Trailers on purchased DVD

billy the squid · 03-04-2005 7:05am #1

having bought some DVDs recently I have seen this on some of the discs that I have bought.

It is very annoying. fair enough you might want them on rented DVDs to advertise what other films are availible to rent. but when you buy a film it may not be a new film, and the trailers may be out of date or the films being advertised might not be availible anymore.

I was just wondering does anyone else share my view that there should be no trailers on purchased movies.

Pigman II · 03-04-2005 8:57am

I agree. I think disney/touchstone do this a lot with their retail dvds?

Also I wish FOX dvds didn't have that annoying copyright crap at start of every disk in 24 languages. Only their more recent titles even have an option to skip it but I still take umbridge at even having to!

ixoy · 03-04-2005 10:06am

100% agree that there should be no trailers on purchased DVDs. Haven't (thankfully) come across it, but if I do I'd be mightily tempted to send a strongly -worded letter featuring the words "annoyed", "boycott", and the phrase "warn other people off this".

Pigman II · 03-04-2005 10:18am

I don't think I'd mind the trailers so much if they were just included as a 'special feature' on the main menu. It's when they pre-empt the movie everytime you stick the disk in that annoys me.

BlitzKrieg · 03-04-2005 4:01pm

i remember some early disney dvds wouldnt allow you to skip the trailers...i think its to make sure your kids whine about getting the hunchbakc of notre dame 2 or something...

samo · 03-04-2005 6:54pm

This has been posted before but the absolute example is Shrek 2 as is it IMPOSSIBLE to skip past the opening trailers for Shark Tale * me shudders* and Madagascar.

Bad if you've got impatient kiddies and you hate Shark Tale. Seems to be a bad trait of 'family' dvd's alright

Karl Hungus · 03-04-2005 6:59pm

Pigman II wrote:

I don't think I'd mind the trailers so much if they were just included as a 'special feature' on the main menu. It's when they pre-empt the movie everytime you stick the disk in that annoys me.

I concur with this sentiment 100%

BlitzKrieg · 03-04-2005 7:17pm

thats what alot of tartan cinema films and anime series dvds do as far as i know...but i guess the assumption for western blockbuster or family films is that we dont have the intelligence to look in the special features.

the worse offender is disney they actually advertise what is on the second dvd or the first depending which one you put in. Makes you feel like a real idiot.

Karl Hungus · 03-04-2005 7:52pm

Jesus... that's bad!

Although the worst offender was the Confession of a Dangerous Mind DVD, because that was the last film I would've thought to have trailers forced down my throat upon sticking it on.

Mind you, I do like to watch trailers, but when I'm subjected to them, it's another story altogether.

billy the squid · 04-04-2005 4:05am

I bought Intermission last week. and there were damn trailers for other irish films at the start of it. but that wasnt the worst of it.

I bought The Day after Tomorrow last week and Master and Commander this week. there is a there is a trailer there is a trailer for the first film on movie number two and a trailer for the second film on movie number one. both of these were FOX home entertainment disks.

solo1 · 04-04-2005 7:37pm

Can't you just zip past them? I don't like them either, but it takes about four seconds to "next chapter" them.

Karl Hungus · 04-04-2005 7:39pm

Often times not, solo1... That's the main problem.

billy the squid · 05-04-2005 1:54am

solo1 wrote:

Can't you just zip past them? I don't like them either, but it takes about four seconds to "next chapter" them.

alot of the times they are part of the DVD intro, you know the vancy moving menus

MisterAnarchy · 05-04-2005 2:14am

The worst thing now is that the Piracy warnings etc are now just before the main feature instead of at the start of the disc.
Its a real pain in the ass having to watch these warnings.
Most of the DVD's with trailers on them seem to be plugging crap films.

billy the squid · 05-04-2005 7:57am

the most annoying thing about the piracy warnings is that they are in 42 different languages

i wonder if some of those languages are even spoken in the Region 2 of the DVD regions.

Metacortex · 05-04-2005 10:19am

Anytime i've come across trailers i've been able to skip past them, so they don't bother me that much

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