Inlay cards/liner notes

[bourahioro]

Doesn't it piss you off when you buy a DVD and there is NO inlay card of liner notes to accompany the disc you have just sspent like $30.00 on?! I especially hate this when it is a movie that EVERYONE is going to buy....examples?: The Recruit, The Passion of the Christ, House of 1000 corpses...among many others. Maybe this is just me ranting, but for 30+ dollars of my cash, I'd like the liner notes, if for nothing else, to make my dvd snapcase fuller, and not have that empty blank side on the inside, but then again you do have the select few directors that take pride in their releases, such as Lucas, Tarantino, and Depalma, who give you the full monty, disc and a booklet, not just an inlay card, but a full booklet. I guess my point here is to et some feedback, so that I don't look like the only obsessed movie geek here.

[SamEagle]

While I didn't buy any of your examples, I get your point, and yes I agree. I feel cheated when I get a DVD that has an empty case. If nothing else, they could at least throw in one of the cheap inserts that just has a chapter listing. For any somewhat decent release, there's no excuse for having at least some sort of insert.

[Devon_UK]

I agree. Imagine if you bought a CD and it had no inlay?!

What is very annoying are those double dvd disc cases with the push buttons on both faces and no inlay clip holder!

[CYF Tequila]

Pffft. I could care less if there's no insert in the case. Most of them usually contain chapter listings. Besides, if you do really want to watch a particular scene, you've gotta go through the scene-selection menu anyway.

If I paid $30 for a DVD, I'd prefer an excellent audio and video transfer, and some decent extras over an insert any day.

[Country1969]

I am also upset with this insert problem.
They used too have the insert/chapters awhile back, but many stopped putting them in.

Also it would be nice to have more offers inside for discounts off other movies.
Also the proof of purchase tab should be seperate from the cover or chapter card. You use them for money back on selected dvds,put them seperate so we don't have to cut our covers up.

I wish those people would use their heads more.

[The Engraved]

This bugs me too. Yeah, I know that the main reason I buy the dvd is for the movie itself, but the dvd case looks empty without a liner note or booklet. And, when it comes to the special editions, I expect at least a liner note. I bought the special edition of Shawshank Redemption and was surprised it didn't have one. This is suppose to be the ultimate edition of Shawshank. WTF. I expected a booklet with a couple of pics at least.

[Slim_JGE]

I have never understood this. How can a studio be so cheap as to not AT LEAST include a chapter listing, a one card piece put in there is not too much to ask with how much money is spent on these fuck'n things.

[Devon_UK]

I've just got the repackaged X Files Box Set in the UK and I must say that their inlays are brilliant! Decent quality paper in gloss along with other promos and stuff about X Files.

[Ted Pikul]

Inlay cards have been dispensed with because the studios found that nobody reads them.

[bourahioro]

Originally posted by Ted Pikul
Inlay cards have been dispensed with because the studios found that nobody reads them.

How the fuck would the studios know if buyers are reading their inlay cards? I know I haven't gotten a visit from some suit saying "umm, excuse me, but I see here you bought the film Scarface the other day, and what I really want to know is: have you read your inlay card?" And strangely enough, I haven't gotten a phone call like that either.

:D

[Scully1888]

Originally posted by bourahioro
Glad you thought out what you wrote before you posted to this thread, thanks for trying, now...on to someone competant. Watch yourself my friend... read the rules.

Incidentally, it's "competent", as in "your spelling is incompetent". :rolleyes:

Going back on topic...

Originally posted by bourahioro
you do have the select few directors that take pride in their releases, such as Lucas, Tarantino, and Depalma, who give you the full monty, disc and a booklet, not just an inlay card, but a full booklet.The choice of whether or not inlay cards are inserted is not made by the director, now THAT's an "incompetent" statement to make. Can you seriously imagine Lion's Gate saying "yeah, we wanted to add an inlay card, but Rob Zombie didn't want one"?

Or 20th Century Fox saying "that's the DVD nearly finished, all we need now is for Lucas to design the inlay card"?

The choice of an inlay card comes down to a number of factors including the studio (20th Century Fox usually put inlay cards in, for example), how complete the whole DVD package (disc, extras, etc) is intended to be (which is why 2-disc special editions like Pulp Fiction tend to have large booklets... because that's the definitive edition and it's unlikely there'll be another one coming out any time soon), and, of course, cost purposes (which is why you'll never get an inlay card with those cheap $2.99 discs you get at the cheap rack in Best Buy. And I don't mean 'you' personally before you start any of that).

Crediting Lucas, De Palma and Tarantino with something as ridiculous as that is giving them undue praise. Sure, they're great directors, but that doesn't mean they're any good Photoshop or DVD manufacturing and marketing.

Now... on to someone competent. :)

[Ted Pikul]

LOL.

[bourahioro]

The choice of whether or not inlay cards are inserted is not made by the director

Or 20th Century Fox saying "that's the DVD nearly finished, all we need now is for Lucas to design the inlay card"?


Crediting Lucas, De Palma and Tarantino with something as ridiculous as that is giving them undue praise. Sure, they're great directors, but that doesn't mean they're any good Photoshop or DVD manufacturing and marketing.

And while I am sure, these statements are at least partially true, I am sure that someone like George Lucas would have at least some artistic say in his DVD releases, and would likely not need to know how to use photoshoop to say "yeah, that's good" or "no, I don't like that"

Lucas, Tarantino, and other such directors who are known for their hands on approach, would likely want to be invilved in all aspects of their releases, now again, I am not saying that these guys sit night and day wondering how to fit things together with photoshop or whatever, but when it comes down to it, these guys get what they want.

now to rethink the issue at hand, while the respective companies do have lots of say as to whether or not a movie like Wonderland, gets an inlay card, there are some writer/directors that will definitely get say in such matters.

now, what matters to me is that I get my damned inlay card.;)


oh and Ted Pikul...sorry for being a dick.