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Email to the Baby Einstein corporation

To whom it may concern,

I am writing to complain about the Baby Wordsworth product that I purchased as a component of a box set. The problem that I have with it is the long trailer that has been inserted into the video for the "Little Einsteins" television show, the upcoming Disney Channel version of it, and the web site. I purchased these products as a way to educate my child and to expose her to positive learning experiences and this two minute long trailer is entirely inappropriate within this product. It is highly commercial, can't be fast forwarded, not relevant to an 11 month old, and prevents me from immediately playing the DVD that is appropriate for my daughter. I hope that Mrs. Clark recalls the fun of having an infant and the short bits of time available for doing something like starting a video while preparing for a day.

My recommendation to both the Disney Corporation and to the specific Baby Einstein corporation is to remove such trailers in the DVDs as well as to shorten the sequence from loading the DVD to when the actual DVD starts. Otherwise in the future people like us will recommend products that do so instead of these to our many friends who are about to be first time parents.

Comments

For your own purposes, you could use DVD Shrink to remove the ads and re-burn the DVD. In the letter of the law likely a DMCA violation, but in spirit very clearly fair use.

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