Unable to skip anti-piracy adverts on DVD
I don't know if this annoys anyone else, but when I buy a DVD I don't want to spend five minutes watching the anti-piracy advert or the film trailers and the company logos, some go on for ages and it wont let you skip them or fast forward.
At least with VHS video tapes you could fast forward through all this rubbish. When I buy a DVD, I buy it to watch the film I bought, not a load of annoying stuff that I am not remotely interested in.
Fair enough I suppose if you must stick an anti piracy message at the beginning, but please let us skip past it once we have seen it a few dozen times! The people who HAVE copied versions of the film probably won't see this message anyway.
Those of us who are honest enough to go out and BUY the DVD are FORCED to watch messages about not copying films every time we want to watch a movie!
message is clearly going out to the wrong audience
What's the point in making the majority of honest people suffer because the message is clearly going out to the wrong audience!
In fact, I've been told that many times "you wouldnt steal a car"..."you wouldnt steal a TV", that I find my self yelling at the TV "Yes I BLOODY WOULD!", just because I'm fed up with those darn smarmy adverts!
Aaaaarrrrgh!!!!
By: Monty & Smiffynotts
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I totally agree with all the negative comments. I find the ads overbearing,bossy and intrusive and counter productive, because it discourages me from buying a legal copy. It is especially annoying when you have bought a TV series and are subjected to the advert for every episode.
If anyone happens to travel to Germany, you can usually buy the DVD with an English soundtrack for less without the nagging prelude.
My non tech solution is this: put the DVD in your player with your TV switched off, wait for a few minutes until the DVD plays, press DVD menu and then switch the TV on.
If anyone happens to travel to Germany, you can usually buy the DVD with an English soundtrack for less without the nagging prelude.
My non tech solution is this: put the DVD in your player with your TV switched off, wait for a few minutes until the DVD plays, press DVD menu and then switch the TV on.
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I agree entirely and will only buy pirate copies from now on so the advert has had the opposite effect. I BOUGHT the damn thing and have to suffer the proselytising but if you buy pirate you don't.
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Just in from the Blue Boar. Right on Mr P we are on the same hymn sheet.
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Mr Perkins Is that the young man next to the Asian guy selling Chinese tools of similar quality? I know the one. The excitment of waiting weeks sometimes to see the end of a movie is great isn't it? & the money you save, I bought a pair of thicker glass's & a hearing aide with mine.
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I avoid this problem by only buying films from this lovely young man I know down the market, his films have no adverts or piracy warnings whatsoever, he even prints the covers for them himself, why only 2 days ago he sold me The Mechanic, True Grit, Yogi Bear, The Kings Speech, The Fighter and a copy of the film Mandingos Cock Puppets volume 2 for the sum of £5 the lot, hes great a lot of the time his films arent even available at the shops or the cinema well done to him, my Grandchildren were over the moon with Yogi Bear and after I watched the Mandingo film my wrist was aching for all the next day, its nice in this day and age bargains can still be found.
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Couldn't agree more. I suggest you do what I do: every time you're forced to sit through such an ad, spend the time emailing the relevant anti-piracy organisation associated with the advert. Of course the email won't make any difference, but at least you can derive some pleasure from knowing that the company in question have had to waste time reading the email, just as you have had to waste time watching their advert.
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If before this clip where you are asked to choose a language, you go to the last page there is a language there called Sqhip or something like that, it's the last option and I've found that it skips those particular "you wouldn't steal a car" messages.
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I completely agree and now will buy only pirate copies that don't have the forced messages
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I'm seeing this more and more. My wife just had the problem with 10 minutes of unskippable trailers on the new Sherlock Holmes movie from Netflix. When the Netflix DVD content that I rented will not play within a reasonable time (1 minute), I cut the disc in half and send it back as defective. When Netflix tries to charge me for destroying too many of their defective discs, that's when I'll walk away from their service.
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at least anti piracy messages are relevant, unskippable m'n'm adverts though??
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Oooarr's comments are exactly right, just make a copy and delete all the nonsense, why should a person who has spent money on an 'original' be subjected to an advert telling them not to buy a copy!!!!!, the copies don't have it.
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Scottie next time just do the rip before you watch the film. You know, the copy you keep for your collection before you give it back? Just edit all the rubbish out first when you burn a copy.
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I have been with Netflix for years and recently you have to watch 5 minutes of movie previews that you cannot fast forward. It didn't use to be this way. Now I put the dvd in 10 minutes before I turn my TV on to avoid watching that junk. I called Netflix and they say they don't make there dvd's and have no control over this. ..I'm just wondering whats next. Forced previews in the middle and end of the movie. Or worse throughout the movie just like TV that is free. Well not no more without digital equipment you cant get free TV anymore. Soon rented movies are going to have commercials. Lame... I DVR all tv and hate how the volume goes up for Oxyclean.
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HMMMMM please send me any infromation about piracy in the media or the history of piracy to jackhunn1@hotmail.co.uk
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I'm hacked off at having to sit through a load of ads at the beginning of DVD movies I buy. They don't let you select MENU and so, on some, you have to wait for 5-10 minutes of trailers before you can watch the film you've paid for! I really object to having no choice in this and it's made me wary of buying any more. When you buy a music CD you're not forced to listen to a load of ads first so why are DVDs stuffed full of promo material that just gets in the way each time you want to watch the flippin' film!? I suspect there's a way around this....
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Clint Westwood - 12-Aug-09 16:05
I completely agree, and here's my own rant about stupid DVDs...
http://audioboo.fm/boos/33132-i-hate-dvd-s
http://audioboo.fm/boos/33132-i-hate-dvd-s
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I have a Futurama box set that is a good example of this. If it gets to the end of an episode, it doesn't go back to the menu, it goes through the copyright text bit for every country imaginable. The worst bit? Once it starts, you can't get out of it, not by skipping, not by pressing the menu button.
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I agree entirely, can we not hack the software somehow, by key entries?
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BornAgainBiker - 17-Feb-09 22:00
If you cant beat em, join em ... there is loads of software out there, you can use to pirate .. oops, I mean backup your own DVDs and a lot of it gives you the option to remove unwanted junk, like the subtitles you don't use and the previews, advertising rubbish, and of course, anti piracy messages at the beginning. Don't let the 'antipiracy' protection most DVDs contain put you off either, as there is even software available to remove that... Hey presto!!! you can now watch your DVD in peace my friend :-)
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Knock off Nigel - 10-Oct-08 01:54
"you wouldn't steal a car..." eh? I might do...
Especially after the car had told me repeatedly that I wouldn't steal it...
Especially after the car had told me repeatedly that I wouldn't steal it...
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