Posted by SpammersDie on 12/26/05 22:36

<toebender@none.com> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 20:09:54 GMT, Howard Brazee <howard@brazee.net>
> wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 02:57:53 -0600, toebender@none.com wrote:
>>
>>I agree with all of your wants (for simple playing of movies) except:
>>
>>>I dont care to see behind the scenes and all that other junk they put
>>>... on a DVD
>>
>>I do - just make me press MENU to get to the menu - otherwise play the
>>movie.
>
> I'd be happy with this. I would unlikely use the menu, but as long as
> the movie plays when I insert the disk, that's fine with me.

Actually, Autoplay is another feature I hate dating all the way back to the
VCR. Immediately playing the movie is NEVER the action I want. I want the
time to get back to the couch, get comfortable, turn out the lights, get the
popcorn out, make sure the anti-salesman howitzer is activated and
everything else, and *then* start the movie. And I don't want to have to
race my own DVD player to get those done. And the spin-up time to initialize
a new DVD is psychologically long enough that I usually do that in advance
anyway.

I want the default action on a DVD to WAIT FOR MY COMMAND to do anything,
including starting the movie. Don't do anything else (a little screen motion
to avoid image burn-in is acceptable though I think most DVD players already
have screensavers.)

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