Comment by falsemyrmidon
8 hours ago
I liked features like director commentary and deleted scenes (usually deleted for good reason but still interesting)
8 hours ago
I liked features like director commentary and deleted scenes (usually deleted for good reason but still interesting)
A few years ago I hurt one of my shoulders pretty badly, so I could barely move and had to sleep in a sitting / reclined position for almost a week. No keyboards, no computers.
Boy oh boy did that LotR premium extended something-something edition on DVD turn out to be a godsend with the countless hours of behind the scenes footage and interviews, and director's commentary. I watched it all.
Did you find the easter egg with the Elijah Wood prank interview? That's the kind of stuff modern media lacks.
One of my first DVD experiences was the original Blade film, and it had an alternate ending available to play.
That blew my mind and was an awesome experience. In the age of dial-up internet it wasn't like you could find and / or watch that online.
Yeah, early on in the DVD era having deleted scenes and commentary tracks was totally new and a big deal for a lot of us.
In the peak of the DVD era my SO and I were both big movie fans, and at one point had watched literally everything the Blockbuster and Hollywood video in our neighborhood had. There just wasn't the embarrassment of riches of the post youtube world.
DVD supports an absolute amazing amount of features many of which were rarely if ever used, and some never implemented on most players, likely.
It's why the original Matrix DVD dual layer release was so hard to duplicate / replicate by pirates/"enthusiasts" in a way that would fit on single layer DVDs. One of those was a secret "follow the white rabbit" mode that lead to hidden content.
doom9 had reams of guides dedicate to the matter: https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=313722