Jeremy Clarkson suspended by BBC...

[Pesty]

Clarkson has lost a ton of timber

[Halb]

Funk said:

This deliberate nuking of interoperability is what makes piracy so appealing, even excluding the fact it's free. I've lost count of the times I've been infuriated having to watch unskippable crap on the front of DVDs including adverts and - oh the irony! - anti-piracy ads and warnings... All I need to do is get an .mkv file and it'll play on almost anything I own - and if it won't, there's a way to stream it.

I rarely buy DVDs, but the adverts at the start that are not skippable are disgraceful.
Piracy will flourish so long as the companies act like dicks.

[Motorrad]

Halb said:

I rarely buy DVDs, but the adverts at the start that are not skippable are disgraceful.
Piracy will flourish so long as the companies act like dicks.

I can't believe they actually do that!

Haven't bought a DVD since the 90s. I can't believe people actually buy something and are then forced to watch a fecking advert. Seems as much of a liberty as those fks at SKY who charge a fortune to watch their bullst channels and then fill them full of adverts.

No wonder people card share. s.

[qube_TA]

Bluray Disc is the worst, some take 10 minutes before the programme/film will start due to all the silly ads and whatnot. Usually accompanied by a trailer that informs you how much better it'll be if you bought the thing on BD!

If you bought a CD or LP and had to listen to 5 minutes of clips from other albums you might be interested in no-one would put up with it.

[Zod]

qube_TA said:

Bluray Disc is the worst, some take 10 minutes before the programme/film will start due to all the silly ads and whatnot. Usually accompanied by a trailer that informs you how much better it'll be if you bought the thing on BD!

If you bought a CD or LP and had to listen to 5 minutes of clips from other albums you might be interested in no-one would put up with it.

Skip it all. Not difficult!

[furtive]

If I ever get a DVD or BR (almost never these days) the first thing I do is rip it and remove all that guff anyway. Don't even have a player in the lounge any more

[C.A.R.]

"You wouldn't pirate download a car"

Well, when you put it like that...

Those adverts are very frustrating. I'll admit now that I torrent films from lots of sources, within 5 minutes I can have a film on a USB stick playing in 720p or 1080p via the usb input in my telly. No messing about, no adverts. Not legal, obviously, but if the mainstream media doesn't really reflect what the public wants then it will always be a problem.

Thinking of getting a subscriber service but not really sure which yet, but if they cram them full of forced adverts then that's a major problem (I appreciate they have to make money somewhere).

[AndrewEH1]

C.A.R. said:

"You wouldn't pirate download a car"

Well, when you put it like that...

Those adverts are very frustrating. I'll admit now that I torrent films from lots of sources, within 5 minutes I can have a film on a USB stick playing in 720p or 1080p via the usb input in my telly. No messing about, no adverts. Not legal, obviously, but if the mainstream media doesn't really reflect what the public wants then it will always be a problem.

Thinking of getting a subscriber service but not really sure which yet, but if they cram them full of forced adverts then that's a major problem (I appreciate they have to make money somewhere).

I do the same to watch things via USB on my telly.

Both Netflix and Prime are advert free, or at least they were when I had them a year or so ago.

[Scuffers]

AndrewEH1 said:

I do the same to watch things via USB on my telly.

Both Netflix and Prime are advert free, or at least they were when I had them a year or so ago.

Forget USB (networking!) Plex or the like is the solution.

And yes, Netflix/Amazon are showing the way forward, IPTV is going to take over as the delivery platform, and the industry need to understand this and go with it.

Digital media rights law needs to catch up with the reality of the technology and adapt to work with it, not try to prevent it, it's a battle they can only loose.

[audidoody]

This ad offends me. Where do I complain?

[audidoody]

Slightly Off Topic - but this talk about Bluray ads has reminded me how phqueing angry I get with Easyjet who make me print out a boarding pass showing a half-page full colour ad thus sucking up expensive ink/toner.

Bah!

[Scuffers]

audidoody said:

Slightly Off Topic - but this talk about Bluray ads has reminded me how phqueing angry I get with Easyjet who make me print out a boarding pass showing a half-page full colour ad thus sucking up expensive ink/toner.

Bah!

print to file, edit out the ads, print the bare pass...

[audidoody]

Tried that. Did a screen grab. Edited out the ad. Printed to hard copy. Then bar code wouldn't scan at airport. Maybe saved at the wrong size/resolution

[hairyben]

Scuffers said:

audidoody said:

Slightly Off Topic - but this talk about Bluray ads has reminded me how phqueing angry I get with Easyjet who make me print out a boarding pass showing a half-page full colour ad thus sucking up expensive ink/toner.

Bah!

print to file, edit out the ads, print the bare pass...

or select black/grey on the printer options!

[Otispunkmeyer]

Halb said:

Funk said:

This deliberate nuking of interoperability is what makes piracy so appealing, even excluding the fact it's free. I've lost count of the times I've been infuriated having to watch unskippable crap on the front of DVDs including adverts and - oh the irony! - anti-piracy ads and warnings... All I need to do is get an .mkv file and it'll play on almost anything I own - and if it won't, there's a way to stream it.

I rarely buy DVDs, but the adverts at the start that are not skippable are disgraceful.
Piracy will flourish so long as the companies act like dicks.

Re Funks point, I think this is why Netflix is actually quite well done. They have an app that works on pretty much any platform going, the quality is good, the price is good and the content is good. So it works.

I too have been infuriated with nonsense like UltraViolet so you can watch a digital copy of the BR you just bought. Thing is to watch it you need to jump through hoops, sign up to new services and go get separate apps.....er no thanks.

Content providers like sky don't help either; when wanting to watch a movie on sky via their SkyGo service it turns out its a complete cluster fk because MS sliverlight (sliverste) is unstable to point of not being able to watch any streams on Mac OS and sky's own desktop app (that lets you down load said movie to watch) is completely broken since OS X Mountain Lion and Sky have no real intention of fixing it. So you can't do that either. I end up acquiring the video I want by other means instead.

[T o m]

hairyben said:

or select black/grey on the printer options!

Off topic even further... Download the EasyJet App.

[FourWheelDrift]

Copy it by hand, use black pens.

HTH

[qube_TA]

Zod said:

qube_TA said:

Bluray Disc is the worst, some take 10 minutes before the programme/film will start due to all the silly ads and whatnot. Usually accompanied by a trailer that informs you how much better it'll be if you bought the thing on BD!

If you bought a CD or LP and had to listen to 5 minutes of clips from other albums you might be interested in no-one would put up with it.

Skip it all. Not difficult!

Most aren't skippable, they're a bit odd as on my Sony player they're never skippable, but on the PlayStation they some times are.

But regardless, they shouldn't be there, ever, no-one wants them, a streamed or unlicensed version will just play. If a pirated copy of something ends up being a better product then it's all gone a bit wrong.

[OzzyR1]

Words from Clarkson in one of his columns via Reddit/Imgur:

http://imgur.com/a/UtmmQ

[AndrewEH1]

OzzyR1 said:

Words from Clarkson in one of his columns via Reddit/Imgur:

http://imgur.com/a/UtmmQ

Despite what everyone thinks of him he does write very good newspaper articles that anyone, whether they are interested in cars or not, can enjoy.