Plug and play customisation

[the_s_guy]

You know what would be useful? A program for PCs and digital media boxes which identified an inserted DVD (CD, Bluray disc, other media source) and only played a user-chosen subset of its content. Automatically skip past intros, trailers, commercials, FBI warnings, "did you know you can download this" scare-skits, and any parts of the movie you

Comments

[dvandom]

I can imagine the various media producers doing everything in their power to make such a thing illegal. :)

[the_s_guy]

Oh, no doubt. Of course, a preprepared media approach which pointed out the greatness of only watching what YOU wanted to watch, and (to the lawmakers) how it was not only equivalent to sitting on the couch punching buttons on the remote, but did every lawmaker's kids and grandkids sit quietly watching the screen through every FBI warning on every disc EVERY time they played it, hmm?

I suspect that a donation of a bunch of hacked DVD players to existing politicians' offices - or their families - in the months beforehand might help them make the right decision. Who wants their under-five granddaughter to cry because Spongebob now takes three whole minutes to come up on the screen when she's been used to instant access? Who wants to have to sit through their own classic movie collections' endless pre-movie guff when they've been used to just slipping in a disc and sitting back?