Blu-Ray: F*** You

[ALF]

Friggity frig.

I hate BluRay because discs (all of them in general, DVD and so on) are too easy to scratch. They are a flawed medium.
Anyways. All I need is The Big Lebowski and a bucket of Kentucky Fried and I'll watch that fukka on crappy EP VHS.

 

[The Wormhole]

Usually, when I run into this problem on DVDs I press the Menu button, or the Chapter Skip button or the Fast Forward button. One of them works.

 

[Mike Farley]

Friggity frig.

I hate BluRay because discs (all of them in general, DVD and so on) are too easy to scratch. They are a flawed medium.
Anyways. All I need is The Big Lebowski and a bucket of Kentucky Fried and I'll watch that fukka on crappy EP VHS.

Actually Blu-rays have a pretty robust protective coating. They are pretty hard to accidentally scratch.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

Usually, when I run into this problem on DVDs I press the Menu button, or the Chapter Skip button or the Fast Forward button. One of them works.

I haven't found a disc yet (knock on wood...) where one of those doesn't work though the FF is the worst of the bunch.

Has anyone ever heard of a player (DVD or BD) that bypasses the prohibited user operations? I mean I've seen players without copy protection and region-hacked but I've never seen one where that is the case.

 

[Mike Farley]

I actually have one disk, well set of disks, where none of those options work. The True Blood Season 2 Blu-rays. Each disk(!) starts with a bit detailing how you can link, while watching, to your facebook page and turn your profile pic into a vampire, share clips, etc. And you can't get past it without watching. A minor annoyance, but still...I wouldn't have even minded of it had only been on the 1st disk...but it's ON EVERY ONE OF THEM.

 

[C.E. Evans]

Re: Blu-Ray: F* You

IMO, we might be seeing more unskippable material on discs if more advertisers start looking at it as a regular outlet to push their product. Trailers today, actual full-blown commercials tomorrow (although some are already doing that now)...

 

[Trekker4747]

Putting trailers on DVDs, or hell on video tapes, is just stupid. I mean, in a few years are those trailers really even "promoting" anything worthwhile? Maybe with Blu-Ray one of the frimware updates can cause the player to look at a disc and say, "Hey, this disc is eighteen months old, I think I'll just skip the trailers."

I mean, OK, maybe it wouldn't do it on the age of the disc but maybe it could do it based on the title or something.

 

[Tulin]

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I've seen it on regular DVDs. It's fucking bullshit. Just proof that movie studios don't give a fuck about consumers, and that the DVD standards bodies care even less.

It should not be part of the fucking standard to have unskippable sections on a DVD/Blu-ray. Fucking assholes.

This.

Don't recall the movie now, but I bought a Fox movie last year (some stupid disaster film or another, I think) that had 30 minutes of fucking film trailers (unskippable) at load up. 30 minutes. It was as if they had a trailer for every fucking homemovie that some intern in the mail-room made. Then it got into the anti-piracy PSA shit. I got so pissed I took the disc back to the store and traded it in for an Itunes card and came home and downloaded a bunch of Enterprise episodes.

So you lost out both ways, huh?

 

[RoJoHen]

Putting trailers on DVDs, or hell on video tapes, is just stupid. I mean, in a few years are those trailers really even "promoting" anything worthwhile? Maybe with Blu-Ray one of the frimware updates can cause the player to look at a disc and say, "Hey, this disc is eighteen months old, I think I'll just skip the trailers."

I mean, OK, maybe it wouldn't do it on the age of the disc but maybe it could do it based on the title or something.

Or maybe it would connect to the internet and force you to watch NEW trailers!

 

[Amaris]

Putting trailers on DVDs, or hell on video tapes, is just stupid. I mean, in a few years are those trailers really even "promoting" anything worthwhile? Maybe with Blu-Ray one of the frimware updates can cause the player to look at a disc and say, "Hey, this disc is eighteen months old, I think I'll just skip the trailers."

I mean, OK, maybe it wouldn't do it on the age of the disc but maybe it could do it based on the title or something.

Or maybe it would connect to the internet and force you to watch NEW trailers!

This.

 

[Tulin]

Now if you'll excuse me I have to check how many dataz are left in my monthly cap.

This.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

Re: Blu-Ray: Fuck You

Some of them are also still trying to figure out how to rewind the disc once they've seen the movie.

I use this:

 

[mredom]

Why spend energy being pissed? Seriously, I sometimes enjoy the trailers more than the actual movies. It's my favorite part of going to the theater. I love movie trailers. Sometimes I'll pull out a dvd that has a cool trailer on it just to watch the trailer.

I'm not kidding. I think you just need to change your mindset and learn to enjoy the inevitable...

 

[JonathonWally]

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None of my DVDs - Blu or not - have had *unskippable* trailers.

It's on rental copies.

In the US, they don't differentiate between retail copies or rental copies.

The Blu-ray you get from Netflix is the same one you would buy in the store.

 

[MNM]

Why spend energy being pissed?

Because it's annoying.

 

[Dusty Ayres]

Why spend energy being pissed? Seriously, I sometimes enjoy the trailers more than the actual movies. It's my favorite part of going to the theater. I love movie trailers. Sometimes I'll pull out a dvd that has a cool trailer on it just to watch the trailer.

I'm not kidding. I think you just need to change your mindset and learn to enjoy the inevitable...

^^^THIS!!!!!

That's what I do, too. (Mind you, I don't have Blu-Ray discs or a Blu-Ray DVD player, but I will get one soon.)

 

[barnaclelapse]

Why spend energy being pissed? Seriously, I sometimes enjoy the trailers more than the actual movies. It's my favorite part of going to the theater. I love movie trailers. Sometimes I'll pull out a dvd that has a cool trailer on it just to watch the trailer.

I'm not kidding. I think you just need to change your mindset and learn to enjoy the inevitable...

I'm personally hoping to be so annoyed by the little things that I wind up stroking out at forty-five.

That's my goal, anyway.

 

[JohnChod]

A while back, I saw a short video on cnet.com that claimed pressing STOP-STOP-PLAY on your remote would by-pass all of the "unskippable" stuff. I haven't tried it yet, but might be worth giving a go? Post your results if you try it.

As for trailers themselves, I do love seeing them at the theatre (although I seldom go anymore), but hate them on DVD.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Why spend energy being pissed? Seriously, I sometimes enjoy the trailers more than the actual movies. It's my favorite part of going to the theater. I love movie trailers. Sometimes I'll pull out a dvd that has a cool trailer on it just to watch the trailer.

I'm not kidding. I think you just need to change your mindset and learn to enjoy the inevitable...

Movie trailers have NOT been the same since Don LaFontaine died.

One man...One desire...One solution...

 

[doubleohfive]

Count me in the camp that thinks "Wow, this sucks ... but it's not that big a deal."