Re: Bruce Almighty unable to skip previews at start of dvd

Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> In article 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in 
> rec.video.dvd.titles, JohnnyBoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >What the hell!  I just put in the Bruce Almighty dvd.  Right at the start of
> >the dvd they have trailers for other movies.  Other then fast forwarding, I
> >was unable to skip those trailers.  Needless to say I was very pissed off.
> >I went to universalstudios.com and gave them a piece of my mind.  What a
> >bunch of #@&* control freaks.  Damn, like I bought the dvd.  It should be my
> >choice whether or not I want to view the trailers.
> 
> Others in the past have said to use "Stop" as soon as the disk 
> loads, then "Menu". Does this not work on this disk? (Even if it 
> works, I still agree that the automatic ads are bad. I'm just 
> curious whether Universal has escalated this abomination to the next 
> level.)
> 
> >I'm sooo close to returning the dvd to Costco without ever seen the movie.
> 
> If you do, please let us know what happens. While I agree with you 
> that this is unacceptable, I'd be surprised if a retailer agrees and 
> takes back an opened disk.

Which region? I have region 2 and just press "menu" when the trailers
start. No problems -goes straight to the menu.

Ollie