Posted by Thomas G. Marshall on 07/26/07 12:16

Spurious Response said something like:
> On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:10:28 -0500, "John Carrier" <jxc2@comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> "Thomas G. Marshall"
>> <tgm2tothe10thpower@replacetextwithnumber.hotmail.com>
>> wrote in message news:oHQpi.4706$Gs4.1905@trndny05...
>>>
>>> I need an inexpensive dvd player.
>>>
>>> But I'm also sick to death of dvd players telling me that I cannot go to
>>> the main menu whenever I want.
>>>
>>> *Are there any dvd players which have this capability* ?
>>>
>>> Example: I like to bypass all the crap at the beginning of dvd's, and
>>> even
>>> the "fast play" options have some of this dreck. So to start all dvd's
>>> I
>>> always go to scene selection first thing, and then choose scene 1.
>>> Works,
>>> but it can be problematic: The DVD player I had (as well as my current
>>> $32
>>> memorex cheapy) complain about the stuff at the beginning being
>>> interrupted sometimes. I get that no-can-do icon of a circle with a
>>> slash
>>> through it /sometimes/ when I try to hit stop, and often when I hit the
>>> main menu button mid play.
>>>
>>> It should be possible to override this, and have the stop and menu
>>> buttons
>>> immediately obeyed no? Or does the dvd itself come with some sort of
>>> programming that is obeyed by the dvd players that prevents this?
>>
>> Yep, its the DVD itself that prevents you from the full viewing of the
>> FBI
>> warning and similar garbage before it will allow navigation to the menu.
>> I
>> doubt most players have the ability to override this function.
>>
>> R / John
>>
>
>
> Such a unit cannot even be legally marketed with the DVD logo on it.
>
> I am quite sure that someone would be able to hack the firmware to
> ignore the flags included on each title, however.
>
> To skip the FBI warning, which appears when one presses "Play" on most
> titles (some titles, it is the first thing up, and cannot be skipped),
> all one needs to do is to use the "scene selection" sub menu and select
> the first scene. It jumps right into the movie.

Yep, I pointed out that this is what I do. HOWEVER, there is a goofy thing
where on both DVD players, when I insert the disk it starts it's auto-play
or whatever, and even after its loaded up there is no obeying of the "stop"
or "menu" keys. At least sporatically.....I haven't yet fault-isolated this
properly to determine just what causes what, other than to say that all of
this causes me grief :)



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