It struck me that after a few years of watching DVDs, I’ve never come across one with any “angle” option. The times I’ve pressed the button on the remote, hoping for something exciting to happen, nothing has.
Someone suggested that Doctor Who DVDs from the Beeb have an angle option, I’ll try this on my “Genesis of the Dalek’s” DVD later, but has anyone else got a DVD with any new “angles”?
Porn DVDs often have alternate angles. I’m just sayin…
King Crimson’s Deja Vroom DVD has several songs with multiple angles. The audio shifts to put the person in frame in the center channel as well.
Also, in Hannibal, the shootout at the fish market is in multiple angles.
The Matrix has got multiple “angles”: at least, you press the Angle button, and the disc flips to mini-documentaries of how each scene is shot. The first, and possibly only time I’ve seen the Angles feature used, and it wasn’t even for multiple angles!
I think it’s a scam. You’d have to edit a movie together using takes from separate cameras to produce a DVD that allowed you to change angels on the scenes. Nobody’s going to do that.
See post #2.
Were angles touted from the beginnings of DVD technology, or were they just a feature that someone figured you could implement later?
Galwegian, I have that DVD but I never tried the angle option with it, I’ll give it a quick check later.
Such as the aptly named Cunning Stunts 
The latter, IIRC. Everyone mentioned it as a DVD feature before they realized “oh yeah, no one’s ever going to film a movie twice, and this feature is useless.”
I differentiate between “movies” and porn.
Genesis: The Way We Walk is a live dvd set of Genesis’ 1992 concert. It has 4 camera angles available to choose from.
The concert was probably shot with differnt cameras focusing on the individual members and then edited together moving from one musician to another. The multiple camera angles were added to the dvd to allow you to watch the different musicians performing during the concert.
See, that’s cool. I like to watch the drummer, which is pretty much impossible in any concert footage/music video.
I think they should have sports games on DVD (like the season retrospectives that SI puts out) and one of the features, could be a single game where you control the angles. They have all the footage…so would it take too much room? A game can be 30minutes long (if NFL Network’s 30minute recap is to be believed) So to do it in 5 angles is the same as a 2.5 hr movie.
I would pay for that…
Underused it may be, scam it is not. It exists on an animation video, Animusic. Since the entire video exists only in a computer (no live action or cameras used), and since the authors had to tell the software to render a final version from virtual camera X, all they had to do was run the rendering another time from virtual camera Y. The final video has several angles for each performance, including a composite version with clips from different angles combined.
It does seem like an little-used DVD feature, but since many live movies are made with multiple cameras anyway (sports events especially), it should be easy to produce such a video if desired.
That is indeed cool. I hate most footage of live music, especially for fast music the editor seems to think the view needs to change every second or two to reflect the pace of the music. STAND STILL!
I seem to recall that when I rented “Unbreakable” a few years back that it had a couple of scenes that utilized the “angle” feature, but that’s the only one that I can ever remember seeing.
Was there an option that allowed you to see a view from the camera that was directed away from the main story, which may have actually contained some entertainment?
I think Die Hard had this option, or at least the one with two disks does. I don’t think I’ve ever used it before though. Oddly enough a friend and I were talking about this a couple of days ago.
I seem to recall many concert videos have the feature; it’s something that’s much more easily implemented, and useful, there than in a regular movie.
I thought the angle feature was a weird concept the first time I heard it, I couldn’t see why anyone would want to use it even if they could, so I figured it was doomed to fail as an idea. It sort of has, in that it’s barely utilised, and I wonder if HD-DVD/Blu-Ray are continuing with it as a concept.
I’ve seen it used in some special effects special features. I think Men In Black used it that way.