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They put all those extra titles in there because they can. You may have the wide screen, full screen, extended directors cut full and /or wide screen, director's commentary, etc.
There is room on the disc for all of them even if they total up greater than what would fit on a DVD. There is really only one movie on the disc.
Each version you are looking at is the same movie, only a slight difference in the content or the navigation of this particular version makes it unique. Only the difference may need to be added. In this case you would note a change in the overall size of the title when compared to the others. If only a change in the navigation is occurring, the size of the movie titles would remain the same.
The directors cut for example. With the original you make a menu choice and select it. Specific values are put in your DVD player's register. As the DVD plays through and certain points are reached, the values are compared. If a value is one that matches a number in the DVD navigation file, your player will perform a particular action, like jumping to a different scene, playing additional scenes or skipping some and playing others.
Thats a really rough example but you get the idea. The version you select will no longer allow changes to register values. The Shrink reauthor program will change the nav structure so the register values are entered in for you, the movie is now hardwired to play this particular way each time, although you can still use your remote to move around with.
The studio is making full use of the DVD specification to give the viewer lots of choices. A movie like that can be a challenge to reauthor.
Patience and the preview screen in Shrink help a lot. Try and narrow the choices down by first selecting the wide screen or full screen format, then by viewing the remaining choices, you should be able to pick the one you want. You may need to watch the original, paying attention to the menu choices available. This should give you a better idea of whats available to choose from.
You should be making the choices for the final appearance of your DVD. When you watch the results they will be as you wanted them, because you took your time and did not leave the process to chance.
IMHO,
Frank
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This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 20. April 2004 @ 22:40
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