Astera121 wrote:The bonus disc was worth the frustration... but I find it incredibly stupid how they just couldn't stick it on the original DVD. >.<
So true. And it wasn't as if Disney didn't have space on the DVD. This is one reason why I hate store-exclusive bonus discs: perfectly good bonus material that SHOULD be on a release gets excluded so that Store XYZ gets your money instead of Store MNO. And yet, I love store-exclusive bonus discs because they offer great bonus material that isn't on the general release, which can be somewhat lacking (Enchanted and POTC3 are great examples).
Astera121 wrote:I'm still wondering the logic behind the ocean of fullscreen DVDs in that store...
Because there are REALLY STUPID customers who insist on fullscreen. Usually they have the pathetic excuse of "fill my square TV screen, no more black bars! Cut off the sides of the picture!"
Of course, I'm not trying to make every 4:3 television owner sound stupid since our family still has them (I have no intention of buying a 16:9 television until I buy a Blu-Ray player, which won't be for another year or two). Just the ones who always say "fill my screen, no black bars, director's vision be damned!"
Also, we can blame Wal-Mart, who caters to those fullscreen ignoramuses and is a major driving force in making studios waste money producing pan-and-scan versions for DVD. Target wasn't as huge an offender of fullscreen DVDs. In DVD's early years Target would stock both wide and fullscreen, and when the title became an evergreen (you know, the DVD that's always in the $13.72/$9.44/$7.50 sections), they'd stock the widescreen only. Now they've followed Wal-Mart's example and stock more fullscreen for the evergreens than widescreen. And they'll even make the fullscreen one cheaper. Grrr.
But yeah, there's always gonna be more copies of fullscreen than anything because the stores are still stupidly catering to the equally stupid customers who don't want black bars and don't understand why they're there in the first place.
And Mike's also correct with his reasoning. There are more and more people that are learning that widescreen is better and so they choose to buy it over the fullscreen version. Still, I cringe whenever I'm in a DVD/video section of a store and hear a stupid employee try to explain to an equally stupid customer about what fullscreen/widescreen actually are...and get it wrong.
Example: (and a real conversation I've heard before...)
Customer: Should I get this movie in widescreen or fullscreen? I'm so confused!
Employee: What kind of TV do you have?
Customer: Huh?
Employee: Is it a rectangle or a squre?
Customer: It's a square.
Employee: Okay, you've got a normal TV Then you'll want fullscreen. Widescreen DVDs only play on widescreen TVs.
(I come up)
Albert: You've got to be frickin' kidding me! They actually let you work in this department?
Employee: Huh?
Albert: (long and drawn out explanation about widescreen versus pan and scan, matting for theatres, and standard TVs versus widescreen TVs.)
Customer: Oh...so which one fills my screen again? I just don't want any black bars, I hate them.
Albert: ...
(I walk away, frustrated.)
Albert
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