
Sleeping Beauty Confirmed for DVD AND BLU-RAY in 2008 !!!
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Hmmm...I hadn't thought of that. It would really depend on what's on the Blu-ray that's not on either the 2003 or the PE DVDs. Normal DVDs do work on Blu-ray players (if I ever get a Blu-ray player)...do standard DVD players not work with high-def TVs? Since we have satellite cable, we don't need to switch to high-def TVs, though...I really don't understand all the switching-to-high-def-TV stuff that's happening in February, but I think only people with bunny ears on their TVs need to switch...so maybe I won't ever have to buy a Blu-ray player or a high-def TV, right?2099net wrote: Incidentally Amy, perhaps you should keep your SE DVD and buy the Blu-ray - I'm sure it won't be long before you "switch" (let's face it, it's inevitable at some point) and then you get the best of both worlds (and commentaries with visuals)![]()
Anyhoo, thanks for bringing that up, and I'll keep it in mind once I read the reviews (will the UD review review both the standard and Blu-ray discs?), but unless the bonus features are AMAZING, I don't think that I'll buy a Blu-ray disc, because I have no way of playing it....

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Regarding film-specific stuff, there's "living" menus, a DEHT 7.1 track, a picture-in-picture version of the new commentary, and a Maleficent's Challenge game.Ames wrote:It would really depend on what's on the Blu-ray that's not on either the 2003 or the PE DVDs.
Regarding the BD-Live interactive features:
-Movie Mail - send someone a video message (that will play during a scene you select), and they can watch it when they get to that scene in the movie. For example, I could send you a video message that goes "A boogedy-boogedy-boogedy-boo!", and made sure you'd get it during the moment Phillip bends down to kiss Aurora. Then, when you reach that scene, a notice pops up saying you have a video message. If you decide to watch it, that video message pops up and plays while the movie plays as well.

-Movie Chat - AIM on your Blu-Ray.
-Movie Challenge - answer 15 questions while watching the movie. Score points.
-Movie Rewards - with the points you score from the challenge, as well as from doing the other features, you can unlock special rewards that include: exclusive interviews with cast and/or crew members (that stuff better not be MR-exclusive or I'll throw another fit), wallpapers, ringtones, avatars and sneak peeks at other Disney stuff.
They will work on HDTVs, I think.Ames wrote:do standard DVD players not work with high-def TVs?
On February 17, 2009, all analog signals will cease, and instead all signals/broadcasts will be digital (both high-definition digital and standard-definition digital).Ames wrote:I really don't understand all the switching-to-high-def-TV stuff that's happening in February,
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Thanks, Albert! The only thing in that list that I'd be interested in would be the exclusive interviews with cast and/or crew members. So, I probably won't be buying the Blu-ray disc... I think the whole concept of earning reward points on a DVD is beyond my comprehension...is it like, on the B&tB disc, when you have to play the game to get the code to unlock things?
There was way too much technical information on the digital switchover, but Bobby said that we're fine!
There was way too much technical information on the digital switchover, but Bobby said that we're fine!


To be fair Escapay, the Picture-In-Picture Commentary (Cine Explorer) is likely to be much more than just footage of the participants, Both previous Cine Explorers have had concept, pre-production and production art shown on screen and link out to specially made featurettes (in the same way Dinosaur, Altantis and Finding Nemo linked out).
I think this is very likely because even Disney prototype Cine Explorers on Deja Vu, Chicken Little and The Guardian linked out to external featurettes.
Ratatouille has 2 hours of linked out content. True, some is available on the Disc under different categories, but the majority is available just from the Cine Explorer feature or the Cine Explorer 'Select Featurette' menu. They have a 50GB disc to fill (easily capable of holding a 3.5 hour movie) and the main feature is only 75 minutes! I think we can expect a lot from the Sleeping Beauty Cine Explorer
http://www.bbfc.co.uk/website/Classifie ... enDocument
People moaned about no proper making of for Ratatouille, but its there, on the Blu-ray. 3.5 hours of it in the Cine Explorer (commentary and featurettes), just like Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix got one (via Warner's IME), Blood Diamond got one (via IME) and many others got one on High Def format[s].
Amy, my original point was Blu-ray is here to stay. I may not reach the levels DVD has, but its not going away and with its added content protection, you can bet studios will be pushing Blu-ray over DVD pretty soon. (They sort of already are when you consider my point about missing "making ofs" on DVDs, but having them in a different format on Blu-ray). Players are expected to reach the price point of $150 this holiday season. So it may be worth thinking about upgrading in the 9-18 months anyway.
Blu-ray can be used on normal TVs (but obviously you won't get the full benefit) and normal DVDs can be played on all blu-ray players - in fact if you have a HDTV, normal DVDs look better when played on blu-ray players as they all upscale the DVD (usually more efficiently than the TV alone does).
I think this is very likely because even Disney prototype Cine Explorers on Deja Vu, Chicken Little and The Guardian linked out to external featurettes.
Ratatouille has 2 hours of linked out content. True, some is available on the Disc under different categories, but the majority is available just from the Cine Explorer feature or the Cine Explorer 'Select Featurette' menu. They have a 50GB disc to fill (easily capable of holding a 3.5 hour movie) and the main feature is only 75 minutes! I think we can expect a lot from the Sleeping Beauty Cine Explorer
http://www.bbfc.co.uk/website/Classifie ... enDocument
People moaned about no proper making of for Ratatouille, but its there, on the Blu-ray. 3.5 hours of it in the Cine Explorer (commentary and featurettes), just like Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix got one (via Warner's IME), Blood Diamond got one (via IME) and many others got one on High Def format[s].
Amy, my original point was Blu-ray is here to stay. I may not reach the levels DVD has, but its not going away and with its added content protection, you can bet studios will be pushing Blu-ray over DVD pretty soon. (They sort of already are when you consider my point about missing "making ofs" on DVDs, but having them in a different format on Blu-ray). Players are expected to reach the price point of $150 this holiday season. So it may be worth thinking about upgrading in the 9-18 months anyway.
Blu-ray can be used on normal TVs (but obviously you won't get the full benefit) and normal DVDs can be played on all blu-ray players - in fact if you have a HDTV, normal DVDs look better when played on blu-ray players as they all upscale the DVD (usually more efficiently than the TV alone does).
Most of my Blu-ray collection some of my UK discs aren't on their database
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Ah, I thought it was just a straightforward picture-in-picture, just so Disney could say "Look, you can switch between watching the movie, or watching other people watching the movie and talking about it!"netty wrote:To be fair Escapay, the Picture-In-Picture Commentary (Cine Explorer) is likely to be much more than just footage of the participants, Both previous Cine Explorers have had concept, pre-production and production art shown on screen and link out to specially made featurettes (in the same way Dinosaur, Altantis and Finding Nemo linked out).

Really? I thought they only worked on HDTV's. I guess by "full benefit" that it simply means the TV won't give the full high-definition resolution, but just a standard-definition one?netty wrote:Blu-ray can be used on normal TVs (but obviously you won't get the full benefit)
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I believe Cine Explorer has been bandied about on the Sleeping Beauty Blu-ray, but I'm just speculating what will be on it. But so far (to my knowledge) all Disney 'enhanced viewing' Blu-rays have included branching out (and that also includes the National Treasure Blu-rays and Enchanted with its "Pods").Escapay wrote:Ah, I thought it was just a straightforward picture-in-picture, just so Disney could say "Look, you can switch between watching the movie, or watching other people watching the movie and talking about it!"netty wrote:To be fair Escapay, the Picture-In-Picture Commentary (Cine Explorer) is likely to be much more than just footage of the participants, Both previous Cine Explorers have had concept, pre-production and production art shown on screen and link out to specially made featurettes (in the same way Dinosaur, Altantis and Finding Nemo linked out).Glad to hear it'll be the Cine Explorer feature, then.
And like I say, Disney have potentially 75GB of disc space to fill over the two discs!
http://disney.go.com/disneyvideos/bluray/
Yes, if you navigate to the Sleeping Beauty Blu-ray on this page it lists "Cine-Explore".
Considering you're such a fan of the Audio Documentary on the current SE, I trust you can see the value of the Cine-Explore.
All High-Def players (including the PS3 and my HD DVD stand alone) can be connected via component, and the resolution can be set on the player's set up menu. And often even in SD the high-defintion discs look better! (I think this is because the compression codecs are better and because any imperfections there may be are both slight AND scaled down so appear even smaller!)Escapay wrote:Really? I thought they only worked on HDTV's. I guess by "full benefit" that it simply means the TV won't give the full high-definition resolution, but just a standard-definition one?netty wrote:Blu-ray can be used on normal TVs (but obviously you won't get the full benefit)
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You could buy a blu-ray player today, still play all your DVDs on it, play Blu-ray discs on it and get a HD display later.
However a word of caution, often the menus and text is designed for viewing on a HD display, and can sometimes be all-but unreadable on SD displays unless you're really close to the screen.
So while it is possible to do so, I wouldn't recommend doing so (unless perhaps you have a HDMI compatible computer monitor too which you could use as your display either sometimes or all the time).
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Yep.netty wrote:Considering you're such a fan of the Audio Documentary on the current SE, I trust you can see the value of the Cine-Explore.

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It wasn't meDisneykid wrote:Marky...is that you?2099net wrote: The colours are all wrong, it looks like somebody at Disney went mad with MS paint, the lines are too thick, the voices have been redubbed and the aspect ratio is all wrong.Apart from that, its fine.

I'm glad other people notice the damage as well.
By the way. 2003 SE was the official restoration, after intensive research.
Even the people involved said that was exactly how the film looked in 1959.
Unless the movie looks completely the same in October, the word "restoration" can't be used. I'm going to call it "modernisation".
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Thanks for the bigger logo, Ariel'sprince.
As for this new restoration, it looks like some photos I've seen before around the time the film came out, so...I might believe ths restoration is even closer to how it originally looked.
Even people who made the film may forget exactly how it looked, as long as it looks close enough to how it always has. What I need is to see a documentary that shows them talking to people who worked on the film or saw it when it premiered and have them show original artwork or film negatives along with the restoration to believe they did everything right.
I believe Snow White's restoration is right from the featurette about it with original artists watching it and talking about how it looks like they remember. But that's mostly because Snow White doesn't look different from how it's always looked, just cleaner, perhaps a bit more vibrant. But nowhere near drastic.
Marky, actually 2099net was making fun of people who complain about the way the films look different from how they used to! In fact, his fake complaints about thick lines don't make sense, as usually in these restorations and higher-resolution displays, lines looks thinner. In the screencaps we've seen lines do indeed look thinner but it could just be that everything looks finer in high-resolution and the bright camera flash made bright colors eclipse lines a little. I'll wait till we have the film.Marky_198 wrote:It wasn't me
I'm glad other people notice the damage as well.
By the way. 2003 SE was the official restoration, after intensive research.
Even the people involved said that was exactly how the film looked in 1959.
Unless the movie looks completely the same in October, the word "restoration" can't be used. I'm going to call it "modernisation".
As for this new restoration, it looks like some photos I've seen before around the time the film came out, so...I might believe ths restoration is even closer to how it originally looked.
Even people who made the film may forget exactly how it looked, as long as it looks close enough to how it always has. What I need is to see a documentary that shows them talking to people who worked on the film or saw it when it premiered and have them show original artwork or film negatives along with the restoration to believe they did everything right.
I believe Snow White's restoration is right from the featurette about it with original artists watching it and talking about how it looks like they remember. But that's mostly because Snow White doesn't look different from how it's always looked, just cleaner, perhaps a bit more vibrant. But nowhere near drastic.

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