Have any of you seen this shit?
Perhaps I'm pretty late to the party, but I didn't find out this even existed until yesterday. The majority of my movie collection is on DVD, but I figured with blu-ray prices being fairly competative and my aquisition of a PS3 a and an HDTV a few years ago I may as well buy a few. One of such was Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.
Now this isn't about the movie itself, but rather the "BD-Live" features of the movie. Much to my chagrin when I inserted and played the Blu-Ray my PS3 informed me it was connecting to and downloading things from the internet. I thought this strange... then it informed me it was getting a "fresh" trailer from the internet.
It then played 10 mintues of trailers, which I could not skip. What the hell is this shit? At least VHS tapes you could fast foward. At least on DVDs you could skip scenes to the root menu past the trailers. I paied for this bloody movie and I get the honour of sitting through trailers I don't give half a piss about.
The icing on the cake is that I live in Canada, we're making quite a name for ourselves with our capped bandwidth and this is no exception. Video data is quite large, so I'm essentially paying to see these god damn trailers I didn't want to.
I just wanted to watch the movie I paied for. Is this really so much to ask? At the very least you can disable BD-Live features; but as a real question... WHO thought this was a good idea?
Has anyone else had exposure to BD-Live? What do you think of it? Was your experience better?
Perhaps I'm pretty late to the party, but I didn't find out this even existed until yesterday. The majority of my movie collection is on DVD, but I figured with blu-ray prices being fairly competative and my aquisition of a PS3 a and an HDTV a few years ago I may as well buy a few. One of such was Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.
Now this isn't about the movie itself, but rather the "BD-Live" features of the movie. Much to my chagrin when I inserted and played the Blu-Ray my PS3 informed me it was connecting to and downloading things from the internet. I thought this strange... then it informed me it was getting a "fresh" trailer from the internet.
It then played 10 mintues of trailers, which I could not skip. What the hell is this shit? At least VHS tapes you could fast foward. At least on DVDs you could skip scenes to the root menu past the trailers. I paied for this bloody movie and I get the honour of sitting through trailers I don't give half a piss about.
The icing on the cake is that I live in Canada, we're making quite a name for ourselves with our capped bandwidth and this is no exception. Video data is quite large, so I'm essentially paying to see these god damn trailers I didn't want to.
I just wanted to watch the movie I paied for. Is this really so much to ask? At the very least you can disable BD-Live features; but as a real question... WHO thought this was a good idea?
Has anyone else had exposure to BD-Live? What do you think of it? Was your experience better?
