 cdruGo ColtsPremium,MVM
join:2003-05-14
Fort Wayne, IN
kudos:7 | reply to Sunshine1970
Re: Library loans said by Sunshine1970 :...stripping out the bonus features for libraries might not work as well as they believe. I'd happily save $4-8 if they strip out all the extra crap that I don't watch anyways. I can't remember the last time I watched any of the bonus footage. |
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| I gaurantee that the unskippable trailers are not part of the bonus "features" that they are cutting out. |
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strip it out and increase the quality of the feature film. |
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Hitting stop, stop, play on most DVD players made over the last few years takes you right to the start of the movie.
Just in case battleop reads this, let me define "most" as all but 1 DVD player I have ever put a disk into play whether it be at my house, my parents, my girlfriends, or any where else over the last few years as I have not actually tried this on "most" dvd players ever made and sold throughout the world. |
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 RARPSL
join:1999-12-08
Suffern, NY | reply to cdru
said by cdru:said by Sunshine1970 :...stripping out the bonus features for libraries might not work as well as they believe. I'd happily save $4-8 if they strip out all the extra crap that I don't watch anyways. I can't remember the last time I watched any of the bonus footage. The stripped (and cheaper) version is not the one that they sell you but the
"Library Version" that they want to force Libraries to have to buy. Thus if you buy in lieu of getting a loaner copy from your library it will not affect your cost. This stripped movie-only type DVD has already been done with some rental DVDs. There are a number of cases where I have rented a DVD which has no extras when I know the sales copy has extras on it.
As to the issue of them wanting to go to streaming and no longer have DVDs, this cuts their production cost since with streaming you only get the movie and thus there is no need to create the extras. |
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 DoggPremium
join:2003-06-11
Belleville, IL
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| I agree with the bonus content as well. I hardly ever watch it, and on those few titles that I do watch, it is on a Limited Edition copy that I paid extra for anyway.
And WB is currently playing games with the "digital copy" that is included on some titles. Typically, you get a hard copy that you can then import into iTunes or whatever to watch on your device of choice. WB wants you to create two user accounts (two different services - one verifies your digital license, the other a cloud storage service) and then STREAM it to your PC.
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Interesting...I'll have to try that on mine... Thanks for the tip! |
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 ThalerPremium
join:2004-02-02
Los Angeles, CA
kudos:3 | reply to cdru
I can't remember the last movie I bought and looked forward to the extras...at all. Maybe the Back to the Future DVD set? But for most crap coming out these days, I could really give less of a crap for the loss of the aftermarket extras.
However, when certain producers consider closed captioning a "premium" feature, that's when I take offense.
»consumerist.com/2009/11/disney-r···ase.html
I'm sorry, but being able to read the dialogue your WTF audio-adjusted characters say is a must for most movies I care to watch. Quit trying to suck out a few extra dollars simply because some people may not be able to hear as well as others. |
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