I think this whole sway toward unskippable ads/promos/trailers at the top of a DVD is the reason I just can't bring myself to replace my old Afreey (rebadged Sampo) DVD player I bought years ago.
Thanks to a firmware hacking project for old Sampo players, I've been able to re-flash it to allow me simply to press Menu or Skip-> to go right from the warning at the top of the Parade of Annoyance to the DVD's main menu.
There really shouldn't be any reason this should not be allowed in all DVD players. Back in the days of VHS, we had a wicked button called FFW to make the bad things go away; last I checked, it didn't kill the video rental business.
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... which you can manually stop them from doing by disabling typo corrections in settings.
I think this whole sway toward unskippable ads/promos/trailers at the top of a DVD is the reason I just can't bring myself to replace my old Afreey (rebadged Sampo) DVD player I bought years ago.
Thanks to a firmware hacking project for old Sampo players, I've been able to re-flash it to allow me simply to press Menu or Skip-> to go right from the warning at the top of the Parade of Annoyance to the DVD's main menu.
There really shouldn't be any reason this should not be allowed in all DVD players. Back in the days of VHS, we had a wicked button called FFW to make the bad things go away; last I checked, it didn't kill the video rental business.