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Posted by Thomas G. Marshall on 07/27/07 03:06
"mykey" <mykeymykey01@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1185501280.241183.197620@r34g2000hsd.googlegroups.com...
> 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.
In my original post I conjectured as much, but as a software engineer I
still see no reason that the hardware couldn't always honor stop and menu,
aside from willful licensing constraints, REGARDLESS of what instructions it
is "executing" off the dvd.
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