Why I hate to rent or buy movies nowdays

[Technoid]

[Tjalfe]

even better is all the trash trailers they add on some DVD's

[Jessterw]

It's assuring that others feel as strong in their hatred of this crap on purchased DVDs as I do

I've never been able to grasp the logic employed in showing anti-piracy garbage on aforementioned DVDs when the audience those messages should be intended for will never see them. I say 'should' because I've long since come to the conclusion that these anti-piracy messages are targeted towards those of us who actually obtain our DVDs 'legally', so that we might somehow grow to hate the pirates for making us watch such garbage.

[Technoid]

Well, it ain't working

The only thing it makes me hate, are the idiots that decided to include it

If they'd make a "Thank you for buying this dvd instead of dl'in it" ad It would probably have a greater effect, making it really short and unobtrusive and of course skippable would increase the effect

[Jammrock]

That's what Zoom player with DScaler and AnyDVD is for. You can skip all the "unskippable" content with them and it looks better than most DVD players.

[NetSnake]

actually, the ad can be fast forwarded in most DVDs

[ND66]

actually, the ad can be fast forwarded in most DVDs

But not all.

Some of them, if you FF past the end of the last ad .......... it starts all over ........ again!

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[Dr Mordrid]

All the more reason to do a little re-authoring.

[TnT]

At some point executives forget anything they've learned about customer satisfaction.

I only watched DVDs on my Linux computer for several years and always skipped through crap at the beginning. Then when I was at my parents house and put in a DVD I got frustrated when I realized it wasn't normal operation to skip the messages.

[Brian Ellis]

Can't say the copyright notice bothers me. Saw this on VHS tapes, as well. Yes, trailers are a PITA.

Where the guy in the ad is wrong is that he may own the support, be it tape or a 15 cm disc of polycarbonate, but he doesn't own any of the copyright material; he has only the licence to view it according to the cited conditions. If you buy a book, do you object to the copyright notice and conditions on the back of the title page? It is EXACTLY analogous.

[VJ]

If you buy a book, do you object to the copyright notice and conditions on the back of the title page? It is EXACTLY analogous.

Nope: I can skip those pages in the book; nobody is forcing me to read them. I could even fast forward on a VHS tape. I cannot skip the copyright notice on a DVD. I believe those notices have a duration of 15-20s, with an annoying music to top it off.

I personally find the notice quite annoying, but not to the point where it would put me off of buying dvds.


Jörg

[Technoid]

Can't say the copyright notice bothers me. Saw this on VHS tapes, as well. Yes, trailers are a PITA.

Where the guy in the ad is wrong is that he may own the support, be it tape or a 15 cm disc of polycarbonate, but he doesn't own any of the copyright material; he has only the licence to view it according to the cited conditions. If you buy a book, do you object to the copyright notice and conditions on the back of the title page? It is EXACTLY analogous.

It ain't!

Nothing forces you to read the notices, you yourself decides how much time to dedicate to each page of the book.

I've yet to read a book who dedicates 10 pages on how immoral and illegal it is to own and use a xerox machine.

the exact analogue would be the copyright notice that are in the end of movies....

[Byock]

Agreed, Anydvd is an Awesome program. Otherwise on my HTPC I would have to change the resolution from 1080i down to 480p every time I want to watch a movie.

[Brian Ellis]

It ain't!

Nothing forces you to read the notices, you yourself decides how much time to dedicate to each page of the book.

I've yet to read a book who dedicates 10 pages on how immoral and illegal it is to own and use a xerox machine.

the exact analogue would be the copyright notice that are in the end of movies....

Nothing forces you to read the copyright notice on a DVD, either. It's there for what? 15, 20 seconds perhaps and is usually a single page. It's usually over by the time I regain my seat after starting a DVD, anyway.

Most books nowadays have long screeds about forbidding all forms of copying, so, no, the notice at the end is not equivalent.

As I said, impassable trailers are much worse, as they sometimes last several minutes.

[Umfriend]

OK, say 15 secs. Most of us regain our seat within 5 secs, so 10 secs lost.
Let's say 10 mln ppl watch a movie once a week. That is 520 mln movies a year, 5,200 mln sec. Now I gotta grab Excel, hang on a minute (this will last less than 20 secs, DON"T GET AGRREVATED!)...That equates to:
86.7 mln Minutes
1.4 mln hours
60,185 days
164.89 MAN YEARS! A YEAR
That is about 2 lives a year they take. It's ****ing murder.