT,
however, happen with books going through the same gates, so
thankfully, we are ruling out the very expensive gates as the
culprits.
We strip every DVD or VHS in a case. I am trying to troubleshoot
what the issue could be before I declare it the desensitizer and
have to buy a new one. I think it could be user error, the strips,
maybe the placement of the strips?, the cases (standard plastic), or
the desensitizer. Has anyone else had this issue? How did you
troubleshoot it? What did you find that I could try? Thanks very
much for any thoughts on this…jen
Jennifer Foster
Media Librarian
Victoria College/University of Houston-Victoria Library
361.570.4195
http://vcuhvlibrary.uhv.edu
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