Bigarbel wrote:

Some of my Region 3 DVD's have some trailers you can't skip,

Quite a lot of DVDs have either copyright notices, production logos or
trailers before the film. The first two generally are flagged as "must
show" with a view to preventing you from fast forwarding or chapter
skipping past them. However, not all DVD players respect that flag,
just as they don't respect region coding. I have a Yamada Chinese one
(multi-region from the factory) that will happily skip past all these
screens using the chapter forward button. I have a second from Toshiba
(multi-region via hacked firmware) that will not.

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PLEASE.co.uk says...
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 00:37:21 -0000, "The Wizard"
wrote:

For Sky+ users anyway:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3256945.stm

*Some have pointed out that fast-forwarding through the ads at the start of
a DVD now contravenes the law. And using a file-sharing service is an
infringement, although one that, as yet, is likely to go unpunished.*

Does anybody have any DVDs with ads at the start? I'm pretty sure I
don't...

Some of the new Fox ones do. You can fast-forward them, but beforehand there's
an interminable "This product is not for rental" piece which you can't ffwd
and is a royal pain.
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In uk.media.tv.sky on Thu, 13 Nov 2003 at 21:06:08, Dom Robinson wrote :

Does anybody have any DVDs with ads at the start? I'm pretty sure I
don't...

Some of the new Fox ones do. You can fast-forward them, but beforehand there's
an interminable "This product is not for rental" piece which you can't ffwd
and is a royal pain.

These notices are pretty pointless anyway - those intending to pirate
the DVD will ignore them, and those who wouldn't are just ****ed off by
them.

I'm assuming the warnings are a legal requirement, so why not just put
them at the end? That way the copyright owners asses are covered, but
they don't **** off customers because they can just be skipped.
--
Paul 'US Sitcom Fan' Hyett

Dom Robinson wrote:

You can fast-forward them, but beforehand there's
an interminable "This product is not for rental" piece which you can't ffwd
and is a royal pain.

As I said, you can skip through these if you have the right machine.
One of my players does this.

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wrote:

Which particular model is it,

A DVD-2100.


or are all Yamadas like this?

I don't know.

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In article , Charlie Pearce
writes
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 00:37:21 -0000, "The Wizard"
wrote:

For Sky+ users anyway:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3256945.stm

*Some have pointed out that fast-forwarding through the ads at the start of
a DVD now contravenes the law. And using a file-sharing service is an
infringement, although one that, as yet, is likely to go unpunished.*

Does anybody have any DVDs with ads at the start? I'm pretty sure I
don't...
The R1 Hulk has trailers that run at the start, you can't go to the menu
or chapter skip them, all you can do is FF through them.
--
Sean Black

In article , says...
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 08:17:04 GMT, Jomtien wrote:

Bigarbel wrote:

Some of my Region 3 DVD's have some trailers you can't skip,

Quite a lot of DVDs have either copyright notices, production logos or
trailers before the film. The first two generally are flagged as "must
show" with a view to preventing you from fast forwarding or chapter
skipping past them. However, not all DVD players respect that flag,
just as they don't respect region coding. I have a Yamada Chinese one
(multi-region from the factory) that will happily skip past all these
screens using the chapter forward button. I have a second from Toshiba
(multi-region via hacked firmware) that will not.

Priceless. Which particular model is it, or are all Yamadas like this?
I get so ****ed off with fbi warnings and other crap I may well be
inclined to dump my expensive Toshiba for one of these.

I bought the Pacific DVD1001 for my Mum for Xmas. It cost £35 from Asda.
Cracking picture. Not sure which multi-region hack worked for it as I tried a
couple and no discs would play at all for 30 mins or so (realised I should've
let it warm up), so I put in the DVD750 and DVD1002 hacks into it (from DVD
Reviewer's website, www.dvd.reviewer.co.uk ) and it works.
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