Trailers on Beggining of Blus

[Rob Hunter]

is it just me who finds these annoying ?

[HotRats]

Me as well, especially the unskippable ones that you have to fast forward through. Not once have compulsory ads induced me to buy or rent a Blu, DVD or videotape (way back in the old days). Nothing wrong with trailers as an extra feature but otherwise they're just a royal PITA

[Rob Hunter]

Originally Posted by HotRats

Me as well, especially the unskippable ones that you have to fast forward through. Not once have compulsory ads induced me to buy or rent a Blu, DVD or videotape (way back in the old days). Nothing wrong with trailers as an extra feature but otherwise they're just a royal PITA

totally agree

just reminds me of Rental Copys

[in2blu]

Absolutely. One thing that annoys me is the Universal blurays. I watched the BTTF Trilogy the past three days, and everytime this silly little man pops up saying what I presume would be thank you for buying an official disc. I didn't give the pipsqueak time to finish though.

[thewerepuppygrr]

Totally, I like being able to access trailers from the menu if I'm bored, but I don't need to see them every time.

I also don't like to be told that 'Piracy is a Crime' when I've bought the damn thing, or that 'Views in commentaries do not represent this studio', because I don't care.

And yeah, that whole 'Knock-off Nigel' thank you thing is irritating too, especially when it looks like they've borrowed the little cartoon man from the Lloyds TSB adverts.

[chip75]

Disney are big offenders of this but their trailers are usually lovely to watch. To me it harks back to rentals and trailers can date a film terribly. Imagine the dreck of trailers that went with the original VHS release of The Terminator or films 'coming soon to a theatre near you' which have been on home release for years.

Universal DVD's used to start up straight away without any warning. I know some of my BD's do the same (I think Warners Bros.) it should be standard practice.

The rest should be available from the menu.

[Al_The_Strange]

Who doesn't find any of this annoying?

[JayX]

The most annoying thing is with the anti-piracy ads, whether it was the old 'Check for the hologram' ones on VHS tapes or that stupid 'You wouldn't...' one, is that any pirate copy is going to have these removed.

It was pretty much a standard for people who used CCE/Scenarist back in the day of DVD duplication to remove all unskippable items and reauthor the menus to how they should be for the consumer. The pirate copies of a DVD original to DVD-DL would be better than the store bought version because of this. Lunacy.

[I_Like_Movies]

They are annoying and Disney is the worst of the worst for this, usually 6-8 trailers to skip through. However what drives me completely mad are the previews/announcements that I can't skip through.

[KingSimba]

They can be annoying, but luckily most of them seem to be skippable nowadays.

Though Paramount/DreamWorks seem to still not let you skip through all the 'WARNING' messages crap at the beginning.

[chip75]

Originally Posted by JayX

The most annoying thing is with the anti-piracy ads, whether it was the old 'Check for the hologram' ones on VHS tapes or that stupid 'You wouldn't...' one, is that any pirate copy is going to have these removed.

It was pretty much a standard for people who used CCE/Scenarist back in the day of DVD duplication to remove all unskippable items and reauthor the menus to how they should be for the consumer. The pirate copies of a DVD original to DVD-DL would be better than the store bought version because of this. Lunacy.

Another thing which home brewers have done is remove the 'previously on....' bits especially when chapter 2 of a BD/DVD is five minutes in instead of the start of the episode. 24 is a big culprit. It's not rocket science to think that viewers may just want to skip the recap of the last episode when you just watch the darn thing. Kudos to Supernatural authorers who give you a 'skip the recap' option.

[KingSimba]

Originally Posted by JayX

or that stupid 'You wouldn't...' one

Do you mean this one?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5SmrHNWhak

I always found that one funny

[Anth1888]

I always hated the BBFC's rating warnings in the 90's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZvchsP-r5M

[KingSimba]

Originally Posted by Anth1888

I always hated the BBFC's rating warnings in the 90's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZvchsP-r5M

Wow I remember those on videos now

[Matt74uk]

The IT Crowd take on the "You wouldn't..." trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9_hWoGrxWg

I tend to use the adverts now as the time I get the beer out of the fridge, get the popcorn out of the microwave and turn off the lights.

[I_Like_Movies]

Originally Posted by Matt74uk

The IT Crowd take on the "You wouldn't..." trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9_hWoGrxWg

too funny

[DaveSimonH]

Unskippable, annoying. The rest, meh.

Originally Posted by Anth1888

I always hated the BBFC's rating warnings in the 90's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZvchsP-r5M

Yeah, don't know how many times I've watched that now but it always crack me up

[Billz]

Originally Posted by Anth1888

I always hated the BBFC's rating warnings in the 90's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZvchsP-r5M

I always wanted those big age rating stamps that would appear near the end of the age rating ads!

[richieb1971]

Disney is the worst.

I think CARS has -

Coming soon to blu ray - 2 or 3 trailers
Coming soon to theatres - 2 or 3 trailers

Then it goes on to advertise what blu ray is and why its better.

After all the fuss is over you've lost 20 minutes of your life.

[No1Mugster]

I've never come across unskippable trailers, that would annoy me. If they are skippable it doesn't bother me at all.