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Special Editions being released on movies made since 2001. I think in the early days, no gave much thought to putting out bare-bones editions. So I can understand movies being released with no features in 1997 to 2000, but with the DVD market ever expanding there is just no excuse for recent movies to fuck us over.. Black Hawk Down is a recent example, as well as Traffic.

What do you guys hate about DVDs?

Non-anamorphic widescreen titles.

Uninspired packaging designs/no sense of artistic style.

Snapper cases.

Keepcases that are hard to remove the disk from.

Simple flimsy boxes for sets.

Buying a title only to then hear about a superior upcoming version to be released in a few months.

OR:

Having to wait forever to buy a title because you're waiting for that superior version to be released.

Manga Entertainment Inc.

So many anime series and not enough money to get them all...

One thing that pissed me off that seems to be unique to one DVD is the Director's Cut of the Dune miniseries. It lists all of these special features on the back, and the series itself is dvided up one night per disc. But it is not listed on the back or inside on what disc what feature is found on. That pissed me off a little, having to search for certain things by changing discs.

A bit of a change.. What I like about some DVDs

SUPERBIT.. Great pic and sound no shit I don't need..

I hate 16:9 with subtitles not in the bands. I also really don't like not being able to play the movie WITH the cut scenes.

animated menus. They take to long and I'm not interested. Especially TV programs that don't have a play-all feature and have a separtae animated menu for each episode a la Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Menus with looped music that forces you to mute the telly while pees are pouring drinks/peeing/settling down

Hethrir wrote:I hate 16:9 with subtitles not in the bands. I also really don't like not being able to play the movie WITH the cut scenes.

Yeah if they want to add the cut scenes fine,but they should add them where they should be.

The BBC for taking so damn long to release series like Alan Partridge and Spooks series 1.

Oh yeah, and regions, the stupidest damn idea Hollywood has had in a long while.

innerbrat wrote:animated menus. They take to long and I'm not interested. Especially TV programs that don't have a play-all feature and have a separtae animated menu for each episode a la Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Argg! The first two seasons of buffy really piss me off for that!

I also really hate DVDs with absolutely no extras.

I had a beef with my panasonic dvd player that I bought in December of 2000. Last week, the unit just up'ed and died on me for no apparant reaon. I took the thing appart and tried a continuity test on the fuse. it checked so I'm guessing the power supply was shot. Piece of garbage!

Crap transfers with flickery colours and compression artifacts, there's way too many of those out there.

What do I truly hate about them? I can't fast-forward or skip the FCC warnings, copyright warnings, movie trailers, and all that other crap like I can with a videotape. It pisses me off when it takes me 5 minutes to get to the stupid menu so I can watch the movie. Anyone know of a DVD player that can bypass the stupid lockouts on the disc that prevent me from fastforwarding past the intro shit?

::blink::

Other than the FBI warning, I've never had a problem jumping straight to the menu?

Hethrir wrote:

innerbrat wrote:animated menus. They take to long and I'm not interested. Especially TV programs that don't have a play-all feature and have a separtae animated menu for each episode a la Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Argg! The first two seasons of buffy really piss me off for that!

I also really hate DVDs with absolutely no extras.

At least they seemed to have figured out it was annoying and backed off a bit with season 3.

I dislike DVD's that have menus that are very hard to determine what you have selected.

I also don't like double sided DVD's. Sure it's cool if they gave you a widescreen and pan & scan version but the various companies are not always consistant on how they label them. Most seem to have chosen to go with label up that's what you're getting when you put the disk in with that label facing up, but I have a few DVD's that the label on that side corresponds to that side of the disk. In otherwords the opposite.

I also don't like it when the US version of a DVD is bare bones crap while the Candadian one is a better transfer, widescreen and has a lot of extras. I ordered Gingersnaps through a Canadian company so I could get the good version. I was also able to get the pilot for Smallville through the same company while nothing has been available in the US. Unfortunately that company is now partnering with Amazon so that little doorway has likely been closed.

I fucking hate DVDs that have spoilers on the covers. For example, the DVD for the Man Who Shot Liberty Valance tells you which actor played the title role, even though figuring that mystery out was the fucking plot of the movie! Ditto with the original Planet of the Apes with the Statue of Liberty on the cover.

Yeah, those are classics, so the twists are pretty commonly known, but dammit, leave that stuff as a surprise for people who are coming across it for the first time. And that's certainly no excuse for doing it on new releases.

You get this with CDs sometimes, too. My favorite was "Qui-Gon's noble death" being listed as a track on the Ep 1 CD which came out two weeks before the movie.

-- Joe Momma

phongn wrote:Other than the FBI warning, I've never had a problem jumping straight to the menu?

I have an slightly older DVD player that does not get along too well with certain discs. On some DVD's I can skip everything except the FBI warning, on others I'm doomed to watch all the crap they put on them until the menu comes up.

phongn wrote:::blink::

Other than the FBI warning, I've never had a problem jumping straight to the menu?

Disney's terribele for that. I've got a Pixar 4 movie Box set, and you have to sit through about 4 animated Disney trailers before the menu.
Luckily, on some (not all) you can ff, but you can't skip, and that still takes a while.

Trailers placed before the menu or movie. I hate those.

Heh, David Lynch DVDs apparently have no chapters so you have to FF instead of skipping since he hates people who only want to see one part of the film.

Bug-Eyed Earl wrote:Snap cases.

Those the cheapie ones with the clasp on the side holding down the cardboard flap? I hate those.

I also hate complicated menu designs. I'd like to see what I'm selecting and intuitively know how to move to the next option (See Excel Saga disc 4).

Animated menus. Infuriating, time wasting, totally unecessary.

When I put a DVD in I want to see the options immediately, and when I push play I want what I commanded to occur IMMEDIATELY.

Bug-Eyed Earl wrote:Special Editions being released on movies made since 2001. I think in the early days, no gave much thought to putting out bare-bones editions. So I can understand movies being released with no features in 1997 to 2000, but with the DVD market ever expanding there is just no excuse for recent movies to fuck us over.. Black Hawk Down is a recent example, as well as Traffic.

What do you guys hate about DVDs?

Actually it seems to me that the company that produced Black Hawk Down was pretty upfront about there being a later release. It's kind of like LOTR. There really isn't a reason to get angry about it.

That said, I dislike other types of doubledips and a low value to cost ratio. While I like extras, sometimes they just don't exist for some movies, and if it makes the price really low, on some movies, I just don't care.

Oh and stupid DVDs that consider menus to be a special feature.

Ah ha!. I just remembered one of the things I hate the most.

Web Links. Specifically Web Links that don't do anything special other than take you to the parent company's website and/or sign you up for a newsletter.

I also don't like DVDs that have special features that only work after you add a bunch of crap to your computer.

Interactual DVD is one of those and I don't like it because once it's on your computer it keeps trying to open up and run your DVD player even though you have a different DVD program already running.

innerbrat wrote:Disney's terribele for that. I've got a Pixar 4 movie Box set, and you have to sit through about 4 animated Disney trailers before the menu.
Luckily, on some (not all) you can ff, but you can't skip, and that still takes a while.

...and tt's why you buy DVD. Pay exta to get features and NO TRAILERS OR ADS!

Another pet hate of mine, is 8 gb on a disc. Companies should learn to use it all. Like buying a series on DVD, only to get charged huge amounts for one or two eps.

The one thing about it that bugs me so much. When movies leave out scenes from the Theatrical release for no other reason than to show them on the DVD. I can understand why some movies have much more on the DVD than in theater (T2, LotR, etc) but some seem to cut scenes simply to put them on the DVD. Hell on a lot of them you can tell exactly where the scenes were cut and it hurts the movie.