Posted by Niall Leonard on 11/03/05 17:34

On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 17:09:02 -0000, "Tumbleweed"
<thisaccountneverread@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>"Lee@DVDDebate" <lee@nospamw2designs.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:i2nhm1949nctv41vtoc3pg5faji424ak7c@4ax.com...
>> On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 16:54:23 +0000, Tân Coul
>> <penguin@spam.dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
>>
>>>>You know the funny part in this whole thing is that the prices of dvd
>>>>titles have fallen so much so fast (and I am talking about new and used
>>>>quality titles and not El Cheapo Crapo titles) and that good quality
>>>>dvd recorders have dropped so much it is now literally not worth it
>>>>99.8% of the time to steal it!
>>>
>>>No, the really funny part is that the only people who have to sit
>>>through the endless anti-piracy ads on dvds (Angel Season 5, I'm
>>>talking to you...) are those of us who actually buy them -
>>>pirated/copied copies would either rip them out or at least make them
>>>skippable.
>>
>> Yes, that is the ultimate irony of the whole FBI warning fiasco. Those
>> of us who pay for our DVDs have to sit and suffer while those who
>> don't get to watch them straight away.
>
>Not only that, they now misuse the dont skip feature on DVDs for adverts,not
>just the piracy warnings. I found the adverts you couldnt skip past on
>Shrek2 so annoying I reburned it minus those.

What annoys me in the cinema ads is that voiceover saying "pirate
videos are illegal" as if that was going to make people who watch
pirate videos break down weeping and hand themselves in at the nearest
nick.

What it ought to say is "pirate videos are shit" because the picture
and the sound are, 99% of the time, shit.

I dumped my VHS and bought a dvd player and a DTS system because I
want high-quality picture and sound. I am not going to pay £3 to play
back a shit copy with shit mono filmed off the shitty soft screen of a
local fleapit. That's the best way to ruin a good movie and to make
a bad one even worse.

nl

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