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To this day I don't know what's stopping these streaming services from recreating a bit of the dvd experience and offering to show you some of that was pretty standard at the end (e.g. deleted scenes, bloopers, director/cast interviews)
They want you to spend more time on their platform, right? Seems like there would be a pretty obvious user journey from just watching a film to watching related content about it
Though that still wouldn't bring back something I feel like I'm in a bit of a niche for missing: DVD menus. For about 10 years, we had these crazy bespoke interactive experiences for every single release, some of which went to extensive levels to add in Easter eggs or games. When blu-rays came along, I don't think I remember a single Blu-ray that didn't use a standardised looking menu with basically the movie poster art as a background (I think any variance was down to each studio using slightly different art assets).
Same, the shrek 2 DVD menu and bonus features went so hard
It's all about money. The decline was the Sherlock Holmes dvd. I was working at Blockbuster when it came out, and I was surprised it was completely bare bones for the rental version. I was looking forwards to all of the mini documentaries.They took away the coolest part of dvds for a little more profit.
If anything, these experiences could be even more complex, considering every TV is basically a low-power computer now.
Honestly, a streaming service that recreates the original DVD menus when you select an item would probably do numbers.
The additional content was a main reason I enjoyed DVDs.
Deleted scenes, bloooers, alternate endings /scenes and directors commentary.
I was a sucker for directors commentary on films and scenes.
Disney+ used to focus on "Making of" documentaries for all Marvel/Star Wars shows that premiered there for a little while. They usually released a week after the last episode.
I think a lot of big shows now have moved into the shorter "Inside the Episode" immediately after it airs, or just make a podcast that can be easily shared/clipped on social media.
Of course they still rarely do deleted scenes or bloopers, which I'd like to see more of.
I’ve been wondering if it would be possible for something like plex to stream a dvd image from a server so you could still use the menus.
Plex doesn't support this, Kodi actually does
I know it doesn’t, I was saying I wished for that feature.
It’s not worth it for the streaming services to put all the money into an extended edition DVD type experience for streaming users if they can’t charge their streaming users more for it.
One of those DVD box sets cost a huge amount of money to produce, which is why they charge so much for it. They’d release it in limited numbers and get their return on investment. But if they release it for a streaming service, the streaming service doesn’t have any way to charge extra for it, so there’s no ROI.
In short, there’s no profit in it, so there’s no motivation for the company to pay for it.
Also, it competes with the engagement numbers for their mainstream version of the film, which screws up their metrics.
They could just provide some standard API and/or format for studios and film makers to do it themselves. Plenty of indie or smaller studios would take advantage, which would push the larger players to at least do deleted scenes, bloopers and making of kind of sections for at least some titles.