The Digital Bits has posted a transcript of the on-line chat with DVD producer Van Ling, held on Monday, December 9th on The Home Theater Forum. Here's just a snippet:

[Jake_Jarmel] Hi. What was your biggest dissapointment at some bonus features you had to drop.. say, for bandwidth restraints, or political reasons (star wouldn't sign off on it, etc.)? The one that made you really FIGHT for it, but you still lost.. the one where you said "man, the fans would REALLY have loved to have that on there :(" ? as for True Lies, ELiza Dushku audition :)

[VanLing] I'll have to see if Eliza's audition is available for TL... I think that the graphic/text commentary I wanted to do for T2 is one. That was due to time and budget, nothing political. The other items are usually "minor", though not to me and you...like having trailers in 5.1 instead of 2.0, or having full English subtitles for all of the supplements. Sometimes, the bureaucracy wins.

[PaulNyman] thanks for your involvment in producing so many wonderful dvd's and for being here tonight Van Ling! Any plans for Lucas, Lucasfilm, THX to sell copies of the new Ultimate THX Demo DVD? I love those trailers!!! wish Lucasfilm would offer this instead of "R2-D2: Beneath The Dome?

[VanLing] that's a good question. as you know, THX is no longer a part of Lucasfilm, but a company unto its own so I don't know what's going to happen with the Ultimate THX Demo disc. I hope they don't just shelve it, 'cause I worked my tail off on that little thing... ;-) BTW, it's the only DVD out there with the original theatrical version of the TPM Podrace sequence... which is different than the one on the TPM DVD. You can always lobby THX to make it more widely available and if I end up working on the next one, I'll do my best to include everything I can!

[John_Steffens] Van-Hello! Seasons Greetings:) I enjoy your work, I just want to know what are the chances of putting Shrek THX trailer on the next THX DVD?? and have you seen it?

[VanLing] how did you hear about that?? ;-) I doubt it will happen, but you never know. It's a pretty funny trailer, and I'm surprised it's not out there on the web....or is it? I don't know. I will certainly ask THX about it, but I think it may be a sore spot