Fewer and fewer movies and TV series are being released in physical format, but streaming platforms do not provide enough for some film buffs, who miss the extras they offered
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.