Re: Disney: Blu-ray Needs Lower Player Prices

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> On Sun, 11 May 2008 18:12:08 -0700 Bill's News <billsnews@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> | Side note:
> | It seems to me that, in the recent month or two - others chime 
> | in if I'm wrong here - some Blu-Ray discs I've played get to the 
> | main menu much more quickly, immediately following the logo. 
> | And some skip the menu entirely, leaving it up to me to invoke 
> | it from the remote.  I can not FF through the $250,000 and/or 5 
> | year warning preceding the movie, but that's it - then the 
> | movie.  Oh, there are still those BD discs that also provide 
> | additional inane legalese in a variety of languages and others 
> | which still play commercials before the menu, but I may be 
> | favoring the few studios which get down to the business of 
> | playing the movie most quickly - without even paying attention 
> | to which studio(s) that may be.  I think one of these nicer 
> | discs was from Universal?
> 
> I've been seeing a number of discs that no longer have an FBI warning. 
Maybe
> the laws are strong enough now that they feel they don't need to make
sure
> people are notified about it; everyone should know by now.  That, and it
is
> harder to copy (many DVD recorders will refuse to record from a playback
of
> another copy protected DVD).
> 

I find it funny that they have them anyway.  My understanding of law is 
that you can break a law and not use the defense that you didn't know 
the law was in existence.  So this FBI warning amounts to just scare 
tactics at best.