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I have two like this so far and it's annoying.
BATMAN is like this and it's especially irritating because you must engage the commentary by Tim Burton while the movie is playing and then must go back to hear what you've missed, granted it's only a few seconds but I still freakin' hate it.
I also have the remake of
Friday the 13th and in that case I couldn't tell which version I was watching because there was no menu to choose a version from, it took me a few minutes to realize that it defaults to the 'Killer Cut'. It couldn't even tell you on the back of the case.
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I just feel that menus on DVD's and BD's was invented because it was a good idea and still is.
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TonyD 
Trend?
Warners has been doing that since way back in the days of dvd.
I prefer this to what many studios do and that's have a bunch of ads and fbi warnings and other junk that can't be ff through.
Yes but there was a menu that could accessed by pressing menu.
It's the absence of any kind of menu that I object to, not really that the film starts immediately.
And yes, trying to start the film on the
T2: Skynet Edition is a tremendous pain in the ass.
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the only title that I have.. from warner bros that does indeed include a main menu.. is the star wars: the clone wars animated movie. which was a big surprise because most or all of the warner bros just start up at the beginning with the movie.
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I can't watch the movie either way (have to set up the subtitles) but Warner's option of immediately starting the movie has advantages of it's own. It's at least better than Disney's option: multiple trailers, a slowly loading menu and a Blu-ray video before the movie can actually start. I'll take a movie that starts right away (except for a pause in the beginning) any day.
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Brian Borst
I can't watch the movie either way (have to set up the subtitles) but Warner's option of immediately starting the movie has advantages of it's own. It's at least better than Disney's option: multiple trailers, a slowly loading menu and a Blu-ray video before the movie can actually start. I'll take a movie that starts right away (except for a pause in the beginning) any day.
I completely agree. I wish Disney would get on board.
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Personally, I like the discs that default to a menu...it allows you to pop in the disc and just let it start up while you go grab a chair or popcorn or whatever, rather than having to wait there (or worse, rush back) as the movie starts automatically and then pause it. But it is a personal choice, and I have no real huge beef with the movie starting automatically.
What I really miss are the inventive menu screens that some discs have. I realize it must cost more money/more time to program and create such menus, but they really make the experience something special. The Alien Legacy box set (before the Quadrilogy) is superior to the latter set only for the menus, which are really fun. On the flip side of that, of course, are the menus that try to be too showy and flashy and end up being annoying to navigate...
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Warners should be applauded for starting the film directly without out all those menus getting in the way. I get the BD to see the film not menus and I hope other studios follow Warners example. You can always bring up the menu as set out above if you need it.
I'll applaud them
if-and-when they've
not only addressed the default soundtrack issue for future releases,
but have also done it for already released titles so I don't keep having to wonder if I'm rewatching a Warner title that needs the audio changed. That issue still peeves me a bit at times whenever I rewatch an older DVD (and don't want to have to look it up, etc. etc. first). :f And yes, you read me right. I do mean they should try to fix the default issue for old releases too considering the format has more capability to allow something like that now (than DVD ever did). Either that or it'd be great if player makers can offer new players (and firmware updates for old ones) that allow us to override the authoring on those old titles so we don't need to continue to remember to do it manually for them (like I do w/ older DVDs).
Another related problem w/ BD autostart that's worse than DVD is all the non-standard ways menus, etc. are authored now. This default-and-auto-start issue is just not limited to the soundtrack (and subtitles), but also to alternate versions of the film on the same disc, if/when that's offered. I still remember not being sure which version of I Am Legend got autostarted when I watched it the first time partly because I hadn't gotten used to Warner's approach to BD menu design yet -- and I still can't say I'm all that used to them, especially for picking alternate versions of a film...
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Carlo Medina
I don't mind not defaulting to a menu, but what I can't stand is when a BD automatically starts into the movie and
doesn't default into the highest bit rate audio track!
Too often WB BDs start on Dolby Digital 448 or 640kbps rather than with the Dolby TrueHD track.
They made the intelligent choice of having their BDs start with an audio track that they know the player can play back, and not risk people returning the movie because "the sound doesn't work". I can't help but feel that their new philosophy will bite them on the ass soon...
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