If you want real irritation, wait until you have kids though. The later "Baby Einstein" DVDs have insane amounts of no fast forward stuff.

Who would think there would be something about DVDS that could make you nostalgic for VHS?

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Nothing says romance like anal sex.

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And if they have unskippable ads for phonesex or crap like that, I just eject the DVD and put them on the refuse pile. You can make the best pornmovie there is, but if you start with a bloody unskippable ad I will not watch (and hence not buy) it. I did manage to get one company to change it though, through my complaints.

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Sorry, I don't know you and I don't want to attack you, but I heard from other people that they screen a lot of movies a day and write reviews. And most reviews look like that. You can tell that it was viewed in fast forward.

I love feedback to my movies. Of course I enjoy compliments but I respect critics and I learn from it. But many times I feel the reviewer never really watched the movie.

Dear Jacco,

how can you possibly screen 25 movies per day?

Steve Holmes

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The other problem with screening are the classics, you just can't fastforward those to get an idea which ones are the best. Luckily I like watching classics.

Jacco

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Edited by - ipop on 5/7/2007 1:49:12 AM

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I guess it's about not sweating the small stuff. It's a little like watching the kettle boil. It's always frustrating and so its better to occupy your time doing something else.

If you feel compelled to watch it however, then you could play a game with the copyright message such as reading it out load in a style of someone else's choosing, as they used to do with the closing credits on Whose Line is it Anyway.

For instance you could adopt a, like, oh my God, laugh at any question whether its funny or not porn chick interview style.

Just a suggestion.

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Haven't experienced the unskippable ads though, but I imagine it being horrible since I'm offended by how stupid they think I am... it's just so shady and unprofessional...

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I'm the customer if they want to sell me something it MUST be the way I want it and I ABSOLUTELY DON'T WANT UNSKIPPABLE ADVERTISING especially in a DVD with a cost of $20
They have to decide do they want my money? or do they want advertiser's , note that often I do watch trailers or other advertising , but I do it when I please , I don't like to be forced to.

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I have had some RLD discs that will let me skip directly to the top menu, and others that do not.

The same with other companies. There seems to be no overall "policy" they adopt on whether the 2257 message can be skipped. I assume in this case they are just dealing with a variety of DVD authors that decide to do things in their way.

The only 2 companies I can think of that consistenly let me skip the opening FBI/2257 montage are Jules Jordan and Evil Angel.

Edited by - tritone on 5/7/2007 1:58:47 PM

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IMO, after you put the disc in, it should go straight to the main menu. Wildlife XXX Prductions discs go straight into the first scene, and if you want to access the main menu, you have to press menu. That's the way it should be.

Another peeve as far as ads, is the Leisure Time discs, which have phone sex ads after every scene. And they are the oldest ads, probably from the mid '90s.

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As for the original subject, I never like having ads before the main menu or the feature. I can live with it or look past it if I can skip them (not if I can scan through them), and it's annoyed me to the point that I'm now taking a half point off the overall score of any DVD I review if it forces me to watch any kind of ad before the main menu or the feature because I find it very disrespectful to the viewer who paid money for that product. I can understand the need for the 2257 compliance screen, but that too can be done tastefully rather than forcing you to watch it for a minute or longer (which I have also seen).

Also, one can add Adam & Eve to the list of studios who do this as the last couple DVDs I watched from them had mandatory commercials for the Free Speech Coalition. The FSC is a great organization, but forcing me to watch commercials for them is one of the best possible ways to guarantee me not giving them money.

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Forced ads are a big pet peeve for me, no matter if it's mainstream or adult. This has been an old peeve going back long before I delved into writing reviews. 2257 notices, on the other hand, are a necessary evil and one that I'll accept and deal with if it means helping to keep the big-bad crusaders away.

* MD James

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