With what it takes to produce a disc, and the probable unpoularity of it, I don't think it is a great idea.

evergreen,

I like this idea.....it is a marketing tool waiting to happen. DVDs are cheap....witness the 10 gazillion AOL disks each month. And the trailers are available on the internet already in many cases. This provides another distribution channel.

They could even add some background info on the movie, sort of a mini-documentary, to help build your interest to see the real thing.

The only negative I see is the movie maker's desire that you see this on the big screen, as opposed to your TV at home. Usually the impact of the movie trailer is more controllable in a movie studio, where you cannot mute the volume, and you are forced to sit through those clips of movies that are just not interesting to you.

The big studios might not work together on something like this but still I can definitely see a big studio coming out with one of these every month that shows previews of both In-Theater releases and Home Video/DVD releases. And maybe the independents could band together to create one or a marketing company could act as a clearing house for the independents and produce one for a fee.

I think the tipping point on this one would be if there was a way to see a preview and then automatically ad it to a list of movies you want to see or purchase, or even purchase tickets or rent the disc. I guess our DVD players need to get a little smarter/become internet devices for that to work.

This is such a good idea I wonder if it's not already being done, maybe on a small scale.

It's already being done - sort of. Best Buy put out a "free with purchase" DVD of exclusive previews for Hellboy just a week or two ago. I'm pretty sure they've done that sort of thing before.

I like this idea as well.

Another possibility is to have a Trailer DVD of a particular type of movie (comedy, drama, horror, etc.) or of a particular actor (Nicholson, Redford, etc).

don't we already produce enough waste? you obviously have an internet connection and can see trailers and previews on many different sites. these DVDs would be useless in less than a few months time.

relatee to this point,check out www.comingsoon.netwhich among other info on comingattractions, it has a lot of trailers for free.

See also http://upcoming.yahoo.com/

If comingsoon.net worked closer to something like <a href="http://www.gametrailers.com>gametrailers.com (trailers are accessible from front page) I'd be fine with that. For those without broadband or patience, your video rental place could probably offer a service whereby you choose trailers you want to see (at the highest quality available), and they are burned to DVD, complete with menu and everything. Don't know if they'll make it free, but "at all" would be sufficient.