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Didn't somebody recently propose a meta-function allowing
you to skip all the previews and garbage you have to sit
through before a DVD menu? |
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I sympathize with you. It's especially annoying when the
show's theme sequence is part of the first chapter of the
episode rather than encoded separately. |
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//skip all the previews and garbage you have to sit
through before a DVD menu// |
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Well you can do that on a computer, so you could
make a DVD player that does it. |
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They can, but they won't. Vested interests. |
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The trick is to use a computer to rip the DVD to the hard drive, chop of all the garbage at the front, then write it out to a DVD-R. You can even blank the region info and the anti-copy at the same time. |
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Get a machine set up to do that, and it becomes a quick and easy process. |
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Why would a DVD player manufacturer have any
interest in Warner Bros. adverts? |
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Your process sounds somewhat more involved than a
bit of fast forwarding. |
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// Why would a DVD player manufacturer have any interest in Warner Bros. adverts ? // |
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DVD player manufacturers want to sell the players they make. |
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Consumers buy DVD players to watch TV shows and movies released by the networks and studios, like Sony, WB, whatever. |
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These organisations wish to preserve their intellectual property rights in the product. If purchasers could easily skip over the copyright messages, this would not suit them at all, bless their great big overstuffed wallets. |
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So the deal is that all DVD players have to incorporate MacroVision copying protection, without which they would not get a licence to use the DVD standard, and if the DVD standard did not include this requirement then the studios would not issue their movies on DVD. |
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Since the protection has now been cracked, it's all pretty pointless, but it does stop Joe Public from quickly and easily copying DVDs. |
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However, even unsophisticated pc users can copy DVDs now, and the pirates have been at it for years. |
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Does that answer your question ? |
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Can we interest you in our latest DVD offerings
<link>? |
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That's the one I was thinking of. I knew it was pretty
recent. |
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//all DVD players have to incorporate MacroVision
copying protection//
[8th of 7] Isn't it that without the MacroVision
software, the player could not play the DVD?
Anyway, I thought there were now open source
versions to decrypt DVDs so anyone can make a
player. |
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I could of course be wrong, I know very little about
this kind of thing. |
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I was thinking more of downloaded files anyway. In
that case it would make the download smaller if
the extraneous bits were removed or included in
separate files in the torrent, which you could take
or leave. |
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However, sometimes I want to see the credits and
find out who played Minion 3, that guy we saw in
thingy, or I might need to be reminded what
happened in the previous episode. Sometimes it's
worth watching the titles (Psych's variations for
example). It's just when I feel like a bit of a
marathon that it gets annoying. |
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