DVD Rant

ShooterSF

Ok first off I know it's a rant and I'm used to after hours level of responses but had to get it off my chest.
Rented out Charlie Wilson's War (Not bad but not the point) as I've seen most new films out. Microwaved up some nice kelkin butter popcorn and filled a stolen pint glass with coke and a few ice cubes. Popped the disc into my 360 flicked on the big screen and sat into my cozy chair.
The disc loads, all going well so far, then I selected english on the language menu and everything went tits up. 3 FCUKIN minutes of some ranting HIV poem with the obligatory video of Africans because the disease is limited to Africa. Not interested. Just want to switch off and watch a film. But hey, relax just fastforward to the movie. So I try fast forward, oops disabled. Hmm next chapter, no can do. Ok title menu, Sorry "all you base belong to us".

Pissed me off so much when it did EVENTUALLY get passed it I took 5 minutes to relax enough to be able to enjoy the movie. Why the hell cant they just add the ability to skip it if I'm not interested. As much as a wonderful job UNICEF do it's things like this that would turn me against them. If I had bought the film it would have went straight back to the store and I would have downloaded a nice add free copy for nothing.

Apologies for ranting but it's rather annoying.

Roadend

Bring back the video

SV

It is a load of bollocks isn't it.

The only disadvantage dvds have compared to tapes.

c - 13

I like to watch downloaded films with the piracy advert still on them ... makes me feel dirty

Dinter

I hate that.

Paying to watch ads. Oh I can feel that bubbling red mist rising.

funk-you

Next time it happens, stick your finger in your eye really hard. When the pain subsides, the film will be on.

-Funk

Ruu_Old

At least have some nudey wimmen telling you about UNICEF while jumping up and down or something, thank you!

Wertz

That's why I just d/l everything. This obligatory advertising, anti-piracy bullsh*t and list of regulations you can't skip through is eating into my enjoyment time, which I would have just paid to view, either through rental or purchase...so I avoid all that by illegal rips.

chin_grin

funk-you wrote: »

Next time it happens, stick your finger in your eye really hard. When the pain subsides, the film will be on.

-Funk

Or, stick the film on and then make the popcorn. By the time you're done the menu should be up.

ScumLord

You should have discussions with your nearest pirate. They bring dvds from far off lands with no such restrictions.Pirates can be found at shipping docks your local whore house

AnonoBoy

ShooterSF wrote: »

Pissed me off so much when it did EVENTUALLY get passed it I took 5 minutes to relax enough to be able to enjoy the movie.

Took you 5 minutes to calm down after a mild annoyance? Jaysus imagine what would happen to you if your car got clamped or something actually annoying happened to you?

How's your blood pressure bub? You should probably get it checked out sometime soon before you drop dead.

biko

Watching children starving make me happier behind my Dr Pepper and my big bowl of buttered popcorn. "Honey, bring the aerosol cheese" I yell out to the kitchen.

Dinter

My folks were watching a dvd when I came in. Anyway that anti piracy ad was on about stealing handbags, cars, etc. Then the bit pops up about "stealing" films. My mum (bit old) wants to know how the girl's getting a film off the internet so I showed her on the laptop.

She is now capable of keeping up to date with tv shows she likes without having to bother with a tv schedule.

Those piracy ads are great.

c - 13

Dinter wrote: »

Those piracy ads are great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTbX1aMajow

chin_grin

Dinter wrote: »

My folks were watching a dvd when I came in. Anyway that anti piracy ad was on about stealing handbags, cars, etc. Then the bit pops up about "stealing" films. My mum (bit old) wants to know how the girl's getting a film off the internet so I showed her on the laptop.

She is now capable of keeping up to date with tv shows she likes without having to bother with a tv schedule.

Those piracy ads are great.

"......the cirrrrrrrrrrcle........the cirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrcle of liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiife.............."

Ruu_Old

c - 13 wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTbX1aMajow

I can't find it but the one from the early 90s where the chap goes to return the video at the market. "Must be ya trackin' mate!"

listermint

Simple and effect resolution to your problem.

As most dvd's have disabled the "skip" or "next" option for the pre film ads. All of them still have the fast forward option.

So if you have a fast forward button on your player Presto!! it fast forwards all the way to the disk menu

YAY :D

c - 13

Ruu wrote: »

I can't find it but the one from the early 90s where the chap goes to return the video at the market. "Must be ya trackin' mate!"

Funny you should mention that, I was sitting in a food court place over here recently and that ad came on the TV's. I hadnt seen it in years.

Looking for that one just there and came across this one instead. Pretty good -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccupsLU26Fw

ShooterSF

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Took you 5 minutes to calm down after a mild annoyance? Jaysus imagine what would happen to you if your car got clamped or something actually annoying happened to you?

How's your blood pressure bub? You should probably get it checked out sometime soon before you drop dead.

Wow yeah pretty calm usually but when I go I do explode Feck if my car got clamped I'd completely loose it!

As for the other comments, yea think ill go with dvd rips from now on. Will bring the film straight back first though

Turd Ferguson

It doesnt make sense though, why put anti-piracy ads on DVD's people have paid for. The only ones that dont have those ads are pirated ones.

Yarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr it makes me so angry I could scrape the scurvy off a lady of the night.

Heisenberg.

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SheroN

The Scientist wrote: »

lol,
"They you ah daalin, 4 weddins"

Oral contract mate, not worth the paper it's written on.

AnonoBoy

That's your trackin' mate. Trackin's touchy!

No trains in it either - suppose that's my fault an' all!

dublinario

I find that the best way to avoid the anti-piracy messages on DVDs is to exclusively buy pirate DVDs. Thankfully, pirate DVDs don't bother with pro-piracy messages. I guess they figure you're already on board, and don't need selling on the concept.

I love that DVD ad that bangs on about "you wouldn't rob a car would you? You wouldn't rob a handbag, would you?" Well, I didn't rob those things before. But since the Ad enlightened me that there isn't anything logically different between DVD piracy and these other roguish past-times, I've started to dabble. Handbags are a doddle, in particular.

thelordofcheese

My favourite ones are the ones the show in the cinema before a film starts where someone, usually from pixars latest overhyped film, is watching a pirated film and it's a hideous quality copy.
Apparently, all pirates are using 30 year old VHS equipment to make their products.

Look, guys, you have a case for people not stealing your shit, but come on. Don't be retarded.

dr.bollocko

Not surprised mate. It's all in scotch innit?

pablomakaveli

I hate those anti-piracy ads. i dint understand why they are preaching to people who actually bought the DVD.

and anyone who is illegally downloading films isnt going to change their mind after watching that ad.

can you really imagine someone watching those ads and then saying " that ad is right, im hurting the people in the film industry by illegally downloading films. ill never download another film again". Me arse.

antodeco

Im sorry OP, Im lost.

Did you give your DVD Aids or something? :pac:

BaconZombie

I went to watch "30 Days of Night" and it has ~20mins of prom's and other crap at the start that can not be skipped.

I have access to a HD XVid rip but bought it in the HMV sale because at ~15€ I thought that was a "ok" price for the collectors edition. But fecking ~20mins of crap you can't skip, all I can say it WTF!?!?!?

Red Alert

Another case in point of how doing things the legal way is actually more frustrating and inefficient...

Many players actually can disable the prohibition on fast forward, usually with an obscure key code or setup menu. It's called UOP, or disabling UOPs.

Damien King

c - 13 wrote: »

I like to watch downloaded films with the piracy advert still on them ... makes me feel dirty

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAr7zKxjCDY

I nearly wet myself when i saw this on the telly

fitz0

Wertz wrote: »

That's why I just d/l everything. This obligatory advertising, anti-piracy bullsh*t and list of regulations you can't skip through is eating into my enjoyment time, which I would have just paid to view, either through rental or purchase...so I avoid all that by illegal rips.

yep I hate the way they punish people who legitimately buy a DVD by putting that crap on it while thouse (us) illegal downloaders get it preachy ad free! irony

AntiRip

BOFH_139 wrote: »

I went to watch "30 Days of Night" and it has ~20mins of prom's and other crap at the start that can not be skipped.

I have access to a HD XVid rip but bought it in the HMV sale because at ~15€ I thought that was a "ok" price for the collectors edition. But fecking ~20mins of crap you can't skip, all I can say it WTF!?!?!?

Thats why I've used AG Knot to encode all my DVD collection to avi files and put them on my ext hard drive over the home network, no ads, no bullsh1t. What they don't realise is that they're making the situation worse by putting all this crap on DVD and charging e25 for it.

Overheal

with the oncoming recession i opted to go ahead and download the blu ray rip of Iron Man anyway, and as it turns out I got to watch it faster than most people who bought it - Paramount's servers crashed because of high bandwidth: the BRD of Iron Man when loaded into a pc automatically tries to contact the server to download extra content before you can watch the movie :rolleyes: so most people were stuck not knowing how to get around the holdup.

No special features but I think I won.

http://gizmodo.com/5059141/tony-starks-boozing-ways-bd+live-snafu-bring-down-paramount-servers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAr7zKxjCDY

AnonoBoy

How many times can people post the same video in the same thread?

Galvasean

c - 13 wrote: »

Looking for that one just there and came across this one instead. Pretty good -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccupsLU26Fw

That guy is the best salesman I have ever seen, I must hire him!

thefinalstage

Dinter wrote: »

I hate that.

Paying to watch ads. Oh I can feel that bubbling red mist rising.

Like RTE?

L1011

Red Alert wrote: »

Another case in point of how doing things the legal way is actually more frustrating and inefficient...

Many players actually can disable the prohibition on fast forward, usually with an obscure key code or setup menu. It's called UOP, or disabling UOPs.

Dunnes Stores DVD player, multi-region and lets you skip ANYTHING, €36 quid after clubcard rebate a few weeks ago.

Also, my 'posh' player/recorder/VCR all-in-one I have from yonks back, a JVC DV-Msomethingorother came from the factory able to skip everything too.

Galvasean

MYOB wrote: »

Dunnes Stores DVD player, multi-region and lets you skip ANYTHING, €36 quid after clubcard rebate a few weeks ago.
.

how much without rebate? ive been meaning to get a multi-regional.

L1011

Galvasean wrote: »

how much without rebate? ive been meaning to get a multi-regional.

I think the rebate was 10%, so €40.

DonkeyStyle \o/

Red Alert wrote: »

It's called UOP, or disabling UOPs.

I came across the phrase "prohibited user operations" a few weeks ago.
Delightful eh?

I'm pretty sure they've lost the whole "pirated versions are inferior quality" argument at this stage... if anything, retail versions are inferior because of this shíte... epic own goal there.