who watches the special features?

[gand41f]

Originally Posted by SKRUhddvd

watched FLATLINERS on blu the other night. what struck me was how fast the disc loaded and how easy it was to "just watch the movie". this is an older movie lacking all the special features found on releases like POTC. don't get me wrong, theatrical trailers and some of the deleted scenes are nice to have available. i was just amazed at how quick i got from inserting the disc to watching the movie. do you think their would be a market for lower priced disc's without all the extras?

For the record, the question in the thread title is somewhat unrelated to your experience there. POTC are one of the extremely slow-loading titles due to extensive use of BD-J for menus and are really special cases. The rest of Disney/Buena Vista take time because they contain trailers at the beginning. They are skippable with the forward chapter button but they disable menu access so you need to skip them one by one, hence the long time it takes until the movie loads.

Most other studios (Sony for instance) will give you one generic Blu-ray ad and then it's the main menu. That's fast enough. Warner is somewhat different because they give you the warning pages (some of which are not skippable) and starts the movie without a menu. Some people like this; some don't.

As for your question, I don't mind the forced trailers as long as I can fast forward them (Disney style). It gives me a little bit of the theater feeling. The rest of special features, the ones I need to use the menu to dig them out, I almost never watch. (There are probably a lot of people like me, which explains why Disney is doing it this way.)

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gandalf