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Unskippable commercials on DVD? What did I miss?
Oh yeah 100%. Old DVDs had ads that were unskippable, which played before you got to the DVD’s home menu. Usually just ads for other movies that were coming up around the same time the DVD landed. You could usually get around them by hitting Stop twice and then Play to get to the main DVD menu, but not always.
UNLESS you buy the dvd or Blu-ray from the UK. I found that out when I bought the UK version of a movie and when I put the disc in... The movie just fucking started. No earnings, no ads, no features, no menu. Just... Movie.
Wow, I don't even remember that. I've been playing DVDs on a computer basically forever, which rarely obeyed such restrictions...
I remember this as a kid, where (usually a Disney DVD) would have 2x 3 minute trailers, before you even got to the main menu, for other movies and if you tried to hit Next Chapter it would just spit back "Unable to do this at this time".
Sometimes you might bypass it by hitting Root Menu if your DVD player remote had it, but yes very frustrating.
If you had unskippable commercials on dvds, you probably missed pirated dvd stores like this one: