best/favorite/easiest to use DVD player..

[Robin Laing]

Tim wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 02:19 +0200, Marcel Janssen wrote:
> 
>>On the other hand, DVD's are intended to start with a menu so for the
>>majority of people I think xine is more on track regarding DVD
>>playing.
> 
> 
> I think this is the worst aspect of DVDs.
> 
> When I play a music disc, I want to hear the music.  I put it in and
> press play, it plays the music.  
> 
> 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).
> 

Customer demands for these features on DVD's is the issue.  I don't 
like the DVD's that have all the ad's that cannot be skipped but then 
I use the time to get the popcorn and do other things (someone mention 
beer :) ) that allow me to just sit and enjoy.  Isn't this what most 
people do during the commercials?

-- 
Robin Laing