Disney treads in dangerous waters
from the I-like-previews,-but-give-me-a-break dept
Disney is forcing owners of the Tarzan DVD to sit through minutes of previews with no way to skip them. As a Disney shareholder, I'm all for the marketing technique. As a consumer, however, there is no excuse for this type of behavior. If I can skip the previews on a VHS tape, I should be able to skip them on a DVD.
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not worse than VHS
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What's the quality like?
Pity, I liked 101 Dalmations...
Jon
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Psha......disney
Any wayz.....
You can fast forward.....true, but 4 mins of commercials, that is 240 seconds....at 4x speed, that is still 60 seconds of commercials going buy w/o audio. ....arg. No thx. I have not yet seen it....and now I dont want to. FBI is cool, they let me live. :] and I have memorized their warning.... [if you have a cool dvd that does 8x...that is 30 secs of 'frames'. bummer]
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