The Princess and The Frog Blu-ray and DVD Discussion

[BK]

Wait a minute. There's no indication that TPATF DVD is OOP. It's still available online from retailers and as of yesterday, still on shelves.

Going OOP doesn't mean it's recalled, just that once it's out of stock, nothing will replace it.

[The_Iceflash]

Wait a minute. There's no indication that TPATF DVD is OOP. It's still available online from retailers and as of yesterday, still on shelves.

Going OOP doesn't mean it's recalled, just that once it's out of stock, nothing will replace it.

Nonetheless, there's nothing we have seen that indicates that it is OOP.

[BrandonH]

Wow. For spawning three discussion threads about the movie itself, the Blu-ray and DVD did not get much feedback after release. Here are my general thoughts.

The presentation of the movie on the Blu-ray is great. The extra features, though, are pretty lackluster. There are some good pieces of information in the commentary, but a lot of it is just identification and praise of the animators and other collaborators. The web featurettes and making-of are very short and insubstantial. The deleted scenes are the most solid extra feature by far.

I don't expect the next Aladdin in terms of features, but even Meet the Robinsons got better treatment than The Princess and the Frog.

[PatrickvD]

I agree, not a lot of discussion.

Anyway, I got the Blu-ray a few weeks ago but haven't found the time to watch it yet.

[estefan]

Yeah, I was hoping for more features, but the commentary is good enough, that it doesn't bother me too much. The picture and audio quality is fantastic, with "Almost There" probably being the most impressive. The sound especially boomed at the end of the number.

[jpanimation]

Well this is what I posted on the Blu-ray as part of my movie review:

I rented the Blu-ray and while it looked great, I'm glad I didn't buy it. It was basically a tricked out barebones release and I'll wait for a more substantial 2-Disc release. The 20min documentary, deleted scenes, video reference feature, and art galleries were nice but everything else was worthless promotional material from their website. The documentary skipped over way to many people and aspects of the film to make it worth while (Randy Newman barely got to talk about the music, none of the animators really got to talk about their inspiration for their characters, and Ron and John didn't really talk about how they came up with this movie [probably want to avoid talking about the controversial original take on the film]). It also lacked no-brainer features, like the original theatrical teaser, promotional material like posters, and the funny Drawing Naveen feature Disney posted on YouTube. It maybe a while, good thing this isn't one of my favorites, but I'll wait for a more substantial 2-Disc release.

[Disneykid]

Actually, the "Drawing Naveen" clip is an easter egg on the Blu-ray.

[Duckburger]

If you're waiting for a two-disc set, you can probably wait for a very, very long time. As it seems Disney doesn't do those anymore, except for the Diamond Editions and some Pixar movies. Wasn't there also some sort of press release a few years ago where they actually said that they would stop producing so many 2-disc sets, with the first ones being The Aristocats: SE and Ratatouille or Cars. Not sure, but I seem to recall something like that.

As for TPaTF, I bought the blu-ray on release date here in Holland, but due to exams I haven't had much time to watch it. Though I did pop it in for a second, and the picture was excellent.

[ajmrowland]

And yet, they still produce DC discs and slipcovers.

[BwayJ]

http://www.the-numbers.com/dvd/charts/annual/2010.php

The-Numbers.com reports that Princess is the 6th highest selling DVD of the year so far with over 4 million units sold and over $69 million in revenue. It outdoes Alvin and the Chipmunks by 3 slots on the chart, over 300,000 units and over $2 million. Consider my next action spiteful if you will, but I feel like a hearty laugh over this small victory:

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[DisneyJedi]

http://www.the-numbers.com/dvd/charts/annual/2010.php

The-Numbers.com reports that Princess is the 6th highest selling DVD of the year so far with over 4 million units sold and over $69 million in revenue. It outdoes Alvin and the Chipmunks by 3 slots on the chart, over 300,000 units and over $2 million. Consider my next action spiteful if you will, but I feel like a hearty laugh over this small victory:

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That's great.

[ichabod]

Forgive me if this has been addressed.

Not sure if this issue only applies to the UK blu-ray, but it's something that I've just noticed.

In the movie Tiana has a picture on which her dad wrote 'Tiana's Place'. I remembered this from seeing the movie in theatres. So when i recently got the UK blu ray was confused to see that the picture just reads "Tiana's". Checked the DVD copy and that says "Tiana's place" as it should.

I can only assume this potentially has something to do with the same disc being issed in non Englsh speaking territories. But then the same would apply to the DVD.


Does this issue affect the blu-rays in any other countries.

[Sky Syndrome]

In the movie Tiana has a picture on which her dad wrote 'Tiana's Place'. I remembered this from seeing the movie in theatres. So when i recently got the UK blu ray was confused to see that the picture just reads "Tiana's". Checked the DVD copy and that says "Tiana's place" as it should.

This made me think of Looney Tunes constantly using "Eat at Joe's" signs. Anyway, that's strange 'Place' is missing.