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I watch quite a few DVDs (but I don't watch any television).
The thing that annoys me is all the crap they put in before the thing starts.
We get told who the distributor is, we get told (usually twice) that the FBI will come after us if we copy the DVD, which is odd 'cos the FBI doesn't operate in New Zealand so I guess it's okay to copy... okay I won't anyway.
Then they want to tell me about other movies I might want to see and that goes on and on. Sure I have a skip button, it's getting worn out and we're still not at the first menu.
Once I hit the play on the main menu I get told the distributor (again) then some short clips which are more branding from production companies, then the titles start which tell me (again) about those production companies and (sigh) sometime around then the movie starts.
It's like the old days when you turn on the TV and wait five minutes for it to warm up (the kids won't remember that but some of you guys remember the '60s). The previews of other movies are the things that bug me most. They ought to go into the extras or left out altogether. We buy DVDs 'cos we want to watch them again and again so some of them are a few years old now and the 'new' movies they preview sank without trace long ago.
Oh, and then sometimes the menus are just too darn clever. The best/worst example I know of is Spooks season 1 (called MI5 in the US I think) and that had quite a puzzle to figure out how to play an episode. Supposedly we were being spy-like and solving the puzzle. I'd rather just watch the thing.
Okay, first world problems I guess.
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