Why is my effects DVD playing sideways/not playing vertically? And other mysterious FAQ's about using DVD projection effects and projectors.

The above pictures are just a few of the thousands of DVD Players/BLUERAY Player REMOTE CONTROLS. We’ve circled all the REPEAT BUTTONS so you can get an idea of what to look for if this is your first time Playing or Repeating a DVD with the remote control. It is a very easy and efficient way to access different scenes on the DVD.

We sell DVDs with many chapters to give choices, rather than ONE scene per DVD, which would mean almost 6500 DVD titles. DVD players were designed, just as any Hollywood MOVIE or TV show on DVD or blue ray was designed, to allow you to play single chapters, even groups of them. Chapters allow a DVD like my 100+ Holiday Decor DVDs to contain 20 or more scenes on one disc. It's a great idea, it saves you money by not having to buy 6500 DVDs, and it only takes a tiny bit of learning [way less than your cell phone, or driving your car takes]. DVD player remotes let you turn on REPEAT CHAPTER, OR REPEAT ALL. It's a common feature to all players. If your remote does not have the word REPEAT on it, consult the manual, or go online to read the online manual. To LOOP or REPEAT a SCENE.

  1. Ue the PLAY button to play the DVD, and you don't have to use the DVD MENU to select chapters.

  2. You can use the SKIP or NEXT button to quickly skip from Chapter to Chapter, and very quickly in a matter of minutes sample the entire DVD - all without being FORCED back to the main menu as happens with Inferior DVD programming. This RANDOM ACCESS FUNCTION was chosen by producer JON HYERS back in 2001 and continues to be the method of choice for his DVDs.

  3. When the scene you want is playing turn on Repeat Chapter. It's easy. ALL DVD/BL players have this function. All of our DVDs since 2001 have the chapters, and all Hollywood movies on DVD have chapters, that you MUST use the remote to play. Without the remote control, MOST DVDS cannot be played entirely.

SIDEWAYS PICTURES: On many of Hyers DVDS and Digital Files, there are some sideways clips here for Vertical windows, NO it's not a mistake. One can't do sideways by accident, a 40 + Year Old commercial production studio does not Accidentally Knock their Cameras Sideways as a few have suggested. Its done for TALL THIN Windows. And the same applies to any CGI FX which are also done vertically, here's why.

Hundreds of customers have requested this, as far back as 2005, and Hyers didn't start doing it until 2015. WHY would this ever be done? If your window is tall and thin, like 2 wide by 4 feet tall, that is the same shape as a Wide Screen TV turned 90. So, by turning the projector 90 degrees, and having a portrait image, your image is Twice the Brightness, with Twice the Resolution in a tall thin window. If you were instead to have a character standing head-to-foot in the center of a normal Widescreen Image, and project that into your TALL THIN window, you have just decreased the brightness by 65% and wasted 65% of the image to the left and right of the window. So 90 degree flipped scenes are done for all of the people who want to have a few choices for tall thin windows. Who invented this??? PROJECT RUNWAY people!! Yeah the fashion industry, who placed 90 degree flipped TVs in clothing stores for women, and play TV shows of runway shows, where their Cameramen [like ours] purposely flipped their Cameras 90 degrees when filming the TV show. Why did they do that???? If you ever watched a runway show, The Girl Models they use are 4-5 times taller then they are wide! Yeah, its true as the Women's Organizations complain about all the time and the bad message it sends to the youth. But the shape of the runway models caused this filming to be done flipped 90, more than 20 years ago.

The ultra skinny fashion models DO FIT inside the 90 degree frame, much better than then inside the normal widescreen frame where they would end up being tiny figures inside the TV picture with up to 75% of the picture are being wasted. Hence, Vertical Filming and 90 degree TVS or Projectors. Why as recent as Nov 9th, 2017. Heidi Klum, appeared on Project Runway, from a studio Video Feed from another location, and guess what??? Heidi was in a Vertical Monitor for the same exact reason!!!, with the monitor placed next to the Chairs of the other 3 Judges on the Show.

So the idea is sound, given that the average Biped Human or Monster fits pretty well inside the 90 degree frame, maximizing both sharpness and brightness. So we made these Vertical Scenes by request. Some customers complained…"Well I don't like it sideways". FINE, don't use those chapters. They are there for NO extra charge for those who want them. Can you get a special DVD with the Vertical Scenes removed??? ABSOLUTELY, just paypal Jon Hyers $1000.00 for a custom edit, and he will make one for you. Otherwise use that handy dandy REMOTE CONTROL and skip chapters avoiding the vertical ones. It's just like a Scary BOOK, if there is a Chapter YOU don't want to read, SKIP IT. If there is a TV Series on DVD that you alredy watched, you skip that Chapter. Simple - Logical - Easy!

LASTLY: None of these DVDS were ever designed to play the whole DVD like a movie. They aren’t samplers, they are not movies to play for the kids, and they are not Edited Montogue Background Moods scenes. Originally called The Virtual Tool Box in 2004, these DVDs are Best Compared to a Tool Box full of totally different tools for totally different purposes. You don’t grab ALL the tools and use them at once, nor do you Play ALL SCENES from these DVDs at once, for a very similar, comparable reason. Thank you for reading.