Are Easter Eggs a thing of the past? (1 Viewer)

[Jefferson Morris]

Bill Hunt reports the new Iron Man blu ray will have an Easter Egg (not sure how much of an Easter Egg it is if we're all told about it in advance, but whatever). That's the first I've heard of an Easter Egg on a high-def disc.

By and large, are the studios abandoning Easter Eggs? I know some people don't miss them (to say the least), but I always found them sort of fun, as long as they weren't too difficult to navigate to.

--Jefferson Morris

 

[Jari K]

There are several BD-titles with Easter Eggs. One quick google search:
Easter Eggs | High-Def Digest

 

[TonyD]

i hate hidden features.

i'm glad they have een vanishing the last couple of years.

now I just need to get them to stop putting games on the discs too.

Cloverfield had a substantial hidden features on both the sd and blu-ray

 

[Brian Sheffield]

Easter Eggs are VERY ANNOYING.

The worst offender from my personal collection was the Terminator 2 edition that you had to navigate to a special screen and key in the date for "judgment day" in order to watch the extended cut of the film.

I didn't even know about this feature until two years after I purchased the disc. On a lark I went to a DVD easter egg site and found out about it.

It annoys me to this day.

Just use a straightforward menu for features on the disc. PLEASE.

 

[Jefferson Morris]

I guess they're still more prevalent than I thought, but I still get the feeling they're going out of style.

That T2 "egg," I agree, takes the concept too far. No hidden feature should be that significant, or cumbersome to access.

--Jefferson Morris

 

[Matt Hough]

There have been Easter Eggs on several Blu-rays that I've reviewed lately, but believe me, they weren't well hidden or I never would have found them. I don't normally go into any intricate searches for them; I don't have time for such searches, but I'll report them if I stumble across them, and I have lately.

 

[Ron-P]

Easter Eggs are the most moronic feature ever thought up. Really, what's the point? There isn't one other then having to waste time trying to find them.

I sure hope they are a thing of the past.

 

[Bryan^H]

The Star Wars episode 1, and 2 easter Eggs, are so complicated that I never got them to work!

 

[Don Giro]

You wanna talk "complicated" Easter Eggs? Anyone remember the original 2-Disc "Independence Day"? In order to watch an EXTENSIVE set of "in movie" media broadcasts (and a few other featurettes, IIRC), you had to "levitate" a spaceship and enter a code on the numeral pad of your remote control with a *very* limited amount of time to complete the task. It took me MONTHS to accomplish the task...

I like Easter Eggs, but I don't out of my way to seek them out anymore. I also couldn't tell you the last time I listened to a commentary, either, and they were sometimes the deciding factor in buying a DVD that I was kind of "on the fence" about. I just don't have the time these days...

 

[Travis Brashear]

Methinks a better link at the same sight would be here: Blu-ray Easter Eggs | High Def Digest

 

[Ralphie_B]

I remember the old Dark City dvd release also had a pain-in-the-butt easter egg on it. The 'payoff' was pretty blah, too, as I recall.