Kathryn Morris UK

The Sweeter Side Of Life was released on DVD in the United States yesterday (16 July 2013).

The image on the right might be a “3D” shot of the DVD box but the actual product is a lot more one dimensional.  Having got hold of a copy of the disc I thought I’d post an update so if you are considering purchase you’ll know what you are getting.

A comprehensive list of the contents of the disc is as follows:

• The film

That’s it.  Unless you count the main menu and the “scene selection” screens, which I know I don’t.  There are no extras.  Not even the Special Features video KM UK brought to you two months ago.  To be fair, the packaging makes no claims of any extras, and doesn’t even try the common trick of adding the “interactive menus” to a back-of-the-box list of features.  The thing is does add is further disappointment.

The DVD is a single-sided/single-layer disc, meaning it has a capacity of 4.2GBytes.  The film does fill the available space.  Extras would have meant sacrificing some picture quality or go with a more expensive dual-layer disc.  This will be the approach taken with the two-films-in-one-box package with Meddling Mom reported on here last month.  The only complaint about the picture quality that we are not given the option of a full HD Blu-ray version.  What’s the point of using the 4K RED cameras for filming if you are going to shrink that down to standard definition sizes?

So, to sum up: The DVD of The Sweeter Side Of Life contains the film The Sweeter Side Of Life.  To quote a higher intellect than mine “That’s all folks!”