Posted by SpammersDie on 12/17/05 04:32

>5. DVD in control: Man, does it piss me off when I cant bypass a warning or
>something. It's my player and my DVD, so why cant I skip the fucking FBI
>warning?

And don't forget that despite the fact that DVD's contain region codes
precisely to prevent them being played in more than one locale, you are
forced to sit through the same unskippable warning in English, French,
German, Swahili, Eskimo and Huttese every fucking time the disk is inserted.

And of course, if you have the foresight to preload the disk and let it get
through its pre-menu spiel while you pat down the couch, turn out the
lights, empty the piss-tank, get the popcorn out of the microwave, take the
phone off the hook, put up the "no salesman" sign and activate the sunken
colony under your front doormat...

....you come back to find out the insidious DVD creators foresaw what you
would do and programmed the DVD so it would autostart the movie without you.

The legalistic bludgeoning aside, somebody needs to take the whole lot of
DVD menu designers, tie them up and hit them over the head until they learn
a simple principle: The purpose of a menu is to get to the feature I want.
Not to waste my time with flying text, silly animations, movie spoilers,
repetitive soundtracks.

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