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More Freedom for DVD Players?

Posted by samzenpus on from the don't-look-now dept.

weopenlatest writes "According to this Wired article, the House just passed a bill allowing DVD players to skip through programming. While the article stressed using this ability for parental controls, it would seem like it would also apply to annoying previews and ads that load automatically. Could this be a step in the right direction towards uncrippled DVD players?"

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  1. Here's Hoping by ColaMan · · Score: 0, Troll

    Non-skippable playback is one of the most annoying "features" of DVD.
    It's like the marketing-droids went, "Hey! this *random access* optical disk, lets deliberately cripple it! And,and ... we'll make it so that there's no way to tell if you've sat through it before, so we'll make you sit through it every time!! Yeah!!"

    Fuckers, fuckers, fuckers.

    Anyway, see my previous post on my personal solution to the matter.

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