Blu-Ray: F*** You

[doubleohfive]

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...

YES. Precisely.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

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 like trailers too, and when they are in the special features, I usually check them out. When I want to watch a movie I own though I don't want to be forced to watch the same trailers every single time before I watch the movie.

It doesn't consume my day but I can't help being a bit peved when I see a circle with a line through it when I hit the menu button.

 

[John Clark]

I like trailers too, and when they are in the special features, I usually check them out. When I want to watch a movie I own though I don't want to be forced to watch the same trailers every single time before I watch the movie.

It doesn't consume my day but I can't help being a bit peved when I see a circle with a line through it when I hit the menu button.

It is a bit of a peeve for me too, especially on TV series dvds. I tend to watch those during my lunch break at work and not always being able to skip straight to the feature means there isn't always quite enough time

 

[Unionized Elf]

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Trailers today, actual full-blown commercials tomorrow (although some are already doing that now)...

I have noticed car commercials on many DVDs.

 

[jefferiestubes8]

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It's crazy how people will find any reason at all to bitch about blu-ray.

Yep.
Can't Stomach Blu-Ray
thread started May 15, 2009.

 

[barnaclelapse]

(Looks around)

You cats ever heard of a...a...TEASER...?

Apparently...

(Looks around again)

It's like a trailer....

Only...

(Shudders)

Shorter...

 

[Davros]

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This is not just a blu-ray issue, I have several DVD's that do the same thing.

Same here

 

[SeerSGB]

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I noticed the other day on mom's older Emerson DVD player that it would skip trailers were as my new Sanyo player (DVD) won't.

So some of it could be player-models? Some can get the skip, some can't.

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?

All though, have some fun: Tell someone that's a Twilight fan that you downloaded Twilight, the day the movie came out. They think you have a boot' and they end up watching a episode of Enterprise.

 

[Dane_Whitman]

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I have over 250 blu-rays and I've never encountered one with trailers you can't skip. Like another user said, just use the chapter skip button if pushing the menu button doesn't help. Blu-ray is an awesome format.

 

[DeafPoet]

It's been ages since I ran into a disc with trailers that I couldn't get around somehow. They're a minor pain in the ass but they're not going away so I don't get too worked up about it.

 

[Rii]

Three trailers and a fucking advert for chocolate on the UK Chloe Blu-Ray for a total runtime of over six minutes of bullshit. Coupled with all the other niggling issues the format brings, I think it's safe to say that Blu-Ray actually represents a step backwards from DVD. Certainly it's a step backwards from ThePirateBay.

 

[Trekker4747]

Three trailers and a fucking advert for chocolate on the UK Chloe Blu-Ray for a total runtime of over six minutes. Coupled with all the other niggling issues the format brings, I think it's safe to say that Blu-Ray actually represents a step backwards from DVD. Certainly it's a step backwards from ThePirateBay.

THREAD NECROMANCY!!!!

And I don't see how the number of trailers and commercials compared to the runtime of your show has anything to do with the format but, whatever.

 

[Amaris]

Three trailers and a fucking advert for chocolate on the UK Chloe Blu-Ray for a total runtime of over six minutes. Coupled with all the other niggling issues the format brings, I think it's safe to say that Blu-Ray actually represents a step backwards from DVD.

I haven't had a single issue with any of my Blu-ray discs, and my player is considered "low end". Jumping past commercials is very easy, I have no compatibility problems, it loads fast and the picture quality is spectacular compared to DVD.

Certainly it's a step backwards from ThePirateBay.

Yeah, well, generally, stealing bread is so much cheaper than buying it, but that doesn't necessarily make it a better alternative.

 

[Rii]

Certainly it's a step backwards from ThePirateBay.

Yeah, well, generally, stealing bread is so much cheaper than buying it, but that doesn't necessarily make it a better alternative.

Who said anything about cheaper? The product is simply better. And cheaper.

 

[Lonemagpie]

Not having Blu-Ray, what I hate is that, in the UK, we're starting to see releases where the region-coded DVD is cut, but the region-free Blu-Ray is uncut at a higher rating (so they don't have to master a second version) - The Hangover is a perfect example- the DVD is a 15, and missing the naked guy jumping out of the car trunk and hanging on the other guy's back, and the Blu-Ray is an uncut 18. Those of us without Blu-Ray players are being censored.

(It'll be interesting to see what happens with Indiana Jones and the Temple Of Doom on Blu-Ray. Given that the cut UK version is Spielberg's preferred version, I suspect that's what the rest of the world will now get...)

 

[Joeman]

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I don't recall having any that are unskippable. I have about 200 DVDs. The copyright notice is often unskippable but you can ff through it.

Same here. I have over 300 and do not recall encountering any unskippable trailers, or at least not any that I can't get past somehow.

I have not yet ventured into the Blu-ray thing, so thanks for the heads up. That is indeed utter bullshit.

 

[Amaris]

Certainly it's a step backwards from ThePirateBay.

Yeah, well, generally, stealing bread is so much cheaper than buying it, but that doesn't necessarily make it a better alternative.

Who said anything about cheaper? The product is simply better. And cheaper.

So your stolen Pirate Bay copy is better than the actual Blu-ray. Ooookay. I'm thinking you're just saying this to say it, because if you're not, well .

 

[Rii]

Yeah, well, generally, stealing bread is so much cheaper than buying it, but that doesn't necessarily make it a better alternative.

Who said anything about cheaper? The product is simply better. And cheaper.

So your stolen Pirate Bay copy is better than the actual Blu-ray. Ooookay. I'm thinking you're just saying this to say it, because if you're not, well .

The Pirate Bay version:

1. Doesn't come with ads, skippable or otherwise.
2. Doesn't require specialised hardware to run.
3. Doesn't require specialised software* to run.
4. Can be streamed all over the house.
5. Doesn't bug me to go online to download the latest 'content' (read: advertising)

* In my case, software which insists on disabling Aero whenever a Blu-Ray is playing, which on a dual-screen setup is a process about as unobtrusive as, well, a Blu-Ray filed amidst a dozen DVDs.

 

[tomalak301]

You know what I wonder? Whose Idea was it to put trailers on the DVD for the thing that you are currently watching. I've been watching Enterprise and on Disc 1 in season 4, they are promoted Seasons 3 and 4. I can understand Season 3 (Or maybe not since doesn't it go without saying if you have season 4 you might have season 3 too?) but I'm currently watching your stinking product. Don't need it advertised to me as well.

 

[Too Much Fun]

I'm currently watching your stinking product. Don't need it advertised to me as well.

I wonder if anyone out there realizes the irony of sticking an anti-piracy trailer after a bunch of unskippable trailers. Whose bright idea was it to tell the consumer not to download movies after providing an example of one of the best reasons to justify downloading movies in the first place?