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CLOUDBOND007

DVD menus suck.

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(03/08/08 11:15 PM)

Lunitari Mage
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There should be an option on the player to automatically bypass everything and play the main movie instead of watching the animated menu system. And there should be some memory system so once you see a disclaimer and FBI warning once, it never comes on again.

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Crawl and 1OOO

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(03/08/08 11:20 PM)

The Fuzzy Physicist
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Yes.

But some DVDs are good. Like, I think if you put The Godfather in, it just plays the movie. It doesn't even take you to a menu first. I might have a few other DVDs like that, but that's the main one that comes to mind.

Disclaimers and FBI warnings should be at the end of the movie.

Bomberguy221

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(03/10/08 5:59 AM)

Hit and away is my style!

I hate the DVD menus that give away the movie's story or key plot points. I mean, there ARE people who haven't seen the movie who are renting and seeing it for the first time. It's the in medias res thing, only now it's like a Cliff's Notes version.

da dick

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(03/10/08 7:12 AM)

and my bird can sing too!

don't see the big deal. just wastes a few seconds. i do have a bad habit of viewing the ending 1st.. haven't seen any menus containing spoliers.

"How can we jump over our shadows when we no longer have one?How can we pass out of the century (not to
speak of the millennium)if we do not make up our minds to put an end to it, engaged as we are in an indefinite work of mourning for all the incidents, ideologies and violence which have marked it?"
- THE END OF THE MILLENNIUM OR THE COUNTDOWN , Jean Baudrillard.

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(03/10/08 7:15 AM)

The Fuzzy Physicist
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That was even worse with VHS movies. Sometimes, they'd have some feature before the movie, like the making of Jaws, or something, and it'll show Robert Shaw's character get eaten by a shark. I think when FO and I rented that movie, we had already both seen it, and, yeah, the movie is 30 years old, but there must be some people who would rent the movie to see it for the first time.

The trailer for Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory spoils the whole film. It shows the fate of every child, and even shows the glass elevator going through the roof and floating over the city.

crimsonreborn

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(05/02/08 8:20 PM)

I love movie commercials.
It's like a time warp.
I can watch a whole two hour film and all its best .... in a three minute commercial.

There should be regulations on DVD Menus. If the producer cannot figure out how to play the movie, *fail*.

The new HD DVDs most of the time have much better menus. I can even play the movie and look at the menu at the same time. Minty.

Flying Omelette

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(05/02/08 8:35 PM)

Frickin' Fred Durst on Stilts

The worst DVD menu I remember was either Transformers Season 3 or 4 where Rodimus Prime walks through a door and slowly limps over to a console, and I don't think you could skip it.

Why was he injured, anyway?

Think of what you're saying,
You can get it wrong
And still you think that it's all right.
Think of what I'm saying,
We can work it out
And get it straight or say good night.

There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
And God, I know I'm one

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Captain Ladd Spencer

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(05/02/08 9:03 PM)

Behold the many
uses of my amazing
BIONIC ARM!

Optimus Prime kicked his ass for having a retarded name?

Magical Yard Gnome

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(05/04/08 3:15 AM)

Heavy Metal Chainsaw

At least it's better than Kup. I mean seriously, Kup?

Caution children! Happy ice cream dancing for you!

Flying Omelette

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(05/05/08 6:32 AM)

Frickin' Fred Durst on Stilts

Not to derail the topic, but I think that was one of the main things that bothered me when those Season 3 characters replaced the main cast of Seasons 1 and 2 - their names were all really stupid. "Springer" wasn't much better, and neither was "Arcee" (which I thought was spelled as "RC" for years and consequently thought was stupid since she's not a remote control car), and of course, "Wheelie". Ultra Magnus was the only new Autobot that had a cool name.

Think of what you're saying,
You can get it wrong
And still you think that it's all right.
Think of what I'm saying,
We can work it out
And get it straight or say good night.

There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
And God, I know I'm one

Kitsunexus

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(05/09/08 4:10 AM)

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CLOUDBOND007 wrote:
There should be an option on the player to automatically bypass everything and play the main movie instead of watching the animated menu system.

I don't know what kind of crap APEX player you're using, but most decent players have this option. I think even the SlimStyle PS2 has this option, but I'll never know because I don't enable it because SURPRISE SURPRISE I LIKE-AH THA MENUZ.

CLOUDBOND007

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(05/09/08 12:33 PM)

Lunitari Mage
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And how does that feature work on your magic DVD player? Do you have to actually keep pressing the skip button? Because I'm talking about something more hands off than that where you press power, put the disc in, and the first scene of the movie plays.

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Kitsunexus

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(05/09/08 1:52 PM)

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Yes, dipshit, on my Magnavox player, there is an option that when you stick a disc in, it bypasses the menu and just plays the movie. So stop being a dipshit, buy a better DVD player, and press the SETUP button.

If you can only manage the latter two I COMPLETELY understand.

CLOUDBOND007

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(05/09/08 10:14 PM)

Lunitari Mage
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I like being a dipshit, I have too many DVD players already, thanks for the info.
Now if you could just manage to go die in a fire, that would be great.

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CLOUDBOND007

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(05/09/08 10:54 PM)

Lunitari Mage
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But seriously, I think that's too much like the argument that if you buy an Xbox 360, you should (and can easily afford) to buy an HDTV with it. If the developers don't make the text readable on a SDTV, it's just because you were too stupid to buy a good TV.

If you don't like DVD menus, it's because you were stupid and didn't buy a really expensive player.

I have a Panasonic player from a couple years back and an almost new RCA one. I have an Xbox 360 and a PS3. To my knowledge, none of them can do what you're describing. I think four DVD players (maybe five because I might really have an ancient Apex player put away somewhere) is enough for one person and as annoying as the menus are, if buying a DVD player for double or triple the entry level price is necessary to avoid them, it's not worth it.

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(05/10/08 2:19 PM)

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