Comments on: Translation from marketing-speak to English of selected portions of the FAQ for “Disney’s FastPlay” http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2008-11-06/translation-from-marketing-speak-to-english-of-selected-portions-of-the-faq-for-%e2%80%9cdisneys-fastplay%e2%80%9d The personal weblog of Peter Hosey. Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:19:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Peter Hosey http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2008-11-06/translation-from-marketing-speak-to-english-of-selected-portions-of-the-faq-for-%e2%80%9cdisneys-fastplay%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1#comment-296134 Peter Hosey Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:31:58 +0000 http://boredzo.org/blog/?p=696#comment-296134 Chris: Yuck. Sounds like the DVDs <em>without</em> FastPlay are better—you can actually skip the (dozen or so) trailers on those. Chris: Yuck. Sounds like the DVDs without FastPlay are better—you can actually skip the (dozen or so) trailers on those.

]]> By: Chris http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2008-11-06/translation-from-marketing-speak-to-english-of-selected-portions-of-the-faq-for-%e2%80%9cdisneys-fastplay%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1#comment-296126 Chris Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:07:06 +0000 http://boredzo.org/blog/?p=696#comment-296126 "After the trailers" This is the part I would emphasize, in the one DVD I have seen with this "feature" it has two unskippable trailers that seem to take forever. After that it does go straight into the movie, yes, but in the meantime I have to explain to my four year old why I told her that we were going to watch one movie and are instead watching 3 minutes of unrelated movies instead. “After the trailers”

This is the part I would emphasize, in the one DVD I have seen with this “feature” it has two unskippable trailers that seem to take forever. After that it does go straight into the movie, yes, but in the meantime I have to explain to my four year old why I told her that we were going to watch one movie and are instead watching 3 minutes of unrelated movies instead.

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