The funny things they used to (Or still) do on DVDs

[Coenskubrick]

-Made up scene names for scene selection
-Ads for blu-ray that don't show any of the benefits of blu-ray because it's a DVD
-Hidden buttons and crappy games in kids movie menus
-4:3 pan and scan versions of movies aaargh

What else?

[skiizim]

I remember I used to look forward to finding hidden easter eggs. I would try and find them before I would resort to blogs/websites.

[chelray1]

Originally Posted by skiizim

I remember I used to look forward to finding hidden easter eggs. I would try and find them before I would resort to blogs/websites.

I actually like the chapter names and the fact they printed the chapters on the insert. It made it easier for me if I had certain chapter or chapters I wanted to watch over, I would already know the chapter to go to quickly. Now on blu ray, its a PAIN.. you have to cycle through the chapters one at a time and then guess based on the picture its the chapter you want to watch..

[applemac]

trying to include games you could play with the remote.
hidden menus.
multi-angle (on one of the Rush DVDs they had 3 songs you could choose from multiple angles, was interesting)

[Al_The_Strange]

• Animated menu screens (like the 3-D animated ones for The Abyss or T2, or the way the screen zooms past the Universal logo for Jurassic Park).
• DVD-ROM features (like being able to watch the movie with the screenplay and storyboards in your face, minigames, screensavers, etc).
• The special edition of Total Recall has a virtual vacation feature, which will play some landscape scenery on a constant loop. I think the disc also had a hidden commercial somewhere, I forget for what though (a camera or something).
• Chapter names that includes the titles of songs or music playing during the scene.

EDIT:
These are things I actually thought were cool, wasn't really thinking about anything that might be considered "funny" in a bad way. Although when it comes to DVD-ROM stuff, I'm sure all the weblinks they used to have are probably long gone now.

[Michael24]

I still like animated menus but elaborate menu transitions got old after awhile. "Oh, just get to the next screen already!" I'd often find myself saying during some elaborate 10-second transition.

I always liked chapter titles, though, and found them useful. The first time I ever saw them on the back of a Laserdisc I picked up at a store one day, I was like "Chapter titles? Why does a movie have chapter titles?" My family never owned Laserdiscs so I'd been unaware of them.

[jsvg00]

Copy protection. Pointless and a waste of money.

[gothic_hobbit]

Snapper cases.

[GreatGreg]

So, I remember hating Snapper cases (or Snapcases as they are now called) with a passion. I hated how they were different from standard Amarays and would stick out like sore thumbs in a collection.

I've since grown an odd affinity for them lately. In fact, I've begun to collect Snapcases! Oh, the horror. Maybe it is because they are getting harder to find, maybe because they are rare now in fine to excellent condition, or maybe it is because the art on the cover is usually superior to all of the modernized picture art that they use now for movies with big bold pictures of the main actors.

The Snapcases almost always had the original poster art, and I think that is what I like about them now.

[Spencie]

Remember back when they'd list "Interactive Menus" as a special feature? If you were lucky you might even score some paragraph long actor biographies!

Originally Posted by Coenskubrick

-Ads for blu-ray that don't show any of the benefits of blu-ray because it's a DVD

Don't they still do this? I get a kick out of the Blu-ray commercials that sport a side by side comparison on a standard DVD.

[Evil]

Originally Posted by Spencie

Remember back when they'd list "Interactive Menus" as a special feature? If you were lucky you might even score some paragraph long actor biographies!

And when they listed subtitles as special features.

[Michael24]

I was always amused by "Movie Factoids." The word just made me laugh.

[Region_unlocked]

DVDs that came out before IMDB used to have truncated filmographies for the main actors/actresses in the film. The DVD authors would get ahead of themselves every so often though.
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Everybody remember when "Die Hard 4", featuring Reginald Veljohnson, came out in 1999?

[blonde_devil]

Originally Posted by Region_unlocked

DVDs that came out before IMDB used to have truncated filmographies for the main actors/actresses in the film. The DVD authors would get ahead of themselves every so often though.
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Everybody remember when "Die Hard 4", featuring Reginald Veljohnson, came out in 1999?

Yeah, those were just lazy features to begin with. But they are not the only ones to get ahead of themselves - I have a book that was released just before Star Trek 6 that talks about Spock's upcoming wedding and Picard being at it

I only remember seeing it on Ghostbusters but it was the visual audio commentary - you see the silhouettes of the people doing commentary so they can point at things on the screen, etc. But you could run it just as an audio commentary so some of the stuff they say makes no sense if you are not paying close enough attention since you don't know what they are pointing at.

[Region_unlocked]

Originally Posted by blonde_devil

Yeah, those were just lazy features to begin with. But they are not the only ones to get ahead of themselves - I have a book that was released just before Star Trek 6 that talks about Spock's upcoming wedding and Picard being at it

I only remember seeing it on Ghostbusters but it was the visual audio commentary - you see the silhouettes of the people doing commentary so they can point at things on the screen, etc. But you could run it just as an audio commentary so some of the stuff they say makes no sense if you are not paying close enough attention since you don't know what they are pointing at.

I remember that! That was also on the DVD for "Muppets in Space". (It was only on the fullscreen edition IIRC)

[Abby is Q]

I'm certain it's still a thing, but I have yet to see dual-sided blu-ray discs with a second movie (or aspect ratio) on the back of the disc.

[blonde_devil]

Originally Posted by Abby is Q

I'm certain it's still a thing, but I have yet to see dual-sided blu-ray discs with a second movie (or aspect ratio) on the back of the disc.

Or the dual format - bluray on one side, dvd on the other. I know there were some issues with it but I thought they figured it out. Would sure be better than all these 2 disc sets that they have released.

[UFAlien]

This was really rare, but the DVD-CD flipper discs with the soundtrack on the other side. I know Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 did that. Also: MiniDVD.

[Region_unlocked]

Originally Posted by blonde_devil

Or the dual format - bluray on one side, dvd on the other. I know there were some issues with it but I thought they figured it out. Would sure be better than all these 2 disc sets that they have released.

Those kinds of discs are called BD-59s. The Bourne trilogy uses them and a lot of TV shows used them. You don't see them much anymore, cause frankly they sucked.

[Abby is Q]

I forgot about snap cases. I hate snap cases.