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Originally Posted by Bleddyn Williams
* Filling disc two with the film again just for a different ending, instead of using branching to put both versions on disc one.
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My guess for why they'd do this is so they could use Disc 1 of the two-disc set as the single disc release, saving the time and expense of making a separate disc while still keeping the "alternate version" as an exclusive to the two-disc set. I'm not saying that that's the right thing to do, but I'm guessing that was the reason.
Also... what's the point of "digital copy" if it doesn't work on the overwhelming majority of consumer devices? Aren't there more iPods that pretty much all other kinds of comparable devices combined? If they're trying to present "digital copy" as both an added value bonus feature, and as a way of having rights-managed content to thwart piracy, they need to actually present it in a format that's compatible with what most people are using. If I can't use it on an iPod or on a Mac, it's useless to me (and I'm sure a lot of other people), and if that's the case, why am I paying extra for it?
Since I don't have the disc, maybe someone else can fill me in here -- for the bonus video content to be downloaded via web, is that something that can be accessed via PCs and Macs, or like most DVD-ROM content, is it PC only? Using the internet to delivery bonus content is a great way to supplement what's already out there on the disc, to add something that might not have been essential to the release but a cool thing to have, or maybe to continue to offer content made after the DVD release. At best, the internet could be used to deliver additional special features instead of double-dipping. As it is in this release, it seems like a way of taking features that aren't really up to the quality needed for a true special edition, using them as marketing to sell the item, and then not being of much value to anyone.