As for Egoyan, he was so enthused about the experience that he went to Asset to design and engineer DVD releases of his three earliest feature films, Next Of Kin, Family Viewing and Speaking Parts, which were not in the Alliance Atlantis library. Next Of Kin and Family Viewing, plus three shorts, will be combined in a two-disc release, with Speaking Parts will be sold separately. All three will include a new director's commentary. My only fear about DVDs is that people's first exposure to a film might come while they are listening to the commentary. That would be a horror.
Commentaries are one of the key reasons for the burgeoning popularity of DVDs.
Some are lame. For The Adjuster, Egoyan sat under headphones in a recording booth while the Asset Digital engineers screened the 102-minute film in roughly two equal segments. He talked as he watched. You get on one track, one theme, and the scene is over. You have to move on.