I want to watch the extra scenes from Karate Kid (2010.) However, I recently borrowed Clash of the Titans on Blu Ray, and it had no extra features at all. Do Blu-Rays normally not have extra scenes, or did i get a specific copy that doesn’t have it? (It said “Rental” on it.)
Blu-ray discs are usually just as feature-rich as DVDs, and sometimes include additional features not possible on DVDs
I’ve run across rental discs DVDs that left off the special features, so it stands to reason that studios do the same with BD discs.
I’ve never felt an urge to investigate, but I’d wager that only some studios bother put out dual-releases for the rental vs purchase markets.
Another possibility is that the features are on a second disc that isn’t included in the rental. Amazon says the basic Clash of the Titans Blu-Ray box has 2 discs, so that may be the case here. The first disc would only have the movie and some limited features like commentary, while the second disc would have the deleted scenes and featurettes and other stuff.
I don’t think I’ve yet seen a Blu-Ray that didn’t have a good number of special features. If they’re not on the main disc, they’ve all been offloaded to a second one.
This question takes me back to the early days of DVD though, when “Scene Selection” and “Movie Trailers” were touted as “special features.” The first one of those is especially dubious, since it’s inherent to the format.
And yet I’ve run across DVDs without the scene selection feature.
Do you mean they didn’t have the extra option that lets you see a still of a scene and pick it, or do you mean you actually didn’t have multiple tracks, and had to fast forward like a VHS tape?
I’ve only seen the latter on homemade stuff.
We just borrowed the Blue-Ray for CotT this past weekend and the “movie” disc had deleted scenes, an alternate ending and various commentary tracks on it. It also had a setting for those “Click when you see the symbol to get trivia” features I never use. That was all on the main disc of the retail version.
It may have also had a second “features” disc in the case under the leaflets and ad fliers but I wasn’t impressed enough with the film to want to learn more about it. I have seen Blu-Rays with no special features from Netflix and assumed the goodies were on Disc #2.
I recently got a rental disc from Netflix that had no Menu access at all. It may have actually had chapter stops but I didn’t try.
I recall that the first DVD releases of some of Woody Allen’s films had no chapter stops because he didn’t like the idea of them.
I’ve also bought some public domain stuff that, while not homemade, had no menus.
I realize my cites are non-existent here, maybe someone else can supply some specifics.
I believe Prince did this in the early days of CD – one of his albums didn’t allow you to skip past or shuffle songs. That’s actually more defensible than what Woody did, though.
Avatar had nothing whatsoever. Guess they’re keeping all of that for the 3D version or something.
I haven’t bought a DVD in a long, long time. Between Netflix and Redbox, I don’t need to.
I have noticed lately, especially with new movies, that studios are putting out “Rental” DVDs to these companies. That is, the word “Rental” is part of the title picture on the front of the disc. Not an added sticker or anything, but worked right into the picture printed on the front of the DVD itself.
When these DVDs start up, they only have “Play Movie”, “Scene Selection”, and “Audio Setup” as options. There are no special features or any instructions telling you to use a second disc to access special features. Sometimes, there is a “Trailers” selection that shows trailers for other movies from the studio.
I’m guessing that this is a marketing ploy by the studios to help prop up their sagging DVD income. If you want to see the extras, you have to buy the movie, not rent it. It’s gotten to the point where my wife asks me if it is a “Rental” DVD before we even get to the main menu so she can adjust her expectations about special features.
A caveat: We do not have a Blue Ray player, so I can only talk about standard DVDs.
There are rental Blu Ray discs made that way, too. Damned annoying.
I once rented a DVD that didn’t allow ANY fast-forwarding, track by track or otherwise.
No, I take that back. It wasn’t a rental; it was a free DVD – Don Juan De Marco – that I got for buying a Papa John’s pizza. I was still annoyed.
Do those RENTAL DVD/BD’s also have those goddamned annoying forced trailers removed too? I just watched the Frozen BD, which wouldn’t even let me jump to the main menu - I had to fast-forward through them!!! In the commentary track which I watched after I finished that film, director Adam Green gave us an address where we can send him comments …I think I’m gonna tell him to tell Anchor Bay to cut it with this trailer crap.
While they’re not movies, the “Friends” DVDs, at least the European ones, do not have any chapter markers, even the ones that were re-released just a short time ago.
Really annoying if you do not want to listen to “I’ll be there for you” 10 times every day. Oh well, at least you can make a game out of how fast and exact you can fast forward through it.
At least they got rid of the godawful single-layered, double-sided DVDs (3 episodes to a side, flip after that). The good old early days of the DVD…