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Originally Posted by hipster.doofus7
This is just so WRONG on so many levels. Classic example of someone looking for a dark lining in a silver cloud.
First of all, there's just a ridiculous amount of Star Wars-related content available out there. It's wholly unrealistic to include everything in a single release. I think we all agree on that much, at least. Realistically speaking, there has to be a limit set on exactly how many minutes worth of special features are to be included.
Once they've set that limit, they ask themselves a question: Do they split their allocated space between old and new stuff? Or do they fill it only with unreleased stuff, and hope the buyers will have held on to their DVDs? I'm pretty sure 99.999% of rational people will opt for the latter. Especially since most of us already own the DVDs anyway.
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At least specifically in regards to the OT, it's not like there was a ton of extras on the previous DVD set. It was a single disc, the biggest part of which was a single documentary.
They easily could have taken the extras from that OT DVD disc, the extras from the prequel bonus discs, and anything from the previous laserdisc releases that aren't already on one of the existing bonus discs, and put it on one or two additional Blu-Ray bonus discs. If it means some of the content being in SD, fine, but it still could have been included.
Now, I'm not really "angry" per say over the fact that it didn't happen. I can live with that. But I'm not going to sit here and praise the lack of it as being a good thing like Beast seems to be doing. I'm not looking for a "dark lining on a silver cloud", as you put it... I'm just criticizing what to me seems to be Beast praising what is esentially a half silver / half dark cloud as somehow being better than a fully silver cloud (one that would hypathetically include all of the new content on this release and all content from previous laser disc and DVD releases).
And before someone makes the inevitable statement, don't give my any B.S. about how much more the set would "have to" cost if another disc or two of bonus features were included. Disc replication is relatively cheap. Why do you think we now get all of these "combo packs" these days that in many cases can be anywhere from 3 to 5 discs for not much more than what we were paying for a single disc Blu-Ray movie not too long ago?
For them to just take previous existing extras and "port" them over and put them on another disc or two wouldn't add some tremendous amount of cost on the production of this set.
With this being the first time that all 6 movies have been sold together in a set, on the highest quality format ever available, this really should have been the ultra-ultimate Star Wars experience, jam-packed with as many extras as possible, and with the treatment of the films being absolutely top-notch (i.e. NOT just reusing the problematic 2004 transfers for the OT).
Now, yes, since many people, myself included, already own the DVDs, I can see where if being forced to choose between one or the other, new features would be preferable to rehashed features. But the point is that it's a choice that simply shouldn't have to be made. And anyone who never bought the DVDs would now have access to those features.
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