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Annoyances
Nov. 28th, 2004 10:04 pmI am annoyed that:
1) Our cable, gas, and electric bill, as usual, require us to list our account number on each check we send in. Between the three of them, though, the account numbers are 38 numbers long. 11 each for gas and electric, and 16 for the cable bill. With 11 numbers, you could give every man, woman, and child an account number. Every person in the world, that is. 16 digits is just unreal. Why do they need that many digits in an account number?
1a) We have NStar Electric and NStar Gas, but there are two bills One would think we could cut one check to cover our gas and electric bill. Definitely not the case. Two checks, one for electric, one for gas.
2) I cannot get a DVD player that will let me advance through crappy stuff at the beginning of the disc. You want me to sit through the FBI and Interpol warnings without allowing me to use the "Menu" button? That is fine. Anytime you want me to sit through a one minute long advertisement for your production company, though, I get frustrated and angry. Thank you for providing me with a list of movies you distribute and, in all likelihood, have the same unavoidable advertisement before them. I will make sure to avoid those movies. I *own* this movie, you should not be hitting me with advertisements and annoying me. And why are so many DVD manufacturers going along with this?
3) I cannot get a Region 1 DVD of Top Gear. I LOVE this show, but the BBC only distributes the video in the UK, and the DVD is a Region 2 DVD. If you never have plans of releasing the DVD in other countries, why not go ahead and make the DVD region-free so you can increase the size of your possible customer base? I would even pay for shipping for the DVD to bring it to the States.
[Note: I realize I could make a region-free DVD player, and I have researched turning my housemate's DVD player into one. The problem is that he is moving next month, and I have three other DVD players - one on each computer and then the Playstation2 that is hooked up to the television. Changing those to region-free is much more difficult. The point is that I should not have to do that. The DVDs should ship region-free so that I could play them on any of the DVD players I own. I buy the player, I buy the DVD, and I cannot view it? There is something clearly wrong there.]
1) Our cable, gas, and electric bill, as usual, require us to list our account number on each check we send in. Between the three of them, though, the account numbers are 38 numbers long. 11 each for gas and electric, and 16 for the cable bill. With 11 numbers, you could give every man, woman, and child an account number. Every person in the world, that is. 16 digits is just unreal. Why do they need that many digits in an account number?
1a) We have NStar Electric and NStar Gas, but there are two bills One would think we could cut one check to cover our gas and electric bill. Definitely not the case. Two checks, one for electric, one for gas.
2) I cannot get a DVD player that will let me advance through crappy stuff at the beginning of the disc. You want me to sit through the FBI and Interpol warnings without allowing me to use the "Menu" button? That is fine. Anytime you want me to sit through a one minute long advertisement for your production company, though, I get frustrated and angry. Thank you for providing me with a list of movies you distribute and, in all likelihood, have the same unavoidable advertisement before them. I will make sure to avoid those movies. I *own* this movie, you should not be hitting me with advertisements and annoying me. And why are so many DVD manufacturers going along with this?
3) I cannot get a Region 1 DVD of Top Gear. I LOVE this show, but the BBC only distributes the video in the UK, and the DVD is a Region 2 DVD. If you never have plans of releasing the DVD in other countries, why not go ahead and make the DVD region-free so you can increase the size of your possible customer base? I would even pay for shipping for the DVD to bring it to the States.
[Note: I realize I could make a region-free DVD player, and I have researched turning my housemate's DVD player into one. The problem is that he is moving next month, and I have three other DVD players - one on each computer and then the Playstation2 that is hooked up to the television. Changing those to region-free is much more difficult. The point is that I should not have to do that. The DVDs should ship region-free so that I could play them on any of the DVD players I own. I buy the player, I buy the DVD, and I cannot view it? There is something clearly wrong there.]
