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| 15 FEB 2006 at 9:37am |
IviniaGuild Master
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Status : Offline | DVDs that FORCE you to look at ads/previews. When you click next or menu, you get a message that says, "Operation currently prohibited." >
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| 15 FEB 2006 at 10:20am |
ShanyGuild Master
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Status : Online | DVDs that have long and annoying transitions between the menus, so that if you simply want to select subtitles you have to watch an animation, and if you accidentally clicked on a menu, you have to endure that animation twice.
Another thing that annoyes me is when the menus are given special names to fit the movie, and you have to guess what each one does. This was particularly annyoing in the Lion King DVD, which had too many sections instead of just one for 'special features'.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban had the same problem, but at least it's only on the second 'speical features' DVD.
Also, I agree with Ivinia about the previews. Those should be restricted to rental DVDs only. It makes no sense to have to watch a trailer to a movie that is no longer showing and not be able to skip it. (you can fast forward it, but that works terribly on most DVDs).
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| 15 FEB 2006 at 2:29pm |
Chris.Schattenjger
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Joined: 8 MAR 2005
Status : Online | We seem to have avoided the previews so far. The only exception is Disney, but we already know how evil they are
Sometimes DVDs will spoil the movie in their stupid hour-long menu animations. I remember either Hannibal or Red Dragon did this, luckily I'd seen the movie before.
The 3rd Rock from the Sun DVDs won't let you press the "next" button to get to the next episode. You have to sit there and watch the credits at the end of each episode.
...not to be confused with Keira Knightley
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| 15 FEB 2006 at 3:38pm |
SkyeSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | Searching for the Easter Eggs only to find out that they don't mean anything to the general public and a purely inside jokes for the company employees. (The Incredibles had a number of these as I recall)
If there are going to be Easter Eggs on a DVD the should be worth trying to find.
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| 15 FEB 2006 at 3:42pm |
| Deleted User | Indeed the ones that open with trailers are extremely annoying. I bought a DVD because I wanted to watch that specific movie, not another one. At least have the decency to put trailers as menu extras instead of showing them automatically at the start! > If the release is intended for rental/casual viewing purposes I can live with it, but not when it's a "special edition" or "collector's edition" or "director's cut" version. Batman Begins spoiled a perfectly acceptable DVD release like that
Oh, and now some movie companies have started putting information movies at the beginning telling you that it's a crime to download movies. I mean, come on: I bought your DVD so I'm not stealing this movie and if I'm planning to rip and share the movie online then you can bet I don't care about your message in the first place. Pirates will not include the clip in their rip and chances are that you just annoyed them enough to make them share this DVD edition just to annoy you back.
The DVD case should not have comments by movie critics on top of the cover artwork if it's a collectible edition. If you already like the movie, you don't really need to know what the "experts" think, do you? :
Subtitles featuring a poor translation with lots of mistakes are also terrible, but it's not too often you see them fortunately...
Finally, those standard license texts in dozens of languages that on some DVDs show up every time you've watched a TV series episode, or even worse, before... Isn't there a way to author the DVD such that it shows only the information in your language? Maybe not (I can't think of a way from the little I know about DVD authoring) but how fun is it to be stuck while it shows the same text in nearly all national European languages as well as Arabic and Asian languages for two and a half minutes?
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| 15 FEB 2006 at 4:14pm |
Chris.Schattenjger
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Petter_Holmberg (15 FEB 2006 3:42pm)
Finally, those standard license texts in dozens of languages that on some DVDs show up every time you've watched a TV series episode, or even worse, before... Isn't there a way to author the DVD such that it shows only the information in your language? Maybe not (I can't think of a way from the little I know about DVD authoring) but how fun is it to be stuck while it shows the same text in nearly all national European languages as well as Arabic and Asian languages for two and a half minutes?
Futurama, right?
Well, I was going to copy that DVD, but I guess I'll stop now that you've told me it's illegal... : and in Estonian, no less...)
...not to be confused with Keira Knightley
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| 15 FEB 2006 at 6:21pm |
The Terror of the Wolf part 3Schattenjger
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Status : Online | The thing that annoys me most is when there's simply not enough chapters per show.
Let's take Red Dwarf, for instance. A 25 minute show, divided into 8 chapters. Good.
Stargate, season 1. A 45 minute show, with... 4 chapters. Not good.
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| 15 FEB 2006 at 7:19pm |
SirDaveGuild Master
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Joined: 17 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | In addition to those things mentioned above are situations where whoever did the authoring thought it was their job to make the whole selection fancy with all sorts of time-consuming animation to simply select the next episode or selection. Some of that occurs in some of the HBO series releases such as Oz! All you want is to easily make the selection and get there right away, not have to wait while all sorts of fancy things occur first.
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| 15 FEB 2006 at 10:47pm |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Location: AU
Status : Offline | I think you all watch far more DVDs than I do. I don't see the sense in running the trailer for the movie as an opening sequence - how daft is that? But I've noticed some American TV shows are like that. Take Lost and Desperate Housewives. The last thing they do is show us a snippet from next week and then the following week, they show us what happened last week. My kids get really ticked off with this.
We don't have ads on bought DVDs and they usually go straight into the movie without the warnings either.
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