DVD’s

they have the tabs cus little 3yr old fucks would open them and fuckem up, thanx alot u little bastards

System of a Down! :D

I have a very high-quality expensive DVD player,so when it starts skipping,it's serious!

more bullshit man!

ah i miss the days of vhs no worry about scratching or other shit

Only the packaging on some moives and TV shows + paying by the day to rent moives is the bull shit part of DVD. For me Red Box and Net flicks are no good both cost to much money. Blockbuster's old $5.50 an week for Blu-ray was just right for ME.

Nerd my good man, this is why so many people just download their movies, no they don't do it to pirate, at least not most of them, they do it to avoid all this crap, even if they bought the movie they'll download it anyway and keep the dvd case in their collection praying it will never grace the glorious laser of a dvd player.

For packing different Bond movies together and not in order. I think that it is that companies that wish to get rid of shitty movies with good ones like those combo pack you see in Walmart

I noticed that VHSs were also labled with run time in minutes and I still remember getting the Star Wars Trilogy Special Addition on VHS and it's run time was labled for all three movies together, on the box but that to is Bullshit. Trying to get DVDs to work reminds me of the days of Nintendo cartridges. Remember how if the game didn't work you'd take it out and blow on the card. I find that often works when DVDs glitch or won't play.

I agreed with everything you said except about the full screan thing I hate wide screen I want see everything thats going on with out two big ass black bars on the top and bottom

I agree completely, Its always a challenge to find the run time on a DVD, except for this one time. I recently bought Spirited Away on DVD and the run time was right on the disc, where it belongs. Its still in minutes, 125 minutes, but its better than nothing I guess. When I saw that I thought of this video immedeately.

VHS FOR LIFE!

Nicely done sir! I would also like to add to this, I hate when you pop DvD and it plays clips of the film you are watching. What if you're showing this film to somebody who hasn't seen it yet. Barton Fink does this, worse it shows a clip from the ending!

you know what's bullshit when that little thing comes off of the sd card i mean like come on there so small and you can't even see them

This series isn't bullshit. Kicks ass!

@Mr. M

ya your right im sure I have seen movies in theaters, I watch it at a friends house and wait a minute. Wasn't their a different scene? or what happened to that.

"duh uh, no that never happened nope, nope, nope"

Region coding is pointless and a headache for foreign language enthusiasts and travelers. What if you want to watch a Russian DVD to better your Russian? Sure you can switch the region code, but if you want to watch an American DVD you have to switch back, and you can usually only switch about five times. The problem with this is that there aren't enough people affected by this issue to raise enough of a stink - intellectual types who enjoy foreign films are in a minority. Besides, region coding is not done to stop piracy, it is done for other reasons such as to control prices in other countries, since some areas are willing to pay more for a DVD than others.

@ben 10 guy How in the love of fuck could a movie be 1 hour and 66 minutes long?

thats funny, i had always thought
noooo widescreen version!! i hate that lame black on the top and bottom, why they have that???? nooooo ... :D but that was when the cheapest LCD TVs were like $1000

I know how bad it can be when DVDs get fucked up. At least once or twice on most of my "Animaniacs" discs, the playback stops for a few seconds while the sound keeps going, and then you can see the video continue while the TV makes the most horrible whining noise ever (like a helium gas leak bumped up a few thousand Hz). And even if you paused the DVD or attempt to mute the TV, it still makes that whining noise, and won't STFU unless I completely unplug the player (yeah, it's so broken the noise doesn't stop if you eject the disc). And then, to be even more of a jerk, when I chapter-skip back to the beginning of the episode, and it comes up to where it had a seizure, it doesn't! It seems to only do that at a specific part once per viewing of the set.

And I think it's probably a problem with the player, and how it attempts to recover from a scratch on the disc (which most of the set apparently has, but that's probably my fault, I've had them a while). The more robust player in my living room doesn't have a seizure like that, nor does PowerDVD on my computer, or my PS3's Blu-Ray player which is connected to the same TV as the spazoid. It's just this cheap CyberHome player that goes ballistic at the slightest scratch. I don't even want to know what'd happen if I put a Blu-Ray disc in, or even worse, a DVD I burned myself.

i think 1:66:1 is run time

The snap things on DVDs to my knowledge are only on Disney DVDs, so I'm guessing it's to keep it away from kids. BUT kids aren't that stupid. They can easily find out how it works, and snap the things right off, because it's fucking pointless.

Another stupid thing is when they release older movies on DVD, but don't write anywhere when the movie was made - instead they only show you what year the DVD was produced! Couldn't they at least show us both? Why would I care more about the production year for the DVD than for the movie?

lol in holland we dont have this shit, only universal and paramount.

keep up the good work james

Funny how I had to watch an advertisement with no option of skipping to see this video.

I am glad SOMEONE finally understands how I feel about DVDs! Not just widescreens I hate about, but how the menus piss me off and other stuff he covered. And another thing, VHS are more economical and don't break so easily as DVDs and they last longer! Awesome way to put it that new technologies make our lives more miserable. LOL

Hello, I totally agree with most of that ... until I found out a hax

For you see, to skip all the retarded advertisements do the following:

Ad appears, You press Stop, hit root menu, SUCCESS!!!
and you can not skip 20th century thingy but you can fast forward through it :)

hope this helps and saves time

I totaly agree that's bullshit!

Region locking is the reason I use a region-free DVD player.
However I do think it's bullshit that some companies prefer closed captioning over subtitles instead of all of them just including subtitles for the hard of hearing.
Not that big of a deal for American TVs, but in the PAL regions this just doesn't function with DVD players. Just television, and that's it.
As one who tends to import Region 1 DVDs this isn't exactly a pleasant aspect to it.

Then again, all the regional differences between formats are just stupid anyway.
I can't stand how even with Blu-Ray, people still have to deal with region locking anyway.
It presents the perfect opportunity to make one disc for the entire world to play back, regardless of picture format and frequencies like in the PAL/NTSC DVD differences.
But no. Fox and Disney still seem to keep to it, likely other corporations as well.
What a waste of money and time.
It could find a place everywhere if it were kept region-free.

i agree, dvds are bullshit

So that's why I download

You what's even more bullshit?!?!?!?!?!?

When those who release the DVD takes away one or two scenes.

That happened to my DVD of The Shining. I've seen it more than once on TV before i bought it on DVD and the DVD version lacks 4-5 scenes compared the original version! Why in the holy satanic mother of fuck did they feel like they had to do such a thing, especially when talking about a film by Stanley Kubrick!! It's a disgrace! It ass-fucks my mind whenever i think about... in fact, i'm worried that all the other Kubrick films that i happen to own might have the same problem...

Now that I know James owns the Bond series (like any good movie fan should), I'm patiently awaiting a Monster Madness-style review marathon of all the films.

... Still waiting.

...

You know what buuuuuulllshit?!? Blu-Ray combo packs. You know, the ones with the Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy. If I'm buying the Blu-Ray to watch on my BD player & HDTV, why the fuck would I want the dvd and why the fuck would I want to watch the movie on my computer or ipod. Plus they advertise it as a 4 disc special edition, even though two of the discs are worthless. What's really bullshit is that they release a single disc version, but you don't get any of the extra features, so if you want those features you have to buy the stupid combo pack that cost 3 times as much. That's bullshit.

Don't copy our disk please! just what someone who bought the film wants to see, irony is that the copied(rips) do not have the do not copy our disk shit on it :D

I also hate that you have to watch logos ( Warner Bros. etc.). However, I have had luck using the skip chapter button when the menu button wouldn't work.

i personally don't like when they sell a dvd saying it has deleted scenes added and they're not there (ace ventura) and the only time you see those scenes (bar scene) is when you watch it on t.v. (fox).

why can't they have two disc. one beging the theatrical release and the other being the full movie with deleted scenes included where they should have been in the movie.

They dont only force you to watch the ads, they force you to watch the security notes at the begining. Nobody reads them, they dont give you enough time to read them anyway, so why have them? And why force you to watch them? Also, if you dont have a menu button, you have to skip through all the ads at the begining, then pause before you can skip through the next one. And on DVDs like Julie and Julia, they have litterally 30 minutes of ads in the begining. I'm not even joking, 30 minutes...

You also made a great point about bond, but your always going to be fucked with a bond box set because as soon as they release another movie they release a new set. anyway what order do you put them in, i cant think of any other series of films with so many continuity issues. where do you put casino royal and quantum of solace their the last films but their prequels also they supposed to be part of a trilogy but the third as been shelved, then you've got never say never again which is a remake of thunderball where do put that in order!.

You hit on a lot of points here, but there's three others that really annoy me:
1. I hated the blu-ray ads at the start of my dvds but i could live with them, but what really annoys me is that now i have a blu-ray player they still put the blu-ray advert at the start of blu-ray movies WTF!!!!
2. why cant they put the year of release on all the movies cases, it's on some but not others.
3. sometimes when you listen to dvd's through standard 2 ch tv speakers the voices can be hard to hear because it's recorded in 5.1, some movies have the option of switching to 2.0 sound but not all of them do.

James' totally right! It is terrible to have ads at the beginning of the dvd and actually I also hate HAVING ADS AT THE BEGINNING OF VIDEOS IN THIS VERY SITE!!!!
But I can handle it, I mean they are commercials, they are done to make you buy stuff and in the case of this site they give James and Co. some money, so they deserve it, it's ok.
What's reaaaaaal bullshit is to have scenes of the movie I'm about to watch right before the menu screen! It makes no sense! Why do you have to show me them! It's not advertising, I already bought the movie! Fuck you!

Missed my biggest annoyance: why don't DVD menus time out? Nothing is more annoying than falling asleep during a movie and waking up to the James Bond theme on repeat.

I hate having to search for the run time.

Good thing they at least threw away region coding for PS3 games.
Ive once bought a 2D fighting game collection for ps2 (all on one disc).
And the bastard wouldnt play on my PAL ps2, thanks a lot for wasting my money.
And why not releas the game outside of japan? THAT BULLSHIT TOO!

bullshittyer.... nice lol

I don't really have a problem with previews before a movie it's sometimes useful. What is worse is those public announcements saying you shouldn't steal movies and these are as long as a preview. They make me want to download the movie the next time so that my movie starts right at the beginning, no bullshit.

I hate DVDs, long live the VHS!!!!

http://www.vizzed.com/vizzedboard/index.php?ref=65...

I HATE when I buy a new DVD and there are NO scratches on it and you think okay it will play flawlessly, then between chapters it freezes for a second then continues. It's like the DVD company that burned the movie on the disc fucked up when processing it! THAT'S bullshit!

A year ago, I bought the entire series of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The menu consisted of a menu containing the four episodes of the disc, and that was it. I'd like the option to play all, if I want it.

Not to mention that, but in that box set, each season's menu varies from listing the episodes from left to right to top to bottom. Sometimes you end up watching them out of order.

Fu**ing region codes!
It's difficult enough anyway to get uncut movies (luckily the UK most of the time don't cut away the good stuff without sense), importing from the US is a gamble but then it won't even work on my DVD-Player (well, it's high-time I get an NTSC-machine anyway. Oh, there's the next bullshit! Voltage converter, adapters for the power adapter, incompetent electronic salesmen with stupid facial expressions if you try to get all those things...).

As for DVDs not restarting were they were shut off... my old player (loyal friend since 2001) does that, even if I remove the disc and watch another DVD.

So, I don't know much about technology, but maybe this really depends on the hardware. Or how the hardware feels like.