best/favorite/easiest to use DVD player..

[Fritz Whittington]

On or about 2005-10-27 10:46, Tim pulled out a trusty #2 pencil and 
scribbled:

>Tim:
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>>>I think this is the worst aspect of DVDs.
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>>>When I play a music disc, I want to hear the music.  I put it in and
>>>press play, it plays the music.  
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>>>DVD players should work the same way:  Put it in, press play, 
>>>the movie begins.  I've got a menu button on my player *should* I want
>>>to do something else (like sit through several minutes of animated 
>>>menus, one after another, several copyright warnings in different
>>>languages, and three film company brag clips, etc).
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>STYMA, ROBERT E (ROBERT):
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>>I agree with the complaint about having to wade through advertisements 
>>before you get to watch the movie.  Fortunately the "main menu" button 
>>will usually help skip over these.
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>Unfortunately, I find it rarely does.  Just about everything forces you
>to watch what they want.  It's the minority that lets you do what you
>want.
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>>Many DVD's also come with short documentaries about how the movie was
>>made which makes the menu a useful.
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>Yes, though that's what the menu button is for.  It lets me choose
>something else on the disc, when I opt to view the menu.  That ought to
>be an option, not something I'm forced to endure.
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>Waiter:  Would you like to see the menu?
>Customer:  No, I'd like the steak.
>Waiter:  You must choose it from the menu.
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>>Also scene selection helps since many DVD players do not let
>>you take the disk out, put it in later, and pick up where you left off.
>>(The old VCR technology did have some good points.)  Just my 2 cents worth.
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>Yes, that's annoying.  I've several players.  Two offer a resume
>features that rarely works (you end up in the wrong place, or back at
>the start).  Mine can't resume its place on one disc when you've played
>another one since.  And resume certainly can't work when you started
>watching a movie in the lounge then decided to watch the rest in bed.
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So don't just complain, DO something about it!

1:  Making a backup copy of a $20 DVD onto a $0.50 DVD+R sounds like 
fair use and a good idea, considering how easy it is to ruin a DVD.

2:  Free software like DVD Decrypter and DVD Shrink will allow you to 
make your backup copy, and drop everything but the main movie and the 
Scene Selection Menu. 

3:  File your original safely away and use the backup.  Works for me.

-- 
Fritz Whittington -- TI Alum -- http://www.tialumni.org
"There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have." --Don Herold

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