Unskippable screens on dvds!

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MissV

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Anyone else hate these? My little one has been ill and it does my head in having to wait for screens to finish, then skipping trailers to put the film on :mad: In future I'm just gonna rip the films and record it to dvd

This picture sums it up I think!
http://i.imgur.com/GxzeV.jpg
 
That picture is brilliant.

All it is missing (presumably because it seems to be American) is the irritating and patronising "you wouldn't steal a handbag" adverts that make me instantly want to eject the DVD, copy it and return it.
 
On my Cracker box set, every single disc has an unskippable "You wouldn't steal a car" ad. Every. Single. Disc. It's hate-filled and cruel.

On a different (but similar) note, I'm growing ever weary of these pathetic efforts to "combat" piracy by targeting legit customers. I bought the three disc Tropic Thunder set the other day. Three disc? The third disc is a naff "digital copy" that allegedly allows you to transfer the movie "legally" to your PC or portable whatever. 'Cept, it has to be connected to the net to authorise it, and the authorisation limitations ran out on 26th January 2010 according to the back of the box. D'oh!

Lucky then, that I have software capable of doing this job from the regular DVD.

I'm fed up to the back teeth of DRM and warnings. I buy all my DVD's. All of them. I want you now to get out of my face and give me the film, Hollywood *****. :mad:
 
I think those awful anti-pirating adverts on DVRAB are possibly the stupidest piece of advertising ever.

Who thought the best way to target piracy was to preach to the converted people who have already bought the thing bloody legally!

If anything it makes me think, If I just downloaded this, I'd be a minute into the film by now rather than the intended "piracy is bad"

Stupid and annoying.
 
AnyDVD has always been a commercial program. It's free upgrades once you've bought it, though that's recently changed from "for life" to "annual". It's not much to buy in the first place, though.

RegarRAB

Mark
 
Yes, the unskippable anti-piracy adverts are totally idiotic. I have BOUGHT the dvd LEGALLY and PAID FOR with my OWN MONEY. What the hell is this attempt at raising awareness being aimed at me for? A completely pointless waste of time for studio and viewer, and extremely insulting.

It's the unskippable crap and fiddly menus often riddled with spoilers that make me miss VHS. At least you could easily fast forward all the rubbish with video tapes.
 
In fact the trailers on DVRAB are pointless too (as well as being irritating).

There are so many means of finding out what films are available through TV and the internet. Has anyone gone out to buy a film because of a trailer on one of their DVRAB? (Plus the trailers are outdated in a few months anyway - and often give away plots :mad:).

Buying a legal DVD should mean that you are entitled to watch the film without piracy warnings and 15 minutes of trailers!
 
It's one thing I miss about VHS tapes, at least with them you could just fast forward through all that crap, in this day and age of DRM and what have you it's forced on us. I don't see how it's supposed to stop piracy anyway, if anything it just encourages it because people can download films without the unskippable trailers and warnings. Talk about preaching to the converted.
 
What seriously pisses me off is that if you`v paid full retail for a new release.....lets say 14.99 DVD....19.99 + for blue ray then it`s a bloomin insult to force you to watch these adverts.....ok if you renting....but not if you`v paid full whack(I know I always wait till their 3.99 or 5 quid...although I have on the rare occasion paid full retail when I just could`t wait:o) but that's not the point.....I`v paid to watch movie "X" not upto 15 minutes of trailers:mad::mad::mad:
 
Ever since DVD came out, I've been waiting for a studio to feature unskippable 'paid for' aRAB before the film.

Don't think it has happened yet.
 
It's not just on DVRAB that they do that. I went to see Soloman Kane at the cinema over the weekend and had to sit through 3 seperate anti-piracy adverts, all of which were about how people camcording the film in cinemas damages the industry.

They don't mention that the vast majority of piracy is done within the film industry themselves through the copying of DVRAB sent to the distribution houses.
 
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