[Spliff]

My DVD player remote has a button on it called "Camera Angle." With every DVD I play, I press this button, but all I get is the not permitted symbol.

What is this button for?

[rozwado1]

Pornography. Try it sometime.

[The Godfather]

Porn on DVD is outrageously expensive: $50 and up.

No, I am not picking up a used disc.

[Spliff]

Originally Posted by rozwado1

Pornography. Try it sometime.

What happens? Crane shot of the money shot?

[FireWire]

Seriously, it's a vestige of what the technology promised but never delivered. Another example of "Hey! Here's the new technology: you're gonna be able to do this, to do that and even this!" but in the end, only 10% of its possibilities are ever used.

The director can include alternative camera angles, as the name implies, so you can do you own "montage" and get a different perspective, but I've yet to encounter a single movie that make use of that feature.

[rozwado1]

Basically, an icon pops up and lets you know that other angles are available. On my dvd player, you can watch it like PIP and switch between the two. I thought it was cool on the first 2 dvds I saw with it. After that it got old.

[Railroader]

On some concert videos you are able to switch between band members, a traditional footage presentation, or a whole stage view. I like it because it can allow me to focus on what a certain guitar player is doing or you can get a better feels for what it was like to attend the event with the whole stage shot.

But honestly, it's probably used 99.9% of the time for porn

[faragbre967]

Yep, porn.

[The Godfather]

Is this feature available in iMovie/iDVD?

[turtle777]

The Matrix has some angle views.

-t

[vmarks]

The coriolis Beastie Boys Anthology uses camera angles taken from the outtakes of music videos.
It's pretty cool.

[Hal06]

Yes, over-promise then under-deliver… so far I only know about the Star Wars DVD films using it to deliver the introduction text in different languages…

[Eriamjh]

Originally Posted by Inside Man

Yes, over-promise then under-deliver… so far I only know about the Star Wars DVD films using it to deliver the introduction text in different languages…

That's actually seamless branching. It is different than the multi-angle function.

[Hal06]

hence under-deliver…

Nice parrot at your sign BTW, african grey, huh?

[sabrejim]

Yeah. For whateve rreason a lot of DVD's don't use the camwera angle even though it would be appropriae. Most of them make you hit enter to jump to another scene, the times are all desynched and you rewatch a scene. Awful awful. HD DVD kills this crappola.

[FireWire]

Originally Posted by kaze0

Blu-Ray kills HD DVD and this crappola.

Fixinated™

[ghporter]

I've never seen a DVD movie with different camera angles, but in addition to concert videos you can find a number of other types that DO. It's all about the "director's vision" of the film, for what it's worth; the director wants each shot to look a certain way, so they don't bother with additional angles. Where it is appropriate you often do find them.

[zmcgill]

I remember the new Planet of the Apes bragging about having this capability

[Railroader]

I remember some training videos at work using the multi-angle function. Actually, it was pretty neat now that I think about it.