I ordered the Teen Titans DVDs for seasons 1-5 a little while ago and they arrived yesterday. I've been watching them some last night and tonight and although I'm enjoying the shows themselves, I'm rather irritated at the way the DVDs were mastered.

Firstly, both the first and second seasons (all I've watched so far) only have chapter points at the beginning of episodes. Teen Tians is one of those shows whose standard formula is episode opening/teaser then opening credits then show then closing credits. This means that I must fast forward through the opening credits on every single episode rather than just being able to press the chapter forward button.

Secondly, I like to watch shows, even English-language shows, with subtitles on. It makes is easier to follow dialog when there are large dynamic range changes. The first season of Teen Titans came with English subtitles (and French and Spanish), the second season comes with none. I find this very annoying.

Thirdly, every episode before it does the opening/teaser has a 5 second Warner Brothers eyecatch. I can understand having this once per disc (it shows before the menu screen, by the way), but having it before every episode is just poor design.

I suppose the one nice thing about having them set up the episodes this way is that ripping them will be easy (just rip each chapter as a seperate file), but you can really tell that there was no thought put into the authoring. They also commit the sin of having an "Extras" button that brings up a screen saying "Please check other discs for extras" which I consider to be the height of laziness. If there are no extras on the disc, don't have an extras button.

Maybe these problems are due to the creators not having a clear picture of who the likely buyers of DVD box sets are...

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