Posted by Alpha on 09/26/42 11:42

The MPAA is floating a bill in congress that would make it illegal to skip
the prologue material. Everybody should understand
what the MPAA is about....total viewing control.
www.eff.org

"(PeteCresswell)" <x@y.Invalid> wrote in message
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> Just bought two DVDs: "Tootsie" and "Lost In Translation".
>
> Put "Tootsie" in the player and bingo! Exactly what I would expect: the
> movie's
> home menu comes up (after the obligatory stern warnings...).
>
> Put "Lost In Translation" in the player and.... geeze-Louise! After about
> five
> minutes of sitting through trailers and plain old advertisements I just
> gave up
> and fed the disc to DVD Shrink in order to capture the main movie for
> trouble-free viewing later.
>
> I read the fine print in both DVD containers. Couldn't identify anything
> that
> would warn me (didn't expect to find anything either...).
>
> Is there any way to spot something like "Lost In Translation" before
> buying?
> Review sites? Some sort of code?
> --
> PeteCresswell

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