Commercials on DVDs
 

Got another question. Hope I'm not breaking any rules. ;)

I just bought the "High School Reunion" set that has the great John Hughes' 80s movies The Breakfast Club, Weird Science and Sixteen Candles in it.

Each DVD starts with just over three minutes of commercials - promos for the movies themselves, and some others like Animal House and some Monty Python movie.

Is there any way to skip this stuff? I couldn't find a way - I kept getting that DVD with a slash through it symbol, my player's way of telling me the disc won't let me.

I'm afraid I may not watch these because I won't want to sit through the promos.

Yes.

AS SOON AS the disc finishes loading in your player, press stop.

Then press the Menu button. The film will start playing.

Takes about two seconds. Works for most Universal discs with forced trailers.

YES! Thank you!! I just tried that, and it worked!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Signing up here has already paid off! :)

You can also fast forward through the forced Universal trailers.

Yes . . . this is known as the "Mr. Salty Technique" and has gained Mr. Salty much acclaim . . .


;)

Yep, the commercials/promos are getting old. They are shoved down our throats on cable now we are getting them on DVDs we pay for and OWN.

Eh, I think we've all be doing this for years to avoid the FBI warnings and extremely loud studio logos anyway.

But I'll give Monsieur Salty credit for bringing the concept to the masses.

you can skip alot of them, and most if you use your pc.. and some work if you just hit menu or title..

All NEW dvds I had picked up lately had them, except matrix 3 today