This thread is for anyone who wants to gripe about the idiotic way DVDs are made these days. People are so busy whining about commercials in movie theatres, but I never see any complaints about DVDs.
I just bought the box set of "Dragnet 1967." Here's my list of gripes about that set. (Which comes in an exceptionally cool box, but that's where my compliments end.)
When you first fire up the disk, instead of getting the menu, you get "Previews." The previews are not chapterized, so you can't skip the ones you don't want to see. You can hit "Menu" to get out of the previews, but it's a pain to have to do that every time you put in the disk.
But the biggest annoyance of all, is EVERY SINGLE EPISODE begins with the Universal animated logo --- the same one you see in movie theatres. Now personally I like the Universal logo, in fact it's one of my favorite movie openers, but I don't need 17 copies of it in my house.
OK, so you might say, just hit the chapter-skip button to get to the beginning of the actual episode, right? WRONG.....hitting that button takes you to the first commercial break. Chapter 1 contains the logo, the opening of the show, and the opening credits.
Disk 1 is a two-sided disk, no problems there except you have to get a magnifying glass to see what side you're going to play.
Disk 2 is another two-sided disk but....surprise! There are only 3 episodes on that disk, as opposed to 14 on the first one. So the two-sidedness of the second disk is unnecessary.
Personally I think the people who author these things probablyl don't ever have to take them home and actually use them. They are so busy slapping on bells and whistles that they get carried away.
OK, your turn... What's your most frustrating DVD experience? (I've got a few more of my own cued up in case nobody else responds.)
I just bought the box set of "Dragnet 1967." Here's my list of gripes about that set. (Which comes in an exceptionally cool box, but that's where my compliments end.)
When you first fire up the disk, instead of getting the menu, you get "Previews." The previews are not chapterized, so you can't skip the ones you don't want to see. You can hit "Menu" to get out of the previews, but it's a pain to have to do that every time you put in the disk.
But the biggest annoyance of all, is EVERY SINGLE EPISODE begins with the Universal animated logo --- the same one you see in movie theatres. Now personally I like the Universal logo, in fact it's one of my favorite movie openers, but I don't need 17 copies of it in my house.
OK, so you might say, just hit the chapter-skip button to get to the beginning of the actual episode, right? WRONG.....hitting that button takes you to the first commercial break. Chapter 1 contains the logo, the opening of the show, and the opening credits.
Disk 1 is a two-sided disk, no problems there except you have to get a magnifying glass to see what side you're going to play.
Disk 2 is another two-sided disk but....surprise! There are only 3 episodes on that disk, as opposed to 14 on the first one. So the two-sidedness of the second disk is unnecessary.
Personally I think the people who author these things probablyl don't ever have to take them home and actually use them. They are so busy slapping on bells and whistles that they get carried away.
OK, your turn... What's your most frustrating DVD experience? (I've got a few more of my own cued up in case nobody else responds.)