I've never listened to a Director's Commentary all the way through on a DVD either. but several times I've switched over to it for brief moments when I wanted a little more clarification or insight about what was happening on screen. I also agree that many extra features are worthless, but not always. It can be facinating to see scenes that were cut and why, how they did some technical trick, and even the occasional gag reel. And don't even get me started about the beauty of the goodies in something like the Lord of the Rings Extended Cut box sets for people who love movies.
By the way, PIP DOES rule for keeping track of sports on one channel while you watch another game or a different program.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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I've never listened to a Director's Commentary all the way through on a DVD either. but several times I've switched over to it for brief moments when I wanted a little more clarification or insight about what was happening on screen. I also agree that many extra features are worthless, but not always. It can be facinating to see scenes that were cut and why, how they did some technical trick, and even the occasional gag reel. And don't even get me started about the beauty of the goodies in something like the Lord of the Rings Extended Cut box sets for people who love movies.
By the way, PIP DOES rule for keeping track of sports on one channel while you watch another game or a different program.