Posted by Ed Chilada on 07/16/06 15:54

On Sun, 16 Jul 2006 16:44:18 +0100, Martyn Drake <usenet@drake.org.uk>
wrote:

>On 2006-07-11 20:16:10 +0100, Ed Chilada <nospam@nospam.com> said:
>
>> Last weekend I went to watch Pirates of the Carribean. They put an
>> anti-piracy trailer on, showing bits of Superman Returns which then
>> scaled down, washed out and went muffled as they tried to show what a
>> ripped off copy would look like and how much poorer it is. "Come to
>> the cinema for the real experience", they said.
>
>Universal DVDs have that annoying FACT informercial which you can only
>fast forward (and not skip), unlike other studios which see sense and
>allow to either go directly to the menu or completely skip that bloody
>annoying, pointless FACT message.
>
>Some titles I've seen force you into pressing fast forward continously
>sitting through a load of adverts for other titles - you can't go
>directly to the film or menu system.
>
>User prohibitions should be banned.

Better still, a player hack that ignores them and always lets you FF.

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