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I think the bonus content on DVD mostly comes down to tossing in anything they could think of as an effort to say "this is so much more amazing than VHS" But i
by wlesieutre 4y ago
I think the bonus content on DVD mostly comes down to tossing in anything they could think of as an effort to say "this is so much more amazing than VHS"
But it turns out what consumers actually care about is the better video quality
- dylan604 4y agoBonus content in the early days was a scramble to get produced. Eventually, it became part of the negotiations with the actors to make themselves available for bonus content just like their promotional tours. Producers also started paying for BTS docs to be produced during production just to have the content available. The docs definitely changed over time as not everyone cares about some of the detail. Edge cases remained like the LotR box sets with the details kept in vs let's just see famous people "at work". Yes, the quality difference in video/audio from VHS to DVD was a no-brainer kind of upgrade decision path. It was visible on the existing TV equipment already owned. That's also why HD-DVD/Blu-ray sales were not as large of a spike in the adoption rate. To see the difference between HD and a really nice SD DVD, you needed the larger screens which not everyone had. Otherwise, there was no noticeable difference between HD-down-convert to SD on an SD screen to the SD DVD. I was in that industry for both format introductions/adoption cycles. Once people started getting the larger HD screens, they could see how poorly the SD->HD conversions looked compared to HD sources.
- ghaff 4y agoDVD + HD didn't hit the quality plateau for everyone but it did for a lot of people. I'll generally buy BluRay discs on the rare occasions I buy a movie. But I'm not getting replacing a perfectly good 60" plasma TV in favor of whatever the latest and greatest is.