Why ?!

I love dvds, as do we all. Crystal clear widescreen picture, commentaries, behind the scenes featurettes ; everything that a real movie fan could want. I remember exactly when I got started with the whole dvd world. April 4th, 2000. It was an RCA dvd player (which still works.) Of course, I had to get a dvd to go with it. So, I picked one of my favourite movies ; the first Highlander film. The director's cut, of course. It was (and still is) great. It has a commentary by the director and the producer. Not the best commentary I've ever heard, but definately fun to listen to. There is also production photos, but I've never really cared for stuff like that. Oh, and there was a trailer for the movie. Where was I ?.....oh, right. The dvd player. When I got the dvd player, it came with a form that you could filled out and send in to get five free movies. The ones offered with the player I bought were....Get Shorty, Analyze This, The Mask, Jackyl, and Fools Rush In. Except for Mask and Analyze, not too much worth watching more than once.

But onto the main reason for this post......

You buy a dvd of a movie that you really love and have been wanting for a while. Now, either the dvd has little or no features, but you're happy because you like the movie alot. Then, a little while later, you hear about a new special edition of that same movie and, because you're a huge fan of the movie, you buy that edition because it has a commentary and maybe a behind the scenes featurette. A few years later, maybe more maybe less, goes by and you hear that the movie is coming to blu-ray. Great ! You think that your favourite movie is going to have just amazing picture and sound quality as well as commentaries, featurettes, games, etc. So, when the blu-ray comes out, you go out and buy it. But when you're looking at the box, you see that the blu-ray is not the special collector's edition that you had before, but is, in fact, pretty much barebones with only a trailer as an extra.

Excuse me ? I spent 20 some odd dollars on your movie, then another 20 or so dollars for the special edition, then around, maybe, 30 dollars for the blu-ray. But the blu-ray doesn't have any of the features that you love. It may or may not have new, blu-ray exclusive features, but you're so mad that that doesn't count. The regular dvd you have is loaded with features, and maybe only a single disc release. Blu-ray has a far greater amount of storage space so, if a normal, lowly dvd have a ton of features, why can't the blu-ray at least include all the normal dvd's extras ? Doesn't make much sense to me.