Commentary, behind-the-scenes features, bloopers: What did we lose when we said goodbye to DVDs?
Commentary, behind-the-scenes features, bloopers: What did we lose when we said goodbye to DVDs?
Memento was fascinating because the menu structure was a fragmented puzzle in and of itself.
There was also an easter egg to play the film in chronologicial order.
I watched the movie all the way through, put in the code and immediately watched it again in chronological order. This was like 2004. I don't think I've watched it since.
Maybe you don’t remember watching it again.
What's dumb is that these extras could still be offered on streaming or digitally purchased videos. Especially the latter; they could straight up give you access to an .ISO of an actual DVD so you even have the menus and whatnot.
This sounds like an excellent business model, they should allow us to have an app that virtually mounts the dvds iso file so we can have the same experience we did then
I bought Rogue One on the Google Play Store and it had extras.
It also sucks because each extra is like a movie on my playlist (sometimes, Google/YouTube like to mess about) or sometimes it disappears. I don't know.
I also bought the Rick and Morty season 1-3 and the extras were just videos in the list at the end. Then I moved to Canada from the UK and they just removed my ability to watch any of it any more. Thanks! No refund either!
How did they know you moved? What if you were just on vacation?
Oh, I pay for youtube premium, so I'm doubly-dumb, so in order to pay in Canadian dollars I swapped over.
If I knew I was going to lose all my TV shows I purchased, I wouldn't have. I lost Community, Rick and Morty, Ray Donavan and a few others. Kinda fucked up because I could have just as easily pirated but I chose to go the legit route and I can't watch any of those on my tablet any more.
My wife and I have been visiting half Price books and thrift stores to find dvds and blurays.
Me because I like director/actor commentaries, and behind the scenes/making of features, her because she hates when streaming services cycle through content.
Also secretly I figure if the world ends and I'm somehow alive, I've got my solar setup and several ways to watch my favorite shows to escape the hellish reality that is post-apocalyptic earth as I slowly die from malnutrition or radiation. But that's like.... So far down the list, I usually just bring it up for the lols.
I also have this thought every few days. I'll bring the irradiated nachos!
I imagine most people don't care, but I love commentary tracks and behind-the-scenes stuff. I've been ripping all of the extras from my DVD collection and adding them to my Plex server, with the intention of donating the DVDs to my local library once I'm done.
I've been thinking of doing this for my server. How do you organize the extra features?
https://support.plex.tv/articles/local-files-for-trailers-and-extras/
Short answer is put a tag like "-featurette" in the filename, or add a folder to contain the extras.
Jellyfin supports the same structure as far as I can tell. One thing I've found Jellyfin does better is in allowing you to organize extras for TV shows in with each season, while Plex only seems to allow you to dump all the extras into the root folder for the show.
Just like @dmention7@lemm.ee said in their reply -- I prefer the "folder" method, over adding the tags to the filenames.
Phase II is borrowing the rest of the dvds from the library and ripping them too
Streaming quality is horrible compared to bluray and a lot of movies never make it to the streaming platforms. DVD's are terrible but I some movies never made it to bluray of streaming.
Serious question: if a streaming-only movie gets added to the National Archive today, how does it get added?
It's a thing we all took for granted at the time, but I really miss menus. There's something much more complete and professional about the movie and bonus features being presented with an interface that fits the movie rather than the streaming service's generic devoid-of-personality UI.
Hang on, babe, R2 has to roll across the screen first!
Director's commentary. Try watching Grandma's Boy with the commentary on, it's a whole new movie.
God damn it now I gotta find this. Piracy supply chains really need to figure out how to completely separate audio and video files in such a way that users can mix and match any.
Piracy supply chains really need to figure out how to completely separate audio and video files in such a way that users can mix and match any.
It's easy - use MKVToolNix to extract the audio files from the movie in an .mka container (or .ac3, .dts, .thd, .dtshd), and just share those files.
The problem is, most don't do that for whatever reason, so you might have to try downloading a full Blu-ray ISO, or buy the Blu-ray and rip it yourself.
most media players actually let you do that already and most pirated content includes at least subtitles you can toggle on and off. but if you go for a full Blu Ray iso or remux you'll usually get the commentary track.
The extras on a DVD are the thing I absolutely love about DVDs. All my favorites have some amazing extras.
Ads (most of the time), and especially the ability for streaming sources to insert more ads later on, make them unskippable, make them require interaction to pass, etc.
(I know I worded this wrong based on the question the headline asks, but you get what I'm saying.)
DVDs pretty quickly got the front-end trailers that were unskippable, though often fast-forwardable. The ad aspect hasn't really changed. Cutting out the credits is such bullshit though. I'm not pretending I read them, but I want that time to process the ending of a movie set to the song(s) picked for the ending. Getting immediately thrown into a bright peppy ad after a dark ending is so obnoxious.
At least DVD trailers offer a bit of nostalgia when watching the DVD 20 years later.
That used to be true, but now Blu-rays and DVDs have almost no ads, at least from my experience it's just the distributor logo, the menu, maybe a 10-second anti-piracy warning, and then the movie starts. I guess all the ads moved to streaming.
Yeah, that was kind of what I was saying, in a backwards way, because my coffee to blood ratio is too low.
Special features, that's all. For shows and movies, piracy covers all that.
I remember the monsters inc DVD had Sully using boo as a bowling ball in one of the bloopers and I found it hilarious as a kid.
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DVD quality was terrible
Extras still come with Blu-ray and 4k.
Not on DVD
I remember when the LOTR DVD set came with extended version and hours and hours of extra, I watch all of them, it was maybe 20 years ago!! But it was so cool!
Too bad now there is about no more DVD/BD nor extra ☹️