Posted by mykey on 07/27/07 01:54

the majority of these problems you mention are
being loaded by the DVD itself, not in the player
to start with. Certain DVD disk manufacturers will
allow skipping the previews, etc...
some others will force you to watch the previews,
etc...before being allowed to see the movie.
DVD drives for PC allow a little more flexibility
since you have a choice of software and some allow
opening the menu at any time, even when the DVD is playing.
But the answer to the question "is there a player?" that bypasses
all this rubbish is "no".
the player obeys the instructions loaded by the disk when
the disk is booted. to eliminate that you gotta change the
instructions on the disk, movie vendors are not going to
do that since they want to force you to watch previews, etc...
but i can't blame you for being pissed at these features
i have often wished for the same thing you are talking about.

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