DVD's special features

[Mara]

How many of you

1. Choose a DVD because of its special features

and/or

2. View the DVD's special features

To date, I have not viewed the special features on any of my DVD's. The only thing I really look at when choosing my DVD's is to choose wide screen over full screen.

[RHooks]

Don't choose a DVD ever because of it's special features. As to whether or not I watch any of them, it depends on the feature. I like to watch ones on history behind movies. For instance, I watched most of the extra stuff on Blackhawk Down and Pearl Harbor. Features about how movies are made or behind the scenes stuff don't hold any interest for me.

[MasterChief]

Which BHD DVD did you get? I personally thought BHD's special features were kinda weak, there was some kind of documentary and that was about it. Personally though, I never get DVDs for their special features. I try to watch as many of them as I can (the LoTR DVDs especially) but more often than not it takes me forever to get around to it. Basically I just get movies I like...besides, what other alternative is there? VHS? :p:

[DanTheManPR]

I never buy DVD's for the special features, but I do watch them all.

[Kalbrecht]

Well, if it's choosing between a cheaper 1-disc edition and a 2-disc edition with lots of special features, then the special features can swing it my way.

Also, if it's a movie I like but was only considering, the special features can swing the purchase.

And yes, I watch them. Special features are cool!

[Eddie Ismail]

I never watch special features, watching the movie is good enought for me.

[NotSoFast]

I watched all of the special features in the two Lord of the Rings Extended Box sets that I have.

If two copies of the same movie were side by side, one having special features and the other one didn't, I would buy the one with them, even if it cost a few more dollars.

[Chylde Roland]

I generally watch them all, but would never make a purchase based on the extras. To me, the movie is what I'm buying. The whole "extra" craze got started because DVD producers needed a value-add gimmick to get people to give up their VCRs more quickly than they otherwise would have.

[Nyghtfall]

Seems like eons ago, I was very skeptical about the very promise of movies on a CD. I was of the opinion that the quality of the film would suffer greatly because it wasn't going to be magnetized onto a few hundred yards of tape!

:lol:

As for special features, I prefer them but I don't look for them.