Quote Originally Posted by L.J.
I agree with that. Screw the extras or put 'em on a separate disc.
I'd even pay $1-$2 extra for the better soundtracks.
In my DVD collection, I'm guessing there are fewer than a dozen discs for which I've actually bothered checking the special features - Star Wars, the Godfathers, Lost, Donnie Darko, 24, and maybe one or two others.
99% I think it is the biggest waste of storage space...grrr...would love to see DTS on there.

I went down to my favorite Music store today - they're stocking HD-DVD and BluRay - I was shocked at how few actually contained anything other than the Dolby Digital, DD Plus and maybe the True HD or PCM stuff every now and then. Most either didn't have any DTS or just didn't have the label on them. Granted I may have only looked at 60 or so titles, but it would seem more goofy special features, and undoubtedly more advertisements, are occupying storage space at the expense of the better audio formats.

This reminds me of what they did with the DualDisc format - instead of using it as a DVD-A hi-rez outfit, they added a bunch of video/graphic stuff....booo!

I don't remember, but I assume DTS didn't start appearing on DVD's until a few years into the product life cycle, and I know a lot of DVD's didn't even have the DD 5.1 track early on. Maybe that's all this is - I think the lack of a/v receivers with built in decoders might have something to do with it, hopefully they'll roll out more audio friendly versions of these titles in the future.