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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    Glenn, Mar 6th, 2000 @ 12:16pm

    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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    What's the quality like?

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    Jon Acheson, Mar 7th, 2000 @ 10:38am

    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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    Psha......disney

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

    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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