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A programming flag used to disable one or more functions of a media player, such as Stop, Menu, and Chapter Skip. On a compliant player, it forces the viewer to wait as certain material plays before the main menu becomes available. Originally, this was used to require the viewer to see the copyright warning, but it has since been regularly abused to make advertising and promotional material unskippable. The illogic of this practice is that the people who will see this stuff obviously own the DVD, and the people who pirate the video via the internet won't get the warning or ads.
The formation of the
This DRM fills many people with a vast, seething hatred. People who own DVD editing software like [[Hand Brake]] may even be tempted to copy it purely to get a version without all that stuff. This can be universally bypassed by pressing Stop twice, and then play, to skip directly to the core feature of the DVD{{verify}} (until they close that loophole too). On some players, hitting "menu" works — sometimes. Some players will also hiccup if you try speeding up the playback past the tolerance point; dumping you at the menu. Of course, just as many will hiccup and go back to the beginning.
Unsurprisingly, the
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== Anime
* Some anime DVDs from [[FUNimation]] have previews that are only skippable using the [[Damn You, Muscle Memory!|"Title Menu"/"Top Menu" button...]] a button which, of course, not all DVD player remotes have.
* Madman Entertainment in Australia make a point of ''[[Averted Trope|not]]'' doing this. They are required by law to include an anti-piracy warning but it's relegated to a sub-menu with the previews and is entirely skippable.
* Many of the US releases of [[Studio Ghibli]] films have an unskippable intro with John Lasseter waxing poetic about the film you're just about to watch.
== Film ==
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** And on others, the FBI Warning, Warner Home Video logo, and ''fourteen minutes of advertisements'' are all locked together, again without a way to skip them beyond a fast forward.
▲== Live Action TV ==
* Most DVDs released in Australia have a unskippable, un-fast-forward-able "[[Digital Piracy Is Evil|Video Piracy Is Stealing]]" ad.
** ''[[The IT Crowd]]'' parodies this kind of video by going into hyperbole.
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* The ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' Series VI DVD has an unskippable animated intro on its first disc, {{spoiler|but that's because you can access Easter Eggs at the point where the POV briefly stops moving inside the airlock}}.
* Some editions of ''[[Dead Like Me]]'' Season 1 launches into an unskippable parade of copyright notices in every language known to man, lasting almost five minutes, ''at the end of every episode''. Then it reboots the DVD so that you have to watch the opening [[Vanity Plate|vanity plates]] (also unskippable) again before you can get back to the menu.
* On any DVD released by Showtime (e.g. ''[[Penn
* The first few DVD releases of ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' had a loophole. As soon as the MGM teaser popped up you could use the title button method as mentioned above and skip directly to an episode but only DURING the teaser. Once it ended, everything was blocked. They soon realized this and blocked this for the rest of the DVDs.
* Also subverted with one UK ''[[Doctor Who]]'' Series 4 box. After the first few seconds of material the DVD gives you the option between normal or vision-
== Machinima ==
* ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'' parodies these types of warnings on some of their DVDs.
== Professional Wrestling ==
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*** There was an Undertaker DVD with ''ten minutes'' of unskippable, un-fast-forwardable ads.
== Recorded and Stand Up Comedy ==▼
▲== Stand Up Comedy ==
* Parodied in ''[[Bill Bailey]]'s Guide to the Orchestra'', where he specifically refers to the notorious unskippable and un-fastforwardable Universal logo sequence. He has the orchestra play a sped-up syncopated version of the sequence (as though fast-forwarded on a DVD player) "just so the audience can get the satisfaction of hearing it once".
== Web Original ==
* The [[You Know What's Bullshit?|Bullshit Man]] lampshades this in his [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsdzaEVeFEE&feature=player_detailpage#t=221s lament on things he can't stand about DVDs.]
== Western Animation ==
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