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A paragraph from my essay.

This excess can also be seen in DVD packages and CDs. I was struck by this most recently when Shaun Micallef told viewers of television show Your Generation to go to the website to see “all the things that weren’t good enough for the show.” If they weren’t good enough for the show, why would we want to watch them at all? The same goes for deleted scenes in DVD packages, twenty seconds of out-of-context content that is presented as a special feature. These scenes aren’t integrated into the film and therefore have no impact on the plot, in short, they are unnecessary and a waste of space. But digital technology allows us to have this space, so people feel the need to fill it up, with no respect to quality. This can be seen on music CDs too. Because there is more space on a compact disk than there was on a long-playing record, musicians don’t need to edit, and end up with a mediocre album that gets boring when they could have made a shorted album with more impact.