Phil Barker Web Developer, Petrol Head & Wannabe Photographer

Pirated vs Purchased

I will admit I do “borrow” some films off the net – to see what they’re like – if I’m skeptical. The stuff I know will be good I see at the cinema

But anything I think was good I buy on DVD – and I have nearly 500 of them now

It is annoying though that a lot of the time watching a film on DVD is a lot more annoying than watching an “illegal” download…

I’ve just put “never back down” on – which is a personal favourite of mine – and compared the download to the dvd

Download
Click on the film on my apple tv – it plays

DVD
Sit through an advert for some shite looking B rated horror flick.
Sit through another advert for some chick flick
Sit through an advert for red bull (seriously WTF)
Choose play from menu – it plays

I got a similar experience with House M.D
I love that show so much I spent £80 on a box set of all series
But with the box set I have to sit through a load of bloody “pirate dvd’s are illegal” adverts that I can’t skip – before watching the show. Ironically on my downloaded versions I can just watch it without that hassle

Why can’t the film and music industry realise that more people would pay for stuff if they didn’t fill the discs up with crappy adverts for films that we don’t care about?