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Blu-Ray - What constitutes a commentary?
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DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantStar ContributorPantheon
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I've just updated Hancock on BD and am having doubts on a commentary issue.

Neither the box or the onscreen menus list Commentary as an option.

However there IS a PiP feature available through the Special Features menu. When watched it is a behind-the-scenes feature that plays throughout the film. It also has English subtitles.

The profile originally had the PiP feature listed as a commentary with commentary subtitles. I have removed these (including the Commentary audio track - another thing NOT selectable through the audio menu).

Here's the question.....
Being a newbie to BD...am I missing something? Is a PiP actually classed as a commentary?
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It depends on the PiP content.  What you describe sound like a featurette not a commentary.

I have Risky Business on Blu and it has a PiP Commentary (described that way IIRC) with Cruise and the Writer/Director watching/commenting on the film while you watch them comment.  Very silly, audio only would have been fine, but it is definitely a commentary.
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Quoting tweeter:
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Cruise and the Writer/Director watching/commenting on the film while you watch them comment.


Yes, that's what I consider a commentary too.

Hancock's is definitely a behind-the-scenes featurette - no one is 'watching' the movie and commenting on it.
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