Poll: What's the most annoying form of advertising?

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kcmurphy88 @ Jun 6th 2008 12:24PM

Watched National Treasure 2 on Blu-ray the other night. Even hitting chapter skip through the many many previews it took 5 minutes to get to the film. Gdd only knows how long it would have taken if I didn't know to hit channel skip. "Menu" was non-functional.

Are these people crazy? Have they not hear of Keep It Simple, Stupid?

(Side note: Blu-ray really needs to standardize the menu/audio/video controls. Every studio, and seemingly every player maker, does it differently.)

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Slappy Wag @ Jun 6th 2008 1:46PM

You assume that these "people" see you as anything other than a dollar sign. They don't give a flying F about you. You already bought the movie. What do they care? They have your money. Until average Joe Consumer stops buying their crap, it keeps making them money, so they keep doing what works. This is why you should never do any business with companies that have their ads showing up on popups. If popups keep working, they will remain.

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EQC @ Jun 6th 2008 2:05PM

"You already bought the movie. What do they care? They have your money."

Even worse...because of the big "piracy" scare, you're not allowed to return DVD's/Blu-ray disks. So even if they filled the whole disk with unskippable ads, and put commercials throughout the movie, you'd have no way to get your money back.

As suggested, things won't get better until average Joe stops buying...but average joe wants what he wants, and he keeps buying almost no matter what. If something is too expensive or of low quality, average joe buys it and just complains about it...which doesn't send the right message to the manufacturer. Somebody needs to turn average joe into a better consumer...

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ChiWax @ Jun 8th 2008 12:39AM

I believe they refer to the different menus as "part of the fun" of Blu-Ray. Q.

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