A first world country like America isn't very good at making at being economically hard up. We're still in the middle of a recession but we want to pretend nothing's changed.
I could get on a whole thing about how fixed the recession was, but I don't want to. Truth is, it wasn't that bad... for the corporations at least. The little guys? They never were NOT in a recession. The market's doubled in value since it dropped. Something's fishy that our unemployment rate's so high. And the only reason why we can afford crap now is because it's cheaply made by slave labor overseas. But we all know that, right?
I've said it one time too many, but withholding special features for a premium release that's used as leverage to sell a premium device that ONLY appeals to quality nerds and technogeeks is a cheap move. There is no money lost if they at least put the deleted sequences on the standard one.
Had this been just a case of 1 disk and 2 disk standard DVD releases, there's choice. But since it's blu vs DVD, it's all about selling machines that,
while they do work on inferior televisions, demand a high quality television with a sound system to notice much of a difference. I got a piece of garbage that's 12 years old and just as tall. Mono. That's like buying a monster truck to drive around safely in a cul de sac.
Sure, a small number of families are starting to buy blu players, but it's not catching quite on as fast as everyone thinks. I literally know NO ONE that has a device that even plays the darn things. The one that did, their Playstation broke.