March 2008: Cloverfield on Blu-ray speculation

[jamclaur]

So before a million of you tell me to use the search key, I'd like to both tell you that I did use the search key, and I found a thread that this would have been posted under had it not been a locked thread... For whatever reason the mods choose to lock a completely legit thread is their own...

Anyway... I'm not so much wondering a date as I am about content.

I read from MediaZEALOT
http://mediazealot.blogspot.com/2008...eculation.html

Paramount was well into the HD DVD development of their 2008 blockbuster hit Cloverfield and the studio was aiming for an April shelf-date. Over a month's work was put into HD special features including new story content and viral campaign back story. It now appears that these features may never see the light of day.

Due to the death of Toshiba's HD DVD format, and the end of their exclusivity agreement with Paramount, the movie studio is now scrambling to release Cloverfield on Blu-ray disc. However, Paramount plans to keep their original release date of April this year. Many are speculating that, due to time constraints, the disc will be a bare-bones affair with no special features to be found.

Now what i'm wondering... is that with the release of BD-Live do you all think that these features be available for download later? Isn't that one of the main selling points of BD-Live?

If not... Maybe i'm just not understainding the full implications and use of BD-Live.

Tangent- I hate buying multiple copies of films for different special features, isn't BD-Live the thing I've been dreaming of all my life?

thanks (in advance)