Question...

[FM-77]

But the "FBI Warning" screens with the colorcycling background from the Betamax and VHS days are classic. Beta was the shit.

At least you could fast-forward through those screens. On DVDs, you are forced to watch them, and they're usually displayed for a very long time. Definitely a great annoyance, at least to me. Sometimes you even have to watch the ads in the beginning of the DVD. Those bastards!

[SuperDeadite]

But the "FBI Warning" screens with the colorcycling background from the Betamax and VHS days are classic. Beta was the shit.

At least you could fast-forward through those screens. On DVDs, you are forced to watch them, and they're usually displayed for a very long time. Definitely a great annoyance, at least to me. Sometimes you even have to watch the ads in the beginning of the DVD. Those bastards!

Yeah, there is no excuse to show unskippable previews when a DVD boots up.  If they made special "rental only" DVDs then I could understand the reasons, but paying $30 for a movie that forces you to watch advertisements every single time is simply unacceptable.  They should be stuck in the extras menu and nowhere else.

[Turbo D]

Ya seriously, I hate that.

[Keranu]

Laserdisc FTW. 

The redardation is spreading.

I'm disappointed in you, K. 

lol w/e

[Joe Redifer]

If you come across DVDs with unskippable menus or previews where pressing the "menu" button doesn't work, try this:

Press the "Chapter Forward Skip" button, or

If that fails, try fast forwarding normally to make it quicker.

A lot of times this works, but it doesn't with Paramount DVDs.  It can also help you skip animated menu intros and outros. Usually when I see the menu pop up and start showing scenes from the movie which I have not yet viewed (I hate that) I just press "Menu" and it goes right to the real menu where I can make my selections.  After I press play I skip the outro with the button.

[Kitsunexus]

If you come across DVDs with unskippable menus or previews where pressing the "menu" button doesn't work, try this:

[TR0N]

If you come across DVDs with unskippable menus or previews where pressing the "menu" button doesn't work, try this:

Some times i want to do that on a universal dvd.

They, have been pretty bad when forceing you to watch there previews 

[Joe Redifer]

I don't think I've ever been forced to watch any trailers/previews on any DVD.  Got any examples of titles that do this?

[MrFulci]

What Joe said; If pressing menu doesn't work, chapter skip, nothing there, fast forward.

There are certain DVD players that will skip through this mess pretty much no matter what. I've seen DVD players advertised in that they make it so you can skip through "unskippable" preview stuff.

Never encountered previews I've been forced to watch. When previews appear, and pressing menu does nothing, I skip through them of fast forward.

If I know ahead of time a disc has some unskippable advertisement, I load the dvd, get something to drink, etc. By the time I'm back the DVD is at the menu.

[Hobo Xiphas]

I don't know how the hell I know this since I hardly ever watch DVDs, but I believe Disney DVDs are notorious for doing the no-skip thing.

[GUTS]

Yes I have some disney DVDs that are very irritating like that.  Makes me mad I bought them instead of pirating them.

[gundarN]

There are a lot of UK DVD's with unskippable crap on them. It's amazingly frustrating. I wonder if it's worse here than the US?