Quote Originally Posted by Monkeee
ya guys i jut got a DVD-REWRITER and i'm going to start dling DVD-R and just wondering, when you download the DVD-R are they exactly the samething you would get from a retail store?
Usually they will drop some of the extras (things like explaning why the director had a banana in his ear during the explosion scene), trailers for other movies, maybe the menus.

Soundtracks take up a lot of space, so they are usually some of the first to go too. If the movie has been released in multiple languages you will usually find that the subtitles are kept but only one soundtrack. There are usually other versions with different languages in that situation.

Occasionally it is still a little too big to fit on a DVDR5, so then they need to re-encode it to fit, but usually there is no noticable loss in quality.