Unskippable screens on dvds!

I can skip the "you wouldn't steal a car" advert on some of my Family Guy DVRAB.

I have found that on Universal DVRAB, like Knocked Up and The 40 Year Old Virgin, however, that you cannot skip it.

Although there is a good side to it - gives me time to get a drink and such!
 
Along these same lines I use VLC mediaplayer on my PC, and when you load a DVD to watch it goes straight to the DVD's menu screen and misses out all the bumph.
 
My personal hate is the select country menu that comes up first. Many a time have I bunged the disc in, gone for a piss hoping that all the anti piracy bollocks has finished by the time I get back only to see a screen full of country options. Well, aside from the fact that I bought the bloody thing in the UK and I expect it not to start playing in Swedish but like an idiot I went right through the list, page after page to select UK. I know, I know, just select Australia!!!
 
I assume that the disc is pressed for all regions where it will play and despite being labelled Region 2 on the box is probably coded for other regions as well. Australia use PAL so a UK produced disc will play there, subject to Regional coding.

Countries tend to be listed in alphabetical order. I suspect that if you press for a non-English speaking country you will get a menu in that language with soundtrack/subtitles automatically selected for that language.
 
Paramount are quite famous for doing the "Select Language" thing. Surely if you set the language on your DVD player to English it will select English on the DVD without you having to do anything? Universal DVD's seem to be doing this more these days too. Ugh! It's such an arse-about-face operation, seriously!
 
XBMC (Xbox Media Center... but also available for Mac, Linux and PC)

Has a "skip intros" option... fantastic!

Disc in, play movie.

A lot of the cheapo DVD players (such as region free models) allow skipping, but the big branRAB always toe the line and put the mockers on skipping or fast forwarding. (Largely because they're in the same business as the filmmakers)

I can put up with nice film company logos (always love 20th Century, Warner Bros and Universal), but the anti-piracy crap is beyond a joke.

No-one pirates DVRAB FROM DVRAB any more. Why buy a crappy pirate when the pristine DVD only costs a tenner or less??

It's a damnable situation.
 
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