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It's been at least 15 years since I've touched a DVD, but I recall the menu system to be the worst feature of it. I've never once wanted anything but the main f

It's been at least 15 years since I've touched a DVD, but I recall the menu system to be the worst feature of it. I've never once wanted anything but the main feature. Also may the product people who decided on "unskippable scenes" go to a purgatory where they're surrounded by nothing but copyright notices for eternity.

Moru 4y ago
I use VLC for the very few movies I watch so can't say if it works on all movies. Most of the time you can just select "No disc menus" and it goes directly to the movie. Then you can select language and subs as you want in the normal windows style menus in VLC.
- midoridensha 4y ago
  I'm surprised someone hasn't threatened to sue them for allowing people to skip unskippable items.
  - Moru 4y ago
    Since I bought the DVD, it's mine to do whatever I want to be able to see the movie. If I decide not to watch the adverticement, there isn't something they can do about it.
    - midoridensha 4y ago
      Good luck arguing that in court, no matter how correct you are. Lawyers cost a lot of money. Still, no one's going to sue you personally for this. However, there have been cases of legal action against those who make "hacking tools" available. I believe there was a case against Apex for their cheap DVD players that ignored region codes, for instance. Anyway, the keyword here is "threatened". Corporate lawyers make all kinds of baseless legal threats all the time. It should be illegal.
  - account42 4y ago
    Since the creators of VLC are also the maintainers of libdvdcss I don't think getting sued over letting people skip unwanted content is their primary concern. They seem to be doing alright legally - probably helps to not be US-based.
ncpa-cpl 4y ago
> Also may the product people who decided on "unskippable scenes" go to a purgatory where they're surrounded by nothing but copyright notices for eternity. The first time I used Netflix about a decade ago I was surprised how fast play worked. Now that you mention that, I was coming from a world of DVD menus and unskippable notices. So the Netflix UX was a great improvement.
jollyllama 4y ago
Purgatory usually has a temporary connotation, eternity would imply hell.
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 4y ago
  Tangentially related: the 1999 movie Purgatory [0] is actually pretty good. [0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0158131/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0158131/
- zbrozek 4y ago
  Whoops, my bad. I'll be sure to get my condemnation right next time I find a class of deserving product-folk.

Moru 4y ago

I use VLC for the very few movies I watch so can't say if it works on all movies. Most of the time you can just select "No disc menus" and it goes directly to the movie. Then you can select language and subs as you want in the normal windows style menus in VLC.

midoridensha 4y ago
I'm surprised someone hasn't threatened to sue them for allowing people to skip unskippable items.
- Moru 4y ago
  Since I bought the DVD, it's mine to do whatever I want to be able to see the movie. If I decide not to watch the adverticement, there isn't something they can do about it.
  - midoridensha 4y ago
    Good luck arguing that in court, no matter how correct you are. Lawyers cost a lot of money. Still, no one's going to sue you personally for this. However, there have been cases of legal action against those who make "hacking tools" available. I believe there was a case against Apex for their cheap DVD players that ignored region codes, for instance. Anyway, the keyword here is "threatened". Corporate lawyers make all kinds of baseless legal threats all the time. It should be illegal.
- account42 4y ago
  Since the creators of VLC are also the maintainers of libdvdcss I don't think getting sued over letting people skip unwanted content is their primary concern. They seem to be doing alright legally - probably helps to not be US-based.

ncpa-cpl 4y ago

> Also may the product people who decided on "unskippable scenes" go to a purgatory where they're surrounded by nothing but copyright notices for eternity. The first time I used Netflix about a decade ago I was surprised how fast play worked. Now that you mention that, I was coming from a world of DVD menus and unskippable notices. So the Netflix UX was a great improvement.

jollyllama 4y ago

Purgatory usually has a temporary connotation, eternity would imply hell.

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 4y ago
Tangentially related: the 1999 movie Purgatory [0] is actually pretty good. [0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0158131/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0158131/
zbrozek 4y ago
Whoops, my bad. I'll be sure to get my condemnation right next time I find a class of deserving product-folk.