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).
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.