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Commentary, behind-the-scenes features, bloopers: What did we lose when we said goodbye to DVDs?
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Ads (most of the time), and especially the ability for streaming sources to insert more ads later on, make them unskippable, make them require interaction to pass, etc.
(I know I worded this wrong based on the question the headline asks, but you get what I'm saying.)
DVDs pretty quickly got the front-end trailers that were unskippable, though often fast-forwardable. The ad aspect hasn't really changed. Cutting out the credits is such bullshit though. I'm not pretending I read them, but I want that time to process the ending of a movie set to the song(s) picked for the ending. Getting immediately thrown into a bright peppy ad after a dark ending is so obnoxious.
At least DVD trailers offer a bit of nostalgia when watching the DVD 20 years later.
That used to be true, but now Blu-rays and DVDs have almost no ads, at least from my experience it's just the distributor logo, the menu, maybe a 10-second anti-piracy warning, and then the movie starts. I guess all the ads moved to streaming.
Yeah, that was kind of what I was saying, in a backwards way, because my coffee to blood ratio is too low.