One of the “features” included on this disc is FastPlay – something that Disney is including on most of their current movie releases. The idea of FastPlay is that, left unattended, the movie will automatically start.
I saw an early review of FastPlay which came to a derisive conclusion that FastPlay was in fact the slowest way to get to the movie itself.
After all, with FastPlay, you wait for the automatic trigger, watch a couple of promotions of other movies, get berated for watching a pirated movie (even though you bought an original, though I guess that’s a different post) and then the movie would start.
That reviewer, though, has missed the point. The Fast of FastPlay isn’t to do with how fast the movie gets started … it’s to do with how fast the parent can get away and do something else.
With a FastPlay movie, the parent just has to turn on everything, put in the DVD, press play and walk away.
Without FastPlay, a parent has to do all those things then wait around for the menu to eventually come up (which only happens after you watch a couple of promotions of other movies and get berated for watching a pirated movie, even though you bought an original …), make a selection and then walk away.
So, from the Parents perspective, FastPlay is indeed faster.
Of course, this all assumes that the kids watching the movie are complete technophobes, not a situation that applies in our household. I gave up writing instructions for the babysitters years ago, telling them to just ask Cameron how to turn things on – he had this down pat at age 4.
Even Madeline (now 6) knows how to turn everything on, put in a disc and watch the movie. In fact, going through the special features is one of her favourite bits.
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