Trailers and ads on DVDs • Non-Gaming • Film • Eurogamer.net

Deleted user 22 November 2005 19:53:31

minky just sat down to watch Revenge of the Nerds (don't ask), and had to sit through five minutes of unskippable, un-fast-forwardable trailers and ads. What the fuck is that all about? This isn't a rental disc, this is a retail DVD that has been paid for, so why in the hell should anybody have to sit through that? Scummers.

Deleted user 22 November 2005 19:57:39

This is being played with XBMC (the DVD player that's bundled with it is pretty good these days), so I'm surprised we couldn't get past it. It's a Fox movie afaik. "Menu" or "Root menu" didn't have any effect.

Edited by mouse at 20:07:51 22-11-2005

martyngates 22 Nov 2005 19:58:02 1,752 posts
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after months of watching avi's on my pc i sat down to watch a few family guy dvds the other night and was amazed how long it took to actuallly watch anything

put in dvd -> watch copyright -> watch fox logo -> watch dvd intro -> select episode -> finally play episode

in used to, double click -> play, but yeah unscipable trailers seem to be creeping in a lot more

Boundy 22 Nov 2005 20:44:24 959 posts
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I know its shirt really and I can't stand it, I mean If I have piad for it I don;t want any shitty adds as its mine and as if I am not advertised enough to already?

unwashed 22 Nov 2005 21:01:44 1,857 posts
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The trend that I've noticed is that the unskippable trailers tend to be on the single disc editions of films (yes I'm looking at you X-Men 2) but being honest I haven't bought a dvd in a while so I'm not a good source of info...

Deleted user 22 November 2005 21:06:25

All Warner Bros and Disney DVDs can be skipped straight to menu, and are generally considered the Good Guys of DVDs. Warner in fact was the first one to start pricing DVDs at the more reasonable 12.99 for a new release. Good that they gave up on the rubbish cardboard cases after a while though. Universal seem to be somewhat twattish with warnings and copyrights, but usually no trailers. Fox DVDs are utter shit though, usually two or so unskippable trailers and a few warning blurbs.

Freek 22 Nov 2005 21:09:32 7,682 posts
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Boggels the mind, doesn't it? Hmm pircay is a real issue, lets punish the people who still buy our DVDs legally. That's a really good idea and will increase sales!!!

Edited by Freek at 21:19:38 22-11-2005

unwashed 22 Nov 2005 21:39:00 1,857 posts
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Just remembered the single disc Shrek2 is a right twat, it's got a five-ten minute promo for Madagascar which you can only fast forward through. There is absolutely no need! And it's lost them two tickets at the cinema, and a possible DVD purchase. Bah!

Whizzo 22 Nov 2005 22:12:45 44,810 posts
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I use the "title" button when I get unskippable stuff, usually hitting title 1 or 2 will get you to the start of the movie or at least the menu.

TR421 22 Nov 2005 23:08:18 380 posts
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It's like the old days of VHS, you can still fast foward though.
I can understand why they put trailers on, but they shouldn't be unskipable.

Edited by TR421 at 23:18:55 22-11-2005

terminalterror 23 Nov 2005 00:10:34 18,932 posts
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If they put the trailers on as 'extra features' some people who would skip through them to get to the film might actually watch them. I sometimes do.

Deleted user 23 November 2005 00:14:11

This is EXACTLY the reason i hate the DVD format. I hate it sooo much.

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Furbs 14 Jun 2007 22:45:51 45,740 posts
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Is it by Buena Vista? They are bastards for it.

DVD Shrink has a nice little function that will re-enable the chapter skip for those bits, but its only going to be effective if you are copying. And I wouldnt condone that. Especially Revenge of the Nerds.