Disney Blu-ray launches on 19 March

[marzetta7]

Disney Blu-ray launches on 19 March

http://www.mickeynews.com/News/Displ...d_E_2197Launch

Buena Vista Worldwide Home Entertainment has announced that the first European launch of Blu-ray Disc titles will be on March 19, 2007, starting in the UK and cascading out into other European countries very shortly thereafter, depending on the country.
The 12 launch titles include: Eight Below, Chicken Little, Enemy of the State, Flightplan, Gone in 60 Seconds, The Guardian, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Hollywoodland, Pearl Harbor, Scary Movie 4, Sky High, and The Wild.

In addition, Chicken Little will feature two new Java features exclusive to Blu-ray Disc: a filmmaker Q&A and an Alien Invasion game; The Guardian will feature one new Java feature: a filmmaker Q&A; and Eight Below and Flightplan will each include a Blu-Scape High Definition short film feature. (These new features may not be available in all countries due to localisation issues and individual market preference.)

Buena Vista has also announced that Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest will both be released on Blu-ray in May 2007 and coincide with the much-anticipated theatrical release of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. Each movie will be a 2-disc 75GB release and include brand new Java bonus plus all of the bonus features previously released on DVD.

The Curse of the Black Pearl will include an all new Java feature called "Scoundrels of the Sea", an interactive in-movie feature that presents facts onscreen about the legends and lore of pirates. Dead Man's Chest will include a Java feature called "Liar's Dice", a single-player game, shot in live action.

Similarly, Disney/Pixar Cars will be released on Blu-ray in Summer 2007 and will say Disney, "be the ultimate showcase movie for demonstrating just how perfect a picture can look since it's animated and completely based on digital files".

In addition, Cars will include two new Java bonus features.

This will cause a few cannon holes in HD DVDs plan in saturating the market. I totally didn't realize that a new POTC movie was planned for release alongside the release of the older POTC Blu-ray releases, much like how Spidey will play out as well. Nice!

[JTK]

Originally Posted by marzetta7

Disney Blu-ray launches on 19 March

http://www.mickeynews.com/News/Displ...d_E_2197Launch



This will cause a few cannon holes in HD DVDs plan in saturating the market. I totally didn't realize that a new POTC movie was planned for release alongside the release of the older POTC Blu-ray releases, much like how Spidey will play out as well. Nice!

Originally Posted by Random HD-DVD zealot

Those titles aren't 'that big a deal' or 'that important.'

[movies3]

wow i cant wait

[funkybudda]

awesome, the momentum of the blu-ray will be very hard for HD DVD fans to ignore, they really should plan their exit strategy soon

[ProvenFlipper]

Those Java features on the Pirates movies look really nice. I can't wait to get my hands on those discs.

[goodstuff]

LOL, interesting that they're releasing two HD-DVD only titles in their initial batch as well.

[BTBuck1]

when they say 75gb's they mean the feature 50gb and a seperate 25gb disc for special features I assume?

[theknub]

that is my assumption

[dialog_gvf]

Originally Posted by BTBuck1

when they say 75gb's they mean the feature 50gb and a seperate 25gb disc for special features I assume?

That's what I presume. The other way around wouldn't be accepted well by the membership.

Gary

[bluearth]

Originally Posted by Hardcore HD-DVD supporter

.....my grown kids nor me are into soporific Disney movies anymore...

...not much on the other side interests me...

...all studios will eventually come over to the 'winning' side...

...the upconverted DVD will work until all studios come over to the 'winning' side, which is HD-DVD in case you don't know!

This is real believe it or not

[Polyh3dron]

Originally Posted by marzetta7

Disney Blu-ray launches on 19 March

http://www.mickeynews.com/News/Displ...d_E_2197Launch



This will cause a few cannon holes in HD DVDs plan in saturating the market. I totally didn't realize that a new POTC movie was planned for release alongside the release of the older POTC Blu-ray releases, much like how Spidey will play out as well. Nice!

And in other news, Universal is one step closer to supporting BD.

[sticks]

Originally Posted by JTK

Zealot must lead a sad Iife I guess eh.

[coolmilo]

Originally Posted by Polyh3dron

And in other news, Universal is one step closer to supporting BD.

I hope Universal gets off their butts in time for the release of "The Good Shepherd" and "Children of Men." These are both solid 2006 releases and it would be awesome to see them released in Blu-ray.

[jorg]

Originally Posted by BTBuck1

when they say 75gb's they mean the feature 50gb and a seperate 25gb disc for special features I assume?

then i asume it is not possiable to ahve just a triple layer blu-ray?

[fragglerock585]

Originally Posted by jorg

then i asume it is not possiable to ahve just a triple layer blu-ray?

No- Quite the contrary. There have been experiments in 200GB 6-layer discs. If im not mistaken, there are working prototypes also, but they are difficult to mass produce and would not be compatible with currently released players.

[jorg]

so no triple layer then
but wow if the extras were on a 25 gig disc and it was all like games and such that will be somthing lol

[Blackraven]

If current players are capable of reading anything that uses the 25GB/layer spec, then we could see ourselves with up to 150 GB (6 layers) on a single disc.

I dunno but I hope that it's a possible. On the other hand, the 200GB @ 6-layers WON'T WORK because it uses 33.3GB/layer which would require a mandate in the Blu-ray specifications before it could even be made possible.

It's just like how HD-DUD announced 17 GB/layer during CES 2007 expo but can't come out with anything until year 2008

Therefore, they're stuck with 15GB/layer until a change in spec occurs. If worse comes to worse, HD-DUD maybe extinct (or more than 90% damaged) by the time they even make 17GB/layer discs available .

[HDJK]

Originally Posted by ProvenFlipper

Those Java features on the Pirates movies look really nice. I can't wait to get my hands on those discs.

Yep, me too. I already Pre-ordered them on amazon.com