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this post was submitted on 21 May 2026
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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.