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

Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

<snippo>

>Maybe you missed the context: this was an opened disk that was not 
>defective, in the sense that it played exactly as Universal 
>intended. The OP and I might consider it defective because it has 
>unskippable commercials; my question (which your experience doesn't 
>answer) is whether Costco, or any retailer, would also consider it 
>defective for that reason alone.

I once returned the flipper version of /Se7en/ to Suncoast on the
basis that /any/ two hour film that has to be flipped in the middle
is, by definition, defective. It may have helped that its status as a
flipper was not stated on the box. (New Line's excuse when asked was
that dual-layer technology was new when it was produced so they chose
to do two one-layer sides instead. They eventually came out with a
two-disk version with the movie on one side of one disk.) 

If everyone who bought a copy of /Bruce Almighty/ tried to return it
for a refund because of the commercials, a retail store might complain
to the distributor and/or manufacturer  (and stop selling that title)
simply because of the time required to deal with their dissatisfied
customers even if they did not actually take them back. If enough
stores/distrubutors refused to carry it because of the commercials the
manufacturer might adopt a different approach with other films. 

On the other hand, if no one complains, the manufacturer can feel free
to do this to any film in the future.
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