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For fans eagerly awaiting the Star Trek into Darkness<\/em> Blu-ray release, a lack of bonus content might make them unhappy.<\/p>\n It’s not that there is a lack of extras, but that getting all of the extras would require many different purchases of the same product from different retailers.<\/p>\n The Digital Bits’<\/em> Bill Hunt<\/strong> laid out the problem, after getting his review copy from Paramount and speaking to fans. “As regular readers will probably know, I actually liked the film,” he said. “But when it was finally announced for Blu-ray release, I was surprised at the list of bonus content in the press release, specifically the lack thereof \u2013 just seven featurettes.\u00a0 I quickly sent an e-mail to the studio PR people, asking if this was indeed the complete list of bonus content, and was told that it was.\u00a0 But somehow, I guess I just didn’t believe it.”<\/p>\n And he was right – more extras had been created for the Blu-ray release but they were not all where they should be. ”<\/p>\n “It turns out that more extras were created for this release \u2013 more featurettes and even an audio commentary with director J.J. Abrams<\/strong> and members of his crew,” explained Hunt. “None of it is available on the wide release Blu-ray or Blu-ray 3D SKUs. The commentary can only be found as an iTunes<\/em> ‘extra’ download. And those extra featurettes?\u00a0 Some are on a Target<\/em> bonus disc.\u00a0 Some are on a Best Buy<\/em> bonus disc. And some are only available via CinemaNow <\/em>and VUDU<\/em> downloads.<\/p>\n “That’s right: More than half of the special features created for Star Trek Into Darkness<\/em> were used by Paramount\u2019s marketing team as retailer exclusives.”<\/p>\n The unique content adds up to one hundred minutes of contents, and that’s not counting the two-hour commentary.<\/p>\n It’s rather difficult to believe that the only audio commentary is not on the Blu-ray. It’s one thing to offer the occasional extra bit as a bonus, but to offer most bonus content created for the release in such a manner? It seems that this strategy is not a very good way to treat fans and may well alienate them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For fans eagerly awaiting the Star Trek into Darkness Blu-ray release, a lack of bonus…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2443,2689],"tags":[2760,6170],"class_list":["post-28667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merchandise","category-star-trek-xii","tag-blu-ray","tag-bonus-content"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T'Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"Merchandise<\/a> Star Trek Into Darkness<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek Into Darkness","comment_count":"22","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28673,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28667\/revisions\/28673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}