The Island (Dreamworks) on Blu-ray in Europe

[Konrad]

Warner has released "The Island" on Blu-ray in Europe. Just watched it, image and audio are very good (1080p, VC-1, 2.40:1; English, German, French, Italian and Spanish language tracks in DD 5.1 @ 640 kbps). The disc is code-free - I watched it on my U.S. Panny which does enforce regional coding and it played fine.

This is good news since an eventual U.S. release would be an HD-DVD exclusive (Dreamworks). It shows that some Paramount/Dreamworks titles will also be available on Blu-ray in the future (e.g. Flags of Our Fathers was also released by Warner on Blu-ray in Europe so it will continue to be available on Blu-ray, too, even if the Paramount U.S. Blu-ray release should be discontinued).