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Wait there was unskippable content on DVD/Bluray?? What nonsense is that. That makes no sense at all.

mi_z 3y ago
The person is acting like it's several minutes. It's maybe 20 seconds at most. A studio logo or some piracy warning. You can buy Blu Ray players that let you skip it though. Much worse is minutes of ads throughout what you watch.
- dathinab 3y ago
  it's still not okay on a bluray you bought the thing, you should be able to use it however you want and putting ads into a bluray you already bought for a probably not so small price is ridiculous And if you skip some epilepsy warning then that is your responsibility, same with when you pirated it and get caught. Also why force me to see anti-piracy propaganda (and that's what it is, nothing else, sometime also legally misinforming) when I already DIDN'T pirate it or a logo I already know from the packaging of the bluray (because if I did pirate it I already would have skipped it). it's just a ridiculous dictation of behavior in context of a bought physical product
- ykonstant 3y ago
  A studio logo and some piracy warning and ads for other movies and opening animations and...
cheschire 3y ago
The worst part of it was when it was time-based advertising content. We were forced to watch commercials for "coming soon" content that was going through a marketing cycle but often turned out to be garbage. So before you even get to the launch menu for this specific movie you selected, you're subjected to a trailer for a 20 year old movie with a 24% on rotten tomatoes. And an advertisement for a pizza restaurant. And a threat that the film company is going to take all their movies and put them in a vault for 10 years so you really need to go buy more DVDs from them.
wccrawford 3y ago
Even allowing for exaggeration, some DVDs had a horrifying amount of non-skippable content. For example: https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/nx3o1/since_when_did_unskippable_dvd_previews_become/ https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/nx3o1/since_when_di... But at the minimum, the piracy notices are 20 seconds long now. For an item you paid for instead of pirating. https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/05/10/2238258/dvds-blu-rays-to-show-20-second-unskippable-govt-warnings https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/05/10/2238258/dvds-blu-ray...

mi_z 3y ago

The person is acting like it's several minutes. It's maybe 20 seconds at most. A studio logo or some piracy warning. You can buy Blu Ray players that let you skip it though. Much worse is minutes of ads throughout what you watch.

dathinab 3y ago
it's still not okay on a bluray you bought the thing, you should be able to use it however you want and putting ads into a bluray you already bought for a probably not so small price is ridiculous And if you skip some epilepsy warning then that is your responsibility, same with when you pirated it and get caught. Also why force me to see anti-piracy propaganda (and that's what it is, nothing else, sometime also legally misinforming) when I already DIDN'T pirate it or a logo I already know from the packaging of the bluray (because if I did pirate it I already would have skipped it). it's just a ridiculous dictation of behavior in context of a bought physical product
ykonstant 3y ago
A studio logo and some piracy warning and ads for other movies and opening animations and...

cheschire 3y ago

The worst part of it was when it was time-based advertising content. We were forced to watch commercials for "coming soon" content that was going through a marketing cycle but often turned out to be garbage. So before you even get to the launch menu for this specific movie you selected, you're subjected to a trailer for a 20 year old movie with a 24% on rotten tomatoes. And an advertisement for a pizza restaurant. And a threat that the film company is going to take all their movies and put them in a vault for 10 years so you really need to go buy more DVDs from them.

wccrawford 3y ago

Even allowing for exaggeration, some DVDs had a horrifying amount of non-skippable content. For example: https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/nx3o1/since_when_did_unskippable_dvd_previews_become/ https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/nx3o1/since_when_di... But at the minimum, the piracy notices are 20 seconds long now. For an item you paid for instead of pirating. https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/05/10/2238258/dvds-blu-rays-to-show-20-second-unskippable-govt-warnings https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/05/10/2238258/dvds-blu-ray...