I had emailed Crash.net to say that the video's were starting when I was browsing at work on my lunch break and it was annoying, asked if there was anyway to stop them. They emailed back and said no, it was a source of advertising so the videos were all set to ply if you go in to a page, he said it does not happen on the front page i.e. MotoGP.
If i was you i'd email and say your not happy and its takes along time to load pages, they say videos are disabled on tablet PC's not sure what your accessing on?
It is a bit ridiculous, not really that keen on the new layout either.