Don't you hate modern DVD's...

[Mini-Me]

Today, I bought a copy of Harry Potter 5(Order Of The Phoenix), to go with all the other movies in my collection from the Harry Potter series.

When I put DVD 2 in(special features), it cycles through about 50 different copies of the copyright notice, in just about every language you can think of.

YOU CAN'T skip this, as if you try, you get the little red circle with the diagonal line through it, meaning that you can't do that(skip and go directly to the menu).

So, you are FORCED to sit and wait for about 3 minutes, while all this crap cycles though, before you can select anything from the main menu.

I ejected the disc...

This is something on modern DVD's which is becoming a major problem - being forced to watch all this copyright notice crap, that no-one wants to watch, and at the same time, denying you access to the main menu until this has played right through.

Is it any wonder so many people rip DVD's to computer-based formats, where they can bypass all this junk, and just get to the movie!
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[mjc]

Ahhh...an "I hate this" thread...

And the reason sales are dropping is?

If the idjits in H-wood would spend half the effort on providing quality, then there wouldn't be the lackluster sales they keep moaning about (but most of the lackluster is due to the fact that sales of media haven't quite increased according to expectations, not that they have actually stopped...).

Besides, that notice is about as effective as parking a nice, new, shiny sports car in a part of town known for auto theft with a sign on it saying, if you steal this car and get caught, you will have to pay a fine...

I also wonder what kind/how much copy protection and DRM are included.

[pave_spectre]

I found that a lot of the time if I play dvds on my computer, bits I cant skip can still be fast forwarded through (not always though.). crank it as fast as it will go and it's almost like skipping.

[Mini-Me]

Besides, that notice is about as effective as parking a nice, new, shiny sports car in a part of town known for auto theft with a sign on it saying, if you steal this car and get caught, you will have to pay a fine...

LOL!
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Exactly.

Hope you don't mind my posting a rant!
:p

I try not to do it too often, but this kinda annoys me...

The other thing they have started doing, is a 2 minute or so thing with loud music suggesting that everyone is downloading pirated DVD's.

You can't skip this either...
:mad:

I have never downloaded a DVD movie.
It is far easier, and a whole lot faster, just to wait for a DVD sale, and pick it up for $15-20.{NZ dollars}(unless you REALLY want it NOW, in which case, you have to pay full-price for it.)

I wonder if there really are as many movies being downloaded, as the studios suggest. To get a reasonable video quality, the movie needs to have a high-ish bitrate in any video format, and the movie needs to be around 1GB at least, for any kind of quality.

Are they really suggesting that millions of people are downloading gigantic movie files like that this much?

Seems a little hard to believe to me - even WITH broadband...
(but I could be wrong - chime in here if you know different.)

That blaring "Piracy" thing comes on first before the menu in just about every DVD movie I have bought in the last year or so. Always the same. No speech, just shots of a girl at a computer(supposedly downloading hundreds of movies), with captions like: "You wouldn't steal a car"; "You wouldn't steal a TV" etc...

While the studios definitely have a right to stop piracy, I think it is pointless to put these things on DVD's, cos the hard-core pirates DON'T WATCH the DVD's, they just copy them, so the intended audience is not seeing the message, and I doubt they would care if they did.

All it does, is annoy people like me, who paid hard-earned cash for an authentic movie, and then you can't skip this crud, and get to the movie!

*sigh*

Pave: With the static text-copyright notices, I can't FF them either. That was a good idea, and I had not thought of that, so I ploped my Harry Potter 5 disc 2 back in, and tried to FF the notices - same red "Sorry - you can't" symbol. HOWEVER, I could FF the "Pirate" video(just can't skip it), so that's handy to know.
:)