The thing that bugs me most is that on a movie DVD there is so much extra unused room. What I mean here is that if you encode it competently, a DVD holds far
more that a movie DVD suggests it has capacity of. They just can't give me enough extras to fill the disk space on a DVD.... on a significantly larger
format... they are basically giving me less content (relative to disk space) than DVD did on Blu-Ray.
DRM however is a same old, same old thing. Sure it sounds annoying and even more annoying than making it so I can not bypass the previews on my home DVD
player (unless the player has some odd design that means I can fastforeward(Weren't DVDs meant to ditch that annoying requirement of VHS tapes?)).
However, if you think back to the start of DVDs.... you remember the brlillant idea of regional encoding. This was when I couldn't get a DVD to play on my
spiffy new DVD player... solely because they added a microchip, to the DVD player, that had the sole function of reading a tiny bit of data and telling me if I
could actually watch my legally purchased DVD... without buying a new machine, when my old machine was perfectly capable of playing the DVD, minus a few lines
of garbage code. I had a friend who bought a region free bypasss chip and welded it in himself to bypass this.
It saddens me that I want to bootleg simplely to bypass the annoying extra 'features' that mean I have to wait ten minutes to get to the menu screen.
I bought your shiny, new, video disk thingie to avoid watching previews for movies that I don't want to seee (that are frequently not ones I want to
see)... why are you punishing me for dealing with you again?
I know Sony learned how to win a format war, after their mistakes with there smaller machine and smaller media, that held better vieo, all around technically
supier Beta video tape.... but why the explitive are they channeling Stalin/Lenin/Mao in the victory lap? Win the war.... then starve 20 or 30 million people
(media players) with your malignant tactics and inability to run the post war adminastration. The way Sony wins the new format war and then attacks its
customers... is the same kind of fail that resulted from the massive shift of massive communist regimes from agriculture to industry (we who do not believe in
God (the gods) demand he/they/she/it provide us with an infinite amount of free food.... or the unfed starve... their lack of faith disturbed us Important
people anyway). Only once they (Sony) win the war, the governing force decide to attack their own guys (and customers) with red tape and propaganda, rather
than just sell them stuff (feed them) they want.
It the same kind of logic that whatever idiot the have running Cartoon Network badly, this week uses when they decide to take up 24 hours showing the same
movie the executive loves on loop... when more people are home to watch the channel.... decides Cartoon Network will only show different kinds of Scoobie Doo
all day... or that Cartoon Network should show less of that popular anime stuff and more live action shows.
more that a movie DVD suggests it has capacity of. They just can't give me enough extras to fill the disk space on a DVD.... on a significantly larger
format... they are basically giving me less content (relative to disk space) than DVD did on Blu-Ray.
DRM however is a same old, same old thing. Sure it sounds annoying and even more annoying than making it so I can not bypass the previews on my home DVD
player (unless the player has some odd design that means I can fastforeward(Weren't DVDs meant to ditch that annoying requirement of VHS tapes?)).
However, if you think back to the start of DVDs.... you remember the brlillant idea of regional encoding. This was when I couldn't get a DVD to play on my
spiffy new DVD player... solely because they added a microchip, to the DVD player, that had the sole function of reading a tiny bit of data and telling me if I
could actually watch my legally purchased DVD... without buying a new machine, when my old machine was perfectly capable of playing the DVD, minus a few lines
of garbage code. I had a friend who bought a region free bypasss chip and welded it in himself to bypass this.
It saddens me that I want to bootleg simplely to bypass the annoying extra 'features' that mean I have to wait ten minutes to get to the menu screen.
I bought your shiny, new, video disk thingie to avoid watching previews for movies that I don't want to seee (that are frequently not ones I want to
see)... why are you punishing me for dealing with you again?
I know Sony learned how to win a format war, after their mistakes with there smaller machine and smaller media, that held better vieo, all around technically
supier Beta video tape.... but why the explitive are they channeling Stalin/Lenin/Mao in the victory lap? Win the war.... then starve 20 or 30 million people
(media players) with your malignant tactics and inability to run the post war adminastration. The way Sony wins the new format war and then attacks its
customers... is the same kind of fail that resulted from the massive shift of massive communist regimes from agriculture to industry (we who do not believe in
God (the gods) demand he/they/she/it provide us with an infinite amount of free food.... or the unfed starve... their lack of faith disturbed us Important
people anyway). Only once they (Sony) win the war, the governing force decide to attack their own guys (and customers) with red tape and propaganda, rather
than just sell them stuff (feed them) they want.
It the same kind of logic that whatever idiot the have running Cartoon Network badly, this week uses when they decide to take up 24 hours showing the same
movie the executive loves on loop... when more people are home to watch the channel.... decides Cartoon Network will only show different kinds of Scoobie Doo
all day... or that Cartoon Network should show less of that popular anime stuff and more live action shows.