DVDs: They’re bullsh*t.
1. They are so damn expensive. Where I live, they start at $10. That’s the same price as the most expensive ticket in the most expensive cinema. Of course, there are always local stores that also sell crap DVDs for $3 with movies not worth even $0.01 (actors you’ve never heard of, production companies who have not made a single decent film, jokes so cheesy, you think you are in a cheese factory, acting so bad you could do it better yourself with no acting lessons and video quality so horrible, a youtube video from 2006 would look better).
2. They have the anti-piracy ads on them and they are so long and you can’t skip them! What the ****?
That’s what you get for BUYING the movie. I BOUGHT THE DAMN THING AND IT STILL SHOWS ME THE ****ING “DON’T STEAL MOVIES” BULL****! What? A person, who BUYS the film, BUYS it, should not see such a thing. They obviously BUY their films, not download them.
3. They have regular ads on them! I have to sit through a cheap, useless ad about a product I don’t give a flying **** about. And if you try to skip them, they start all over again.
I paid for the damn thing. I PAID for it. Why do I have to sit through a useless bunch of ****, if I paid for the damn thing.
4. Oh, and then there’s the logos in the beginning. You can’t skip them. If you skip them, it’s the same thing as with the Ads. What a bunch of ****. I don’t care who made the film, I just care if the film is good and in decent quality audio and video.
5. Region coding. What the ****? If I bought the DVD when I was on a trip, BOUGHT it there, then why the HELL can’t I watch it home? Because some corporate b****a** says I can’t? **** you. I paid for the damn thing. Why do they have to be such a bunch of ****heads.
6. Translations. I don’t need them, but the translations are always off. The jokes always seem to go missing somehow and I’ve seen things that make sense in English and make a good joke, being literally translated into my language, where people haven’t got the faintest idea of what’s going on.
7. Subtitles. Even though I don’t need them, they are sometimes hardcoded. Oh, they are a real pain in the *** when you have an HDTV. Those damn subtitles are always, ALWAYS somewhere when watched with a widescreen (HD) TV, you either see nothing, the first row, a half of the first row OR a half of the second row, because they are on the wrong part of the video.
Can’t they just put it ON the video OR fully on the black letterbox bar below the video?
This is also a pain in the *** when I am watching local TV channels, which, apart from one and all the HD channels, are narrow-screen (non-widescreen).
8. The fullscreen/widescreen versions of the movie. This really pisses me off. Can anyone name ONE reason the fullscreen one exists? I sure can’t. Unless you are looking for the widescreen one in the store, you will automatically pick the wrong one.
This really pisses me off as I use a widescreen TV, so the fullscreen ones are unbearable to watch. And if you crop it or change the aspect ratio, it will either be zoomed in so much you can’t tell or people will look like ****ing hippos.
9. You can’t import it into your digital movie library. Come on, if it’s doable with CDs, why can’t we do it with DVDs? Because some people rip the DVDs and post them on the internet or make pirated physical copies of them?
Those guys will always find a way, there’s just no point in punishing us, the consumers!
I want to watch it digitally. I don’t want to take a box out of my shelf, take a disc out of it, put the disc in a tray, wait for the damn thing to load, wait some more for the ads and logos, select play from the menu screen, watch a few more logos… That’s horrible! I want to press a few buttons on my remote and play the damn thing from my huge external HDD!
10. The quality sucks. I mean, seriously. The video quality ****ing sucks. I have tens of DVDs, but JUST ONE has a quality that is at least watchable on my TV. And that movie kind of sucks. Youtube HQ (NOT EVEN HD) quality is BETTER than most DVDs have!
And most of it is true also for blu-ray discs, too.
Why am I being punished for BUYING the movie? I did not pirate it, I did not steal it. I paid money for it.
