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Sep. 30th, 2009 06:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickDear Showtime: I understand that you would rather have me purchase a DVD box set for a season of your television using Actual Money rather than download same off the internets via the magic of bittorrent. It's OK for you to want to profit off of your television and I'm glad that you are catering to my lazy-ass desire to re-watch Dexter without having to download it again. However, when I put forth money for a DVD entertainment product, I have certain expectations regarding my purchase.
Expectation #1: My legitimately-purchased DVD shall play on any software-based player of my choice. Do not crud up my boughten dvd with dipshit copy protection shit, crappy authoring, or overly complex menus. I have already paid for your product. I am one of the good guys, here. Make your shit friendly so that it works on my system. If I wanted to actually spend time, effort, or energy on watching your television, I would not have paid for it in the first place. All boughten DVDs should be easier to watch than the .avi I can torrent for free. I had to fuck around to get your DVDs to load and I did not enjoy the fucking. Fortunately, the little orange traffic cone (VLC media player) handled it for me, or I'd have been really pissed.
Expectation #2: There will be some fucking proofreading of the DVD copy. I do not want it to read like some mouth-breathing twelve year old's pink and purple MySpace page. Sample fuckup: Episode 2 blurb "While trying to decide his next victim, Dexter's world is thrust into turmoil when the other serial killer in town, dubbed the Ice Truck Killer, has secretly contacted Dexter to inform him that he knows what Dexter is up too." While this rambling sentence is chock full o' fail on several fronts, the most teeth-on-edge part is putting "too" in where "to" is indicated. Fucking A, people.
Sample fuckup again: "Are these horrific tableaus meant to tell Dexter something about his own past?" I prefer "tableaux", damn it all. I'm pretty sure that "tableaux" is the meet-fit-seemly plural form of the word "tableau". WTF, Showtime? Did you assign this shit to an unpaid summer intern or something?
So, then.
1. Make the DVD play in all players.
2. Proofread your copy.
I don't think this is too much to ask.
Expectation #1: My legitimately-purchased DVD shall play on any software-based player of my choice. Do not crud up my boughten dvd with dipshit copy protection shit, crappy authoring, or overly complex menus. I have already paid for your product. I am one of the good guys, here. Make your shit friendly so that it works on my system. If I wanted to actually spend time, effort, or energy on watching your television, I would not have paid for it in the first place. All boughten DVDs should be easier to watch than the .avi I can torrent for free. I had to fuck around to get your DVDs to load and I did not enjoy the fucking. Fortunately, the little orange traffic cone (VLC media player) handled it for me, or I'd have been really pissed.
Expectation #2: There will be some fucking proofreading of the DVD copy. I do not want it to read like some mouth-breathing twelve year old's pink and purple MySpace page. Sample fuckup: Episode 2 blurb "While trying to decide his next victim, Dexter's world is thrust into turmoil when the other serial killer in town, dubbed the Ice Truck Killer, has secretly contacted Dexter to inform him that he knows what Dexter is up too." While this rambling sentence is chock full o' fail on several fronts, the most teeth-on-edge part is putting "too" in where "to" is indicated. Fucking A, people.
Sample fuckup again: "Are these horrific tableaus meant to tell Dexter something about his own past?" I prefer "tableaux", damn it all. I'm pretty sure that "tableaux" is the meet-fit-seemly plural form of the word "tableau". WTF, Showtime? Did you assign this shit to an unpaid summer intern or something?
So, then.
1. Make the DVD play in all players.
2. Proofread your copy.
I don't think this is too much to ask.
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Date: 2009-09-30 10:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-01 02:54 pm (UTC)For Christmas, I'm buying you an external harddrive. That way you can just keep everything you download around!
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Date: 2009-10-01 07:08 pm (UTC)The real reason I have Dexter DVDs is that I got them for a friend of internet cluelessness. Present, sort of a thing. They'll be slightly used when she gets them, not that it matters.