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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    Glenn, 6 Mar 2000 @ 12:16pm

    not worse than VHS

    According to the article, you can still fast forward through the commercials, just like VHS... they just don't give you the menu option to completely skip the stuff.

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    Jon Acheson, 7 Mar 2000 @ 10:38am

    What's the quality like?

    I've heard many bad things about Disney's DVDs for their older films like 101 Dalmations. Image quality is inferior for a DVD, supposedly (like they encoded from a VHS master).

    Pity, I liked 101 Dalmations...

    Jon

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    Mr.White, 7 Mar 2000 @ 3:18pm

    Psha......disney

    Disney sux. They *were* cool, aladin, little mermaids [do they clean?].
    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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