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Am I the only one who gets annoyed to find that the only extra features on my brand new DVD are scene access and *oooh* interactive menus? I was led to believe by sites anonymous that my DVD of "Heathers" would have "exciting extras!!"... Oh yes, thought I, the original ending deemed too controversial by the studio all those years ago. So what were these "exciting extras!!"? Well, I bought "Heathers" yesterday from HMV and it had scene access and interactive menus. Exciting? I nearly collapsed with the euphoria of it all.
I mean have you ever seen a DVD without interactive menus or scene access?
And worst of all the carlton range of films that come in the silver cases... they site "English(audio)" as an extra. Now I don't know about you, but I'm pretty damn glad they deigned to include the audio track for us all, so that we could watch the film with sound, not every company is that generous.
If you are a DVD manufacturer then listen carefully. Just because your crumby poorly produced DVD has nothing in the way of deleted scenes, out-takes, commentaries, photo galleries, documentaries, games, DVD-ROM, etc, don't try and compensate by sticking "scene access" and "interactive menus" in a little box labelled extras on the case. No one's fooled by your pathetic attempt to pretend that time and effort went into the transfer of the film on to disc. SO stop telling me that you have included extras on the DVD when you quite clearly haven't... and don't go pretending that the film's trailer is an "exciting extra" either. Only one trailer holds that honour and it is Spinal Tap's Cheese Rolling trailer.
How would you like it if your cereal box came emblazoned with "amazing free gift" all over it, and then the "amazing free gift" was plastic packaging for the cereal? It's not big and it's not clever, so stop doing it. Before I lose my temper...
I mean have you ever seen a DVD without interactive menus or scene access?
And worst of all the carlton range of films that come in the silver cases... they site "English(audio)" as an extra. Now I don't know about you, but I'm pretty damn glad they deigned to include the audio track for us all, so that we could watch the film with sound, not every company is that generous.
If you are a DVD manufacturer then listen carefully. Just because your crumby poorly produced DVD has nothing in the way of deleted scenes, out-takes, commentaries, photo galleries, documentaries, games, DVD-ROM, etc, don't try and compensate by sticking "scene access" and "interactive menus" in a little box labelled extras on the case. No one's fooled by your pathetic attempt to pretend that time and effort went into the transfer of the film on to disc. SO stop telling me that you have included extras on the DVD when you quite clearly haven't... and don't go pretending that the film's trailer is an "exciting extra" either. Only one trailer holds that honour and it is Spinal Tap's Cheese Rolling trailer.
How would you like it if your cereal box came emblazoned with "amazing free gift" all over it, and then the "amazing free gift" was plastic packaging for the cereal? It's not big and it's not clever, so stop doing it. Before I lose my temper...
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Thing is though, I love getting DVDs with all these extra's...But I can never actually be bothered to check out all of these extra's...Its sort of like Herzburgs Hygiene factors I guess...
I actually enjoy watching the trailers, a lot of the time you get stuff on the advert that was cut from the film, or was filmed just for the advert
And it's always interesting to see how they make you want to see the film without giving away too much
And it's always interesting to see how they make you want to see the film without giving away too much
Some more extras that can't really be considered to be extras are Trailers and TV spots. Why would we want to see the trailer of the film when we already have the thing to watch. It just doesn't make sense.
Do what I do, put the DVD in, then go get a drink.
I'm not too lazy to stand up... it's just I don't really like films to be interrupted.
I'm not too lazy to stand up... it's just I don't really like films to be interrupted.
MoJoJoJo wrote:
Old films, they either didn't bother or it's all
> been destroyed/lost. That's why a lot of the older films put on DVD don't have
> many features
I accept that entirely but it's still no excuse for telling me that menus and scene access are extra features. you don't see Fight Club with its two billion extra features including scene access and ineractive menus on the back of the box with all the others...
A real extra feature is the way that they block you from skipping the publishers' logos and the legal gubbins. That really annoys me. I watch my DVD's more than once and I don't want to sit through four 30 second clips from Columbia Tristar. Wait till they start forcing you to watch trailers as well...
Old films, they either didn't bother or it's all
> been destroyed/lost. That's why a lot of the older films put on DVD don't have
> many features
I accept that entirely but it's still no excuse for telling me that menus and scene access are extra features. you don't see Fight Club with its two billion extra features including scene access and ineractive menus on the back of the box with all the others...
A real extra feature is the way that they block you from skipping the publishers' logos and the legal gubbins. That really annoys me. I watch my DVD's more than once and I don't want to sit through four 30 second clips from Columbia Tristar. Wait till they start forcing you to watch trailers as well...
Well they purposely film stuff nowadays so they can make docus and stuff for the DVD while they make the film
Old films, they either didn't bother or it's all been destroyed/lost. That's why a lot of the older films put on DVD don't have many features
Old films, they either didn't bother or it's all been destroyed/lost. That's why a lot of the older films put on DVD don't have many features
I don't actually see the problem with flipper discs.
Unless you are too lazy to stand up.
Unless you are too lazy to stand up.
Mr. Happy wrote:
Bob wrote:
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"Well thanks for popping in Bob all the same."
lol
On topic, utterly agree. I'm not that bothered with the cheapy £7.99 DVDs. Trailers good enough for them... but with new films coming out now, it just isn't good enough.
Or the old classics. Goodfellas? Flipper disc? What's the world coming to.
Bob wrote:
"This is a test message."
"Well thanks for popping in Bob all the same."
lol
On topic, utterly agree. I'm not that bothered with the cheapy £7.99 DVDs. Trailers good enough for them... but with new films coming out now, it just isn't good enough.
Or the old classics. Goodfellas? Flipper disc? What's the world coming to.
Ha ha
It's like on bad games, when you read the back they're REALLY clutching at straws when they list all the stuff you can do in it
It's like on bad games, when you read the back they're REALLY clutching at straws when they list all the stuff you can do in it
If the same rule applied for CD's they could claim that being able to skip to different songs was an "Amazing Extra"!!
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