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So the bonus features are better quality on the SD DVD? What's the point?

(Posted on Friday, September 30, 2011 at 9:27 PM)

Ridiculous. Streaming can go to hell. We buy discs to have the content on the discs.

Kinda reminds me in a way of my Blu-ray set of Park Chan-wook's "Vengeance" films. I'd owned the DVDs prior, and the SD special features all look worse than the same ones on the DVDs. Heck, even the DVD bonus disc for Lady Vengeance has special features that look better on the DVD the film's on. The heck??

(Posted on Sunday, October 2, 2011 at 12:57 PM)

This is only going to get worse, they want streaming to be the future of home entertainment. ( yuck )

Having said that, i do not buy a film for the extra content, i rarely watch much of the extra content bar some deleted scenes, bloopers, and perhaps a quick listen to an audio commentary, for me the extra content is usually fluff and not worth my time, i'd rather they lowered the price of the film than fill it full of "Disney games" and congratulatory pat on the back content.

If they are going to put old content on new blu ray releases then re-encode it using AVC and make it look as good as it can but do not fill up the main movie disc with this stuff, put it on a second disc.

As for Morning Report being consigned to the deleted scenes, i disagree, give viewers the choice of watching it within the film, personally i can do without that scene but give viewers the choice, it seems we get better technology but standards seem to be slipping, studio's aren't using seamless branching enough, Java makes load times painfully slow at times (even for me using an Oppo BD-83) and the future seems destined to be digital downloads with no doubt higher compression levels, unfortunately many will buy into this. (MP3 anyone)

In some ways i now don't want our broadband infrastructure to improve too fast, when it does improve then downloads will take off bigtime but till then we have a broadband system unable to cope with the demand on bandwidth (especially at peak times) that would be required for HD downloads to become the norm. I hope we get a new 4K format long before HD downloads take off.

(Posted on Monday, October 3, 2011 at 9:17 PM)

I just watched The Lion KIng.

They have not deleted the dedication to Frank Wells, its still there on the end credits.

(Posted on Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 6:28 PM)

Streaming content just pisses me off, the PS3 download speeds are crippled by Sony for some reason so they take an age to load. Then there's the obvious disadvantage of them closing down that server in a few years time, and you are out of luck.

Why don't they just scrap the idiotic, one use digital copy discs and use those discs to store extra SD content.

(Posted on Monday, October 17, 2011 at 3:12 AM)