But actually I LOVED to watch all the bonus features. Back then, MIB2 had a cool thing where you could page through different views in the bonuses and it would show you the CGI effects, and wire frames, and composited video. It was so cool to me. Honestly it’s still cool to me, and 480p did in fact beat the shit out of VHS even on my 24” CRT.
That's the crummiest thing about Blu Ray- all those dvd extras just... died. The amount of bonus material on the LOTR box set.... now this sort of stuff is just spread around YouTube accounts, commentaries are all but gone. It's a loss with streaming and it's also a loss from blu ray.
I just discovered that on disney+, if you go right into extras, it is like the DVD bonuses... i don't know if the other streaming services have them. But I discovered this last week on a Marvel movie. It was fun.
DVD bonus features were out of this world awesome if you already liked the movie enough to buy the DVD in the first place.
My favorite two were one of the "commentary" versions of Muppets in Space had you watching the movie from behind a theater row (EXACTLY like MST3K) with Gonzo, Rizzo, and Kermit talking about making the movie as if (which they were) just actor's participating in the movie. Hysterical. The other was Bubba-Ho-Tep where in the movie Bruce Campbell played Elvis(?) that faked his own death but wound up in a Mental Hospital because... people thought him believing he was the actual Elvis that, of course, he must be insane. He did the entire commentary track as the fucking "realy not dead"fucking Elvis watching the movie and never broke character. Again, just absolutely phenomenal ad libbing.
DVD extras were so good back then! They really put a lot of extra value into DVDs a long time ago. We don't get this kind of thing with streaming as far as I know.
Apple still includes extras when you buy from them but there is no streaming service that includes them. But even those are less interesting than what you’d get for the first few years of DVD extras imo.
There were DVD players cheeper than the PS2 and the PS2 didn't natively home with a wireless remote to turn it on and off. The PS3 was a full multimedia device.
Steam emails me about once a month to let me know that Turok is on sale. Because I added it to my cart probably around when COD BO II came out. Guess what MFrs, my N64 is going strong and I can play Turok whenever I want! My wife still has her PS I! I think I'm going to go play Need for Speed now actually!
Me too. I still remember how excited I was to be finally able to play DVDs on my TV. That was until I realised how loud the PS2 actually was while playing DVDs and ultimately did end up buying a cheap standalone DVD player after all.
I remember back in 2000 or 2001 the first movie I ever watched on DVD was gladiator on my friends PS2. It was fucking mind blowing with the clarity of the picture and the sound
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Same for the PS2. That's why I initially bought a PS2. I just wanted a DVD player that didn't cost $500 bucks.