BVHE UK Blu-ray in May/June
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05-04-2007 16:13 | 9027 views
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Buena Vista Home Entertainment have announced their May and early June 2007 line-up of UK Region B Blu-ray Disc releases with Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and Dead Man’s Chest, Dinosaur, Déjà Vu and King Arthur: Director’s Cut all making their UK high definition debuts.
The Pirates of the Caribbean titles each come as a special 75GB 2-disc set, with premium ‘O-Ring’ packaging and extensive, high definition bonus features. The Curse of the Black Pearl includes the fascinating, fully-interactive in-movie Java feature ‘Scoundrels of the Sea’ and with Dead Man’s Chest, a unique ‘Liar’s Dice’ game gives viewers the chance to compete with Bootstrap Bill and Davy Jones at an in-movie challenge of nerve and skill.
Dinosaur also boasts an exclusive short ‘Blu-scape’ film, part of an ongoing series of content features being specially created for Buena Vista Home Entertainment Blu-ray releases. Shot by renowned director and cinematographer Louie Schwartzberg, this fully-interactive material is presented in optimum resolution and individually tailored to each film to get you even closer behind the scenes.
7th May 2007
Dinosaur
14th May 2007
Déjà Vu - Arriving day-and-date with the DVD release the Blu-ray Disc is coded for Region B and includes the following features:
Video:
1080P 2.40: Widescreen
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1: English, French, Spanish
DTS HD Master Audio 5.1: French, Spanish
PCM 5.1: English
Subtitles:
English, English HOH, French, Spanish, Swedish Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Dutch
Extras:
King Arthur Director’s Cut
11th June 2007
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl - Premium O-Ring Packaged 75GB 2-Disc Set features include:
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest - Premium O-Ring Packaged 75GB 2-Disc Set features include:
AV Specs and Region Coding for both Pirates 1 & 2 are...
Coded for all regions (A, B and C).
Video:
1080P 2.35:1 Widescreen
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1: English, Italian, German
DTS HD Master Audio 5.1: Italian, German
PCM 5.1: English
Subtitles:
English, English HOH, Italian, German
Artwork follows...
The Pirates of the Caribbean titles each come as a special 75GB 2-disc set, with premium ‘O-Ring’ packaging and extensive, high definition bonus features. The Curse of the Black Pearl includes the fascinating, fully-interactive in-movie Java feature ‘Scoundrels of the Sea’ and with Dead Man’s Chest, a unique ‘Liar’s Dice’ game gives viewers the chance to compete with Bootstrap Bill and Davy Jones at an in-movie challenge of nerve and skill.
Dinosaur also boasts an exclusive short ‘Blu-scape’ film, part of an ongoing series of content features being specially created for Buena Vista Home Entertainment Blu-ray releases. Shot by renowned director and cinematographer Louie Schwartzberg, this fully-interactive material is presented in optimum resolution and individually tailored to each film to get you even closer behind the scenes.
Dinosaur
- Blu-Scape: "Origins" (5:00) (Blu-ray Exclusive)
- The Monster Cloud (4:09) (Blu-ray Exclusive)
- Movie Showcase (Blu-ray Exclusive)
Déjà Vu - Arriving day-and-date with the DVD release the Blu-ray Disc is coded for Region B and includes the following features:
Video:
1080P 2.40: Widescreen
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1: English, French, Spanish
DTS HD Master Audio 5.1: French, Spanish
PCM 5.1: English
Subtitles:
English, English HOH, French, Spanish, Swedish Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Dutch
Extras:
- Surveillance Window:
- Index
- The Ferry Explosion
- Developing the character of Doug Carlin
- Makeup, wardrobe and special effects
- The Surveillance Window
- Cameras of Déjà vu
- Split Time Car Chase
- Filming in New Orleans (Exclusive to Blu-ray)
- The Team: Denzel, Tony & Jerry
- Stunts: Compound
- Stunts: Ferry
- Deleted & Extended Scenes with commentary by director Tony Scott
King Arthur Director’s Cut
- Movie Showcase (Exclusive to Blu-ray)
- Blood on the Land: Forging King Arthur (18mins)
- King Arthur: A Roundtable Discussion (16mins) (Exclusive to Blu-ray)
- Alternate Ending: “Baldun Hill” with optional commentary (5mins)
- Producer’s Photo Gallery (Exclusive to Blu-ray)
- Knight Vision Pop-Up Trivia Track (Exclusive to Blu-ray)
- Commentary with Director Antoine Fuqua (Exclusive to Blu-ray)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl - Premium O-Ring Packaged 75GB 2-Disc Set features include:
- Scoundrels of the Sea (Exclusive In-Movie Feature)
- ’An Epic At Sea’ – The Making of
- Diary of a Ship
- Diary of a Pirate
- Producer’s Photo Diary with Jerry Bruckheimer (Exclusive to Blu-ray)
- Fly on the Set
- Blooper Reel
- Below Deck – An Interactive History of Pirates
- Deleted and Alternate Scenes
- ”Moonlight Serenade” Scene Progression
- Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Colour (Exclusive to Blu-ray)
- Image Galleries
- Easter Eggs (Exclusive to Blu-ray)
- Enhanced Computer Features
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest - Premium O-Ring Packaged 75GB 2-Disc Set features include:
- Pirates Dice (Blu-ray Exclusive)
- Bloopers of the Caribbean
- Charting the Return
- According to the Plan
- Captain Jack From Head to Toe
- Mastering the Blade
- Meet Davy Jones: Anatomy of a Legend
- Creating the Kraken
- Dead Men Tell No Tales: Re-Imagineering the Attraction
- Fly on the Set: The Bone Cage
- Stills from the Set (Blu-ray Exclusive)
- Jerry Bruckheimer: A Producer’s Photo Diary
- Pirates on Main Street: The Dead Man’s Chest Premiere
- Easter Eggs (Blu-ray Exclusive)
- Pirates on Location (Blu-ray Exclusive)
- Inside Dead Man’s Chest (Blu-ray Exclusive)
- Pirates Around The World (Blu-ray Exclusive)
AV Specs and Region Coding for both Pirates 1 & 2 are...
Coded for all regions (A, B and C).
Video:
1080P 2.35:1 Widescreen
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1: English, Italian, German
DTS HD Master Audio 5.1: Italian, German
PCM 5.1: English
Subtitles:
English, English HOH, Italian, German
Artwork follows...
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Exclusive to Blu-ray sums it all up!:)
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There's hardly much to call - there was only ever a 50/50 chance of either format coming out on top anyway! ;) It's the 1% tilt that's going to matter, but people calling predictions at this point are just flipping coins anyway - there aren't enough strong sales on either side to call this format war close to being won.
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Meet the Robinson's (Blu Ray)
Spider-Man 1 - 3 Box Set (Blu Ray)
Pirates of the Caribbean 3 (Blu Ray)
Fantastic Four Rise of the Silver Surfer (Blu Ray)
Transformers (Paramount - likely to be both formats?)
Ratatouille (Blu Ray)
I have to say, I think Blu Ray has this sealed now.
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Yes.
You forgot
Die Hard 4 (fox)
The Simpsons movie (fox)
28 Weeks later (fox)
The Lives of Others (Sony) (Not a blockbuster but I've heard good things)
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Meet the Robinsons is dire rubbish and Im someone who thinks Domino was good.
Im lucky to have both so Im not fussed who wins but if Blu-ray does win they better adopt the better VC-1 codec,get shut of region encoding fully and tell Fox to pull its act together.
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I Feel that HD-DVD has the better quality but Blu-Ray has the better potential with its larger capacirt and better studio/manafacturer support. I do not think HDDVD's interactivity is a particularly killer App, interactivity was never successful with NUON based dvd players, I think Planet of the Apes was probably the only well known NUON release, NUON never made it to mainstream cos there is no mass market demand for it. Most people (the mass market who will really decide this format was, not us enthusiasts) want to put the film in, watch it and enjoy it and then seperately watch the extras if the feel the need. I like my extras, but have never enjoyed interactivity, so the current absence of BD-J doesnt upset me and HDDVD's interactivity doesnt thrill me.
What I want out of the next gen of discs is what i wanted out of DVD when it first merged. The favourite films in the best sound and picture quality available. HDDVD seems to have the best quality and Blu-Ray the best films (Studios) so its a waiting game. I think the wait will ultimately reveal bluray as the winner, The quality will come and they already have the studio support. Like VHS vs Betamax, Beta was the beter product(IMHO) but the studios went with VHS. BluRays problem is Sony's arrogance but the bluray disc is more nextgen in its design, HDDVD is just is evolution, not revolution.
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If BD does with this battle, it's more a Beta beating VHS than a VHS beating Betamax, if you're going to start going on about technical potential.
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These "blockbusters".. are they to be encoded in MPEG2 (I guess unlikely), 4 or VC1?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_%282005_film%29
I have to say this for Blu-ray though it is getting its Blockbusters out of the door and Disney making this region free is also good news. I have a Japanese PS3 so its Region A but other than Fox titles im finding that the vast majority of UK titles I rent work.
Im glad ive saved up for May as all 3 Pirate titles(the two hollywood films and the porn version) the HD-DVD Matrix boxset and Pokemon Diamond on the DS are going to set me back a bit.
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We've still not actually seen an official press release for the US releases though, hence no announcement on the site.
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On the subject of UK HD releases I went into HMV yesterday with the intention to buy a HD-DVD or Blu-ray disc. I then fell over when I saw the silly prices they were charging for Blu-ray and HD-DVD. Xmen 3 was £29, Speed £29 and on the HD-DVD front King Kong was £20 and Harry Potter £25. This is why I will never bother with the high street again.
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I only have a Japanese PS3 though so I can not test them out on anything but a region A player.
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