I just bought a new DVD and to my horror it had ads on the start up just like you used to get with VHS videos back in the day. I am shocked, Ive never had a DVD like this before. What do you guys think of this?

...that you have bought a pirated one? ;)
:D
bye!

What movie? Where'd you buy it? If you buy the movie legit you shouldn't have to view ads. I'd boycott whoever's responsible for the ads.

I've seen it once too. Can't remember which one. I think it was a movie for children. They like to start young with indoctrination.

AAAARRRGGGHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ADVERTS!
Why? We bought it to watch at home! Isn't our home safe from adverts? Is there anywhere in our entertainment network that is safe from advertising?

is nothing sacred anymore?, we bought dvds so that we dont have to watch ads!!!
to fix:
go to scene select and select scene 1. that skips the ads/intro

advertising killed the video star ;)

My first DVD I owned that had ads was iGone in 60 Seconds. Lol, and that's the movie title, not what I did with the DVD after seeing the ads. ;)

Anyhow, it had a bunch of ads for Fox movies (I think it was Fox) and it showed a bunch of clips of their movies and then there were two movie previews for Mission to Mars (or something similar) and also Shanghai Knights. Those at least had to do with movies but damn, I rented one movie from Blockbuster awhile back and it had a TON of previews and then it had some ads that had nothing to do with movies, I think it was home decoration or gardening or something to do with homes, ugh, wtf!

- N

It was Starsky and Hutch 2004! It is a legit product, at least I believe it to be as it was bought out of a highstreet shop that Ive bought other DVDs out of with no ads! It isnt a big named DVD/Music retailer but another small scale one.
Ok, I know that it aint the best film in the world but I found it entertaining and it was at a good price.

It isnt even a rental copy as it says on it: "NOT FOR RENTAL. This DVD is authorised for retail sale for private home use only" I mean you could expect to have to watch ads on a rental copy.

It gets worse as it happens when you first play the DVD, not the movie so you have to fast forward through the ads. It was advertising the ladykillers etc.

bastards!

Yep, these have been going around a while. What's worse is that many are unskippable, so you have to watch every fucking time you want to watch a movie! It's dispicable. You've already purchased one of their products, but they force you to watch their adverts just to use it!

its times like these i am glad i do not own any legitimate softaware/videos/music at all

they are skippable if you edit the DVD and make another copy of the edited copy

i cant afforda DVD burner at the moment, when i get a job i will be able to do that

There are ways of skipping it ... depending on what media player you use to watch the DVD. Like when I watch a DVD movie, I use Intervideo WinDVD player and on the side of the tracker is the option to skip right to the root menu ... skipping all the ads prior to the selection screen.

I'm sure there is a similar option on other media players.

doesn't help if the ads are put on the same track as the actual film

Well if they are on the same track as the film ... than they should be as skippable than if you were wacthing a movie on a video cassette. It doesn't make much sense if you can't skip it if you choose not to watch it.

But than again ... I never saw a DVD with the ads directly integrated into the actual track of the movie. All the ones I've seen have the ads separate from the track and are easily skippable if needed.

Should we really be forced to skip adds on a product we purchased? Isn't that the question?

My My.. Check the source of your DVD.. DVD's for rental can have ad's, and rightly so. Most of the rental DVD's are leased and returned to be destroyed after several months on the shelves. If you have been unlucky and purchased a DVD that was meant for rental then write to the distributer and ask for a private copy for home use only. You should be able to get a copy that does not have ad's or gives you the power to skip ad's.

Remember you don't own the movie just the right to view the movie. With this right comes conditions, if you don't like it then don't watch them.

Without advertising how would you ever know about the other great productions out there. Without advertising the free market that gives you all these great products would not function and we would still be in the dark ages.

Advertisement, a small price to pay (your time) for the marvelous technology we all have at our finger tips. Thank god for ad's...

We don't need adds on DVDs because we are not stupid. We know what is out there.

Advertisement, a small price to pay (your time) for the marvelous technology we all have at our finger tips. Thank god for ad's...
thank's to the filesharing gods ads can go and f*** themselves
with all their ceos and presidents

p.s. I got rid of my tv and radio in 1998
most internet ads are being blocked by software
spam filters take care of my email

We don't need adds on DVDs because we are not stupid. We know what is out there.
How could you possibly know what out there with out some form of advertising? Oh thats right you can read minds... Silly me..


thank's to the filesharing gods ads can go and f*** themselves
with all their ceos and presidents

Yep and a thief don't have a job because society provided all they will ever need.

Thanks to the file sharing, rippers, selfish half wits we all have to put up with lower quality products and those that pay have to pay more. But of course you wont mind me walking into your house and taking what ever I like...

How could you possibly know what out there with out some form of advertising? Oh thats right you can read minds... Silly me..
haven't seent they advertise french, czech or itallian surreal films
anyways, that's what interests me
I get my info from webrings, fan pages and specialized forums
But of course you wont mind me walking into your house and taking what ever I like...
you'd have to get past the security :D

you'll have to get past the security
Im sure its nothing that a sledge hammer and some quick footed running can't get over. Especially if I know that no one will chase me. It still makes it morally wrong.
haven't seent they advertise french, czech and itallian surreal films
anyways, that's what interests me
Yep and Im sure the producers are perfectly happy that you steal their content... Are you also saying that the French, Czech and Italians don't advertise. Do you know what a billboard is, have you ever watched free to air TV or radio. How could you possibly know what you want to watch without some form of advertisement. There are 6billion odd creative individuals on this planet, but off course you mind readers can hone in on the good stuff without ever listening or watching anything that is provided legally free... I wish I could do that.

Yep and Im sure the producers are perfectly happy that you steal their content...
I think they'd be happy to know that somebody sees their content :D
Are you also saying that the French, Czech and Italians don't advertise.
well, not surreal films anyways
you don't see them being advertised in cinemas anyways
Do you know what a billboard is, have you ever watched free to air TV or radio.
the past 6 years .. not really. what's a billboard? :confused: some kind of a forum?
I wish I could do that.
poor thing :(

Im sure you pay little attention to the ad's on this very page.. But without it this forum would soon disappear. It requires money to run this forum and without advertising you blogs would have no where to crap..

opps.. No offense to the good posters that don't steal...

I don't see any ads on this page :)
all google strings are disallowed to load

p.s. I pay for my own forum to be afloat

Well arn't you lucky that some of us don't block ad's or you wouldn't have the privilege of my excellent banter.. :)

//laughs
it's fine with me as long as I'm not the one seeing/clicking those ads

BEHOLD - Sciforums like it used to be in the good old days! (pardon a cliche)
No ads or any sign of them. :)
http://piparmetra.net/outer_realms/ftp/noads1.jpg
http://piparmetra.net/outer_realms/ftp/noads2.jpg

to achieve: with your webbrowser or any adblock soft block the following url ->
http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/

I'm using Mozilla Firefox with Adblock v0.5 d2 extension

p.s. I don't actually mind google ads. they're minimalistic, nice and usually on the subject.
it's just that I prefer Sciforums to look like they used to look back when I joined
and I probably wouldn't buy anything advertised there anyways

Is that an ad in your post?

to achieve: with your webbrowser or any adblock soft block the following url ->
http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/


Trust the blogs to have such double standards...

there is no ad, just an easy-to-understand no-ad guide to sci
don't get where's your problem

Opps sorry should have followed the link... Apologizes. :).

How could you possibly know what out there with out some form of advertising? Oh thats right you can read minds... Silly me..


I go and see almost every movie in the movie theatre. There are free magazines with reviews. The old classics I know from TV during my childhood.

Yep. As with free to air TV and radio. They are free because they are full of advertisements. Open one of your free mags and count the number of full page ad's.

The reason they a free is because the advertisers pay for them... To produce a 30 page mag with glossy pages and a run of 10000 will cost $5000-$10000 dollars. This cost burden is carried by the advertisers.

that is bullshit
they are not free
the nerve cells that they potentially can kill are non restorable and very valuable to me. advertising=brainwashing
I hate whens somebody tries to do that.

besides, they take away valuable time. even if you don't agree with me on the frustration->nerve cell destruction
advertisments->editing the audience's psyche

Im sure you pay little attention to the ad's on this very page.. But without it this forum would soon disappear. It requires money to run this forum and without advertising you blogs would have no where to crap..

The only times I look at the ads on these forums is to make sure I don't click on the darn thing when pointing my mouse to the scroll bar. :p

I have no problem with ads per say, just that there's too darned bloody much of them!

- N

What about ads in movie theaters? Admission prices goes up every year and we still have to endure big loud stupid ads.

you could bribe the cinema staff to skip those ads :p

Yep. As with free to air TV and radio. They are free because they are full of advertisements. Open one of your free mags and count the number of full page ad's.

I skip those. I can't on a DVD. When I was young there was only twice a day or so advertisements on TV. Not 8 times in an hour. No advertisements on sunday though back then. The community paid for TV. Then the commercial stations came and now it is apparently ok to show adds all the time. Even on government sponsored TV (for which we pay the TV liscence) it has become acceptable to show adds all the time.

I dumped my TV a year ago. I was fed up with watching a program inbetween the adds.


The reason they a free is because the advertisers pay for them... To produce a 30 page mag with glossy pages and a run of 10000 will cost $5000-$10000 dollars. This cost burden is carried by the advertisers.

The one I am referring too is made out of newspaper paper. Not so many adds either. It is probably parly sponsored by the city.

Next thing we know they will start putting adds in BOOKS! Because it is SO expensive to print them. Every other page is an advertisment.

Next thing we know they will start putting adds in BOOKS! Because it is SO expensive to print them. Every other page is an advertisment.
yeah, but wouldn't you enjoy your book for 50 cents? think of the beauty. a consumers dream :p //sneers

I would only enjoy it as toilet paper.

Not that I ever noticed it before but as an experiment I selected at random 20 books from my library, all but two had advertisements on the last pages the average of 2.4 pages of ad's per book.

You might hate ad's. Some of us are even so paranoid that they might be swayed into buying something they don't need.

Yes ad's can waist your time, and some can be downright annoying, But in the long run ad's reduce the price of goods and services. Its called supply and demand. Ads create demand, increased sales reduce cost, reduced cost makes for a better world.

Love or hate them, ad's make this technocratic world more accessible to all.

I wounder if any of you self proclaimed left wingers know how right wing your anti ad views are. :bugeye:

I have communist tendencies. I don't care about your worshipping of the supply/demand holy grail. Don't force it down my throat. I will pay more for less adds.

But you dont mind playing with the toys...

I've never said I'm left wing. I dislike communists. Even had my name on a dotted line. suckers! got lucky with the ussr kaput.
anyways.. how is disliking ads left wing>? I hate any attempts at brainwashing. that's all. and I don't care if someone is going to suffer if I don't buy some advertised product.

It is a misconception that capatalism brought the world all that is good. Capatalism didn't invent everything nor did capatalism even create the internet for instance. Capatalism just exploits everything.

and this is all rather off topic.

Disliking ads is right wing..

Well you better stop communicating, your starting to kill my brain cells...

Spurious.. May be you should grow up a bit.. This is a capitalist world.. When you get sick many years from now you will thank the capitalist for providing you relief from suffering...

You are making the mistake to think that the US is the world.

I'm not continuing these off topics remarks here. Create a thread if you want to discuss this.

Yep we are spiraling. BTW Im not an American..