March 23, 2006
Disney movies are great, but the DVDs (and VHS tapes, for that matter) annoy me a lot. They always have a TON of previews, and they’re hard to skip.
Recently, they came out with “FastPlay” to help people get the movie started more quickly. Of course, it doesn’t work.
I saw that to point out a great article that Rob Griffith has written about “FastPlay”. It’s worth a read.
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