I recently purchased Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 and Tron Legacy on Blu-Ray, which are both really cool! Some of the coolest things about these Blu-ray discs are the special features.

Harry Potter’s awesome special feature is the Maximum Movie feature, which allows you to watch the movie while the cast and crew talk and show clips about the making of the movie, the history of Harry Potter and other really cool stuff, all narrated by Jason Isaacs (Lucius Malfoy). It’s like watch the director’s commentary on steroids and it’s really cool! I love Warner Bros new feature and I really hope that they incorporate it into more of their movies. I didn’t find any cons about this new feature, everything was cool and it gave you a lot of time to look over the videos and etc.

Tron Legacy was watched last night used Disney’s Second Sight feature. This one is a little tricky. First, you have to download the iPad app on the Apple app store, then you have to remember your Digital Copy disc code to enter it to sync the movies, then you have to sync the discs. While the stuff shown on the iPad was really cool, there were a lot of cons. So here it goes:

1. Syncing was a bit of a pain
2. Make sure to shut off all push notifications on your iPad, because it will mess up your sync and you will have to resync
3. There isn’t enough time to check out all the features during the time alloted while watching the movie, you have to resync a lot and then you miss stuff.
4. It’s mostly storyboard drawings.
5. Don’t watch the movie this way if you have never seen it before, because you will spend the entire movie watching the iPad.

So as you can see, Maximum Movie is way cooler. I think that Disney has the right idea, but the timing is horrible. I think if they put less storyboarding photos, then we would have time to look at the massive amount of content they put into the Second Sight.