best/favorite/easiest to use DVD player..

[Robin Laing]

Tim wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 09:09 -0600, Robin Laing wrote:
> 
>>I would like to just put the DVD in and play it but from market 
>>surveys, customers want all the extras.  It was one of the features 
>>that pushed DVD sales way over video cassettes.  Heck, many people 
>>that I talk to about DVD's spend more time talking about the extras. 
>>Why do all the dual DVD or sets sell so well?  In many cases it is the
>>extras.
> 
> 
> While I agree people like the extras, I doubt that all would be too
> happy about the way they're done (convoluted menus, hidden items,
> mystery navigation, etc.).
> 
> I don't think much of marketing surveys, they're either skewed to
> present the desired results, or just stupidly done.  I'm quite confident
> that if people were asked if they'd like the first press of the play
> button to just play the movie, and the menu button could let them do
> everything else, that'd be popular.  Most especially if you asked them,
> too, if it was annoying having to work through a disc like most force
> you to, currently.
> 

Actually marketing was looking at how to get people to purchase DVDs 
without the extras so the studios could then sell an "extras laden" 
version later.  It didn't work.  People will just wait for the extras 
version.

Some of the hidden menus are just fun to find.
-- 
Robin Laing