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Originally Posted by kutulu
I'm not trying to flame but that makes you look like a jackass to the person where you bought the DVD. Venting to them is pointless, even if you actually get to speak to the district manager. They sell the product, they don't make it. They have no control over what is in the product. There is no reason why they shouldn't sell the latest blockbuster movie just because the MANUFACTURER put a couple of ads in it. You could save yourself a lot of time and frustration by just buying a DVD burner, Nero, and downloading DVDShrink. In 30 min you can re-author your DVD so that it only includes the movie. No trailers, no bs. You stick the movie in and it plays immediately. As a bonus you can always make a second backup if the first backup gets scratched. As expensive as DVDs are you should backup all your movies anyways.
Regarding 'pay tv' are you referring to HBO, Showtime, etc or Comedy Central, CNN, TBS, etc.? If it's the latter than you really need to educate yourself on how cable tv works. The cable networks don't make enough to live off the subscription fees. Without the ads your cable bill would be a LOT larger.
Like it or not advertising subsidizes the costs of many things (however they get you back when you buy the product). We wouldn't have TV, radio, and most websites without advertising. If you have that much of a problem with it buy only generic label items. That way you get the subsidized costs without having to pay the advertiser back.
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To address your points, I have gone back to complain about 2 dvds. Once to Blockbuster (no luck) once to Rogers, who were gracious, apologetic, and offered to exchange for any other first run selection. they even let me check an opened copy before I took it. Now I ask before i purchase.
As for a dvd burner? i just got a cd burner installed in my computer (last april) and that was a major undertaking. After rebooting to start up, the machine went into safe mode, and i could not recover. I had to take the whole thing to a shop, to have them back up the data, and re-install the operating system. so while I appreciate the advice, I'm not about to go messing around with expensive dvd burners (i know, they've come down in price, but when the cd burner was $40 i bought it - hopefully byu the time i upgrade my P3, dvd burners will be part of the configuration)
With respect the Pay TV, I was refereing to my first experience (superchanel and first choice) which were fine until they brought on commercials, then jacked up the price. Cable for me costs $42/month, and that includes all the chanels up to Much Music, including CNN, TBS. HBO is not offered. I don;'t think i need to educate myself in this respect (near flame there) The business model for Pay TV has already incorporated subscription as the vehicle for finance. The addition of advertisers is the classic bait n switch, model of what ever the market will bear.