> I think it makes some amount of sense. It says, "Hey, this DVD has a lot of cool stuff on it -- it's not just the movie by itself." There are plenty of movies that will never get a DVD with any features beyond the movie itself, and by labeling a disc as a special edition it lets you know right off the bat what the score is.

Yes, I agree with this. I just don't think I got that across because I seem to have skipped a sentence somewhere in my original message. I do approve of the Special Edition label to indicate when a DVD has extra bonus features on it, but it's stupid when it's applied to a DVD that doesn't have anything noteworthy enough to consider an extra or bonus. Those are the DVDs that aren't special in any way.