R.I.P Special Features?

[The Curmudgeon]

As John Lydon once said, "ever feel you've been cheated?" because, when DVD's first came out, the market was awash with 2 Disc, 3 disc special, ultimate, 20th Century, Millenium edition of classic movies, and discs stacked with bonus features on new releases as well. Empty, "vanilla" discs were like a curse.

When Blu Ray came on the scene, we were promised even MORE, because not only could the disc hold more data but it could do tricks and features that standard DVDs couldn't.

Ever noticed the decline in these features over the last few years? New movies seem to have almost bare-bone releases, criminal when you think of the data they CAN store on them.

Here's an interesting article on the subject, followed by an article about WHY it's happening. As usual, fucking download culture is to blame.

badassdigest.com/2011/11/08/terror-tuesday-the-slow-death-of-dvd-special-editions

richmwaters.blogspot.ie/2012/07/death-of-dvd-film-school.html

Digital media can eat a dick.

[trashcanman]

I have definitely noticed the decline of special features the last few years, though I wondered if it was because a lot of movies are rented through Netflix (some copies there are actually stripped of bonus features that are on the retail disc). For instance, the first two re-releases of the Frday the 13th series had some cool special features including some short film made specifically for the DVDs. The third one comes out with the "Deluxe Edition" tag and the bonus features are.....zero. Not even a trailer. It's the film in regular and 3-D (which did not work on my tv) and some glasses. No extras on disc. That is "Deluxe" how? And I really thought that modern films would really start packing features in. Look at all of the great shit in that Blade Runner set. And that film is decades old. Modern filmmakers KNOW that special features are a thing as they are making the movie so I really don't see how it is that they aren't shooting extra stuff as they go specifically for DVD release.