Is this the most useless feature of a DVD? (1 Viewer)

[Thomas Newton]

Let's not be so narrow-minded. Multiple angles, while it be useless on pre-composed movies, is not completely useless. I've seen some great discs of live performances that use the multiple angle feature amazingly.

Audio CDs once had a concept called "index codes", the idea being that you could have quick-access spots within a track. This was supposed to be beneficial for classical music, but CD player makers and record companies started to leave out index code support, and this continued in a downwards spiral to the feature's virtual extinction.

Multiple angles strikes me as a feature likely to go the same way. I don't have anything against it. I just wonder if it has enough "critical mass" to survive.

 

[Jon Smith]

may sound stupid, but some people dont even know how to use the menus on DVDs.

i put on a DVD for my mum the other day and she didnt even know how to start it, so i had to press Play for her, and also skip chapters when she resumed.

 

[GregK]

1) Long overdone menus that one has to wait for before the "play" option even becomes available. Ditto for other forced intros and pre-show swill.
2) Pan-n-scan
3) Menus and intros that are LOUDER than the movie itself.
(OK, more of a complaint than a useless feature.)
On the subject of screensavers and such, how about a DVD
that is instructed to go the STOP position after a film is over? (At least for kid oriented DVDs) ...I don't know how many times I've found a disc playing the main menu over and over after one of my family members watched a film...