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They put ads in but you could skip them generally (except that fbi warning).

I’m in the same boat. I like dvds because I could rip them and watch anywhere. Though streaming killed a lot of my physical digital media use.

DVD can't force you to play ads.

Blu-ray elevates it quite poorly. I recently bought a Terminator set where it forced a 3 minute spiel on the blu-ray format on several discs (I couldn't know about it's AMAZING quality after having bought a whole set of them /s).

I just buy to rip/collect, but sometimes I have to navigate menus on a physical player to match features and titles. Lots of releases out there force previews, anti-piracy warnings, ridiculous menu sequences, and a whole host of other content that detracts from the experience.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_operation_prohibition

> I just buy to rip/collect, but sometimes I have to navigate menus on a physical player to match features and titles.

I've always been able to tell where the real content is in MakeMKV by looking at the durations. Not working for you?