Pet Peeve o’ the week
I have two DVD-specific rants. One, concerning the technology itself, where the designers have prohibited you from going directly to the menu and you can’t reauthor the DVD because of that egregious violation of our fair use rights known as the DMCA.
But today… today we’re going to talk about something else: DVDs for television series that do not place their chapter marks right after the opening credits. Yeah, I’m talking to you Stargate SG-1 and The Wire (and the early seasons of The Sopranos). After you’ve seen the credits once, do you really need to keep on seeing the menus the next 12-21 times you watch the series? And you can’t even find out that the chapter points are set at ass-random times until after it’s too late.
So here’s to you, underthinking DVD designers! Give us freakin’ appropriately-placed chapter points.
Oh yeah, and another thing, the DVD people who are putting only 2 episodes per DVD like, oh The Wire, designers… you’re severely cramping our Netflix enjoyment/throughput (well, the throughput would be fine-ish if they didn’t throttle our service).
