Nightmare Before Christmas Blu-ray - Coming Soon

[Jules]

How are they going to recreate the Disney Digital 3D effect on a Blu-Ray disc? Anyone know?

[singerguy04]

How are they going to recreate the Disney Digital 3D effect on a Blu-Ray disc? Anyone know?

I'm really not sure, but I would assume it'd come with maybe 2 3D glasses and then it'd be a viewing option (like the whole widescreen or fullscreen option on some dvds).

This is really awesome news all around, I would love to get this Blu-ray. I just hope that everything on the 2-disc set would be on the Blu-ray.

[Jack Skellington]

Oh cool I'm glad everyone is following my lead in supporting Bluray this means that I can expect more Disney movies to get released on the new format !

[marlan]

Recently I bought Nightmare Before Christmas on Ultra HD (2023 release). As the UHD only presents the movie, all the extras are on the Blu-ray that is included in the package.

The old Blu-ray was labelled Collector’s Edition (2008), and the new one is Sing a long Edition (apparently from 2013). I thought I could sell the older blu-ray to avoid unnecessary duplicates. (Both discs are Scandinavian editions.)




However, after examining and comparing the Blu-rays, it became obvious that the older BD is a keeper. Why? The older disc (A) has more bonus features — especially the early film Vincent (1982) and some other minor extras.

Also (B) the transfer of the short film Frankenweenie (1984) is better on the older disc. It almost seems as if the older disc has a digital transfer and the newer disc an analogue transfer (suffering from interlacing artefacts). Both are Standard Definition (480i60), though.

To demonstrate this, I created a small video comparison:

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Collector’s Edition (2008)


Sing a long Edition (2023)


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Collector’s Edition (2008)


Sing a long Edition (2023)


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Collector’s Edition (2008)


Sing a long Edition (2023)


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Collector’s Edition (2008)


Sing a long Edition (2023)


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Collector’s Edition (2008)


Sing a long Edition (2023)


Technical stuff:

Collector’s Edition (2008)


Sing a long Edition (2023)


Collector’s Edition (2008)

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Disc Label: NIGHTMAREBEFOREXMAS_GBR
Disc Size: 45,908,855,571 bytes
Protection: AACS
Playlist: 00005.MPLS
Size: 2,128,091,136 bytes
Length: 0:30:05.436
Total Bitrate: 9.43 Mbps
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 8366 kbps / 480i / 29.970 fps / 4:3 / High Profile 3.2
Audio: English / Dolby Digital Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz /   192 kbps / DN -27dB
Audio: German / Dolby Digital Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz /   192 kbps / DN -27dB
Subtitle: English / 6.210 kbps
Subtitle: French / 5.291 kbps
Subtitle: Italian / 5.461 kbps
Subtitle: German / 5.964 kbps
Subtitle: Spanish / 5.443 kbps
Subtitle: Norwegian / 5.325 kbps
Subtitle: Danish / 5.549 kbps
Subtitle: Swedish / 4.562 kbps
Subtitle: Finnish / 5.266 kbps
Subtitle: Icelandic / 5.574 kbps
Subtitle: Dutch / 4.379 kbps

Sing a long Edition (2023)

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Disc Label: THE_NIGHTMARE_BEFORE_CHRISTMAS
Disc Size: 47,803,023,306 bytes
Protection: AACS
Playlist: 00722.MPLS
Size: 1,993,771,008 bytes
Length: 0:29:59.831
Total Bitrate: 8.86 Mbps
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 7999 kbps / 480i / 29.970 fps / 4:3 / High Profile 3.2
Audio: English / Dolby Digital Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz /   320 kbps / DN -27dB
Subtitle: English / 8.693 kbps
Subtitle: Spanish / 7.195 kbps
Subtitle: Danish / 6.928 kbps
Subtitle: Finnish / 6.295 kbps
Subtitle: Norwegian / 6.809 kbps
Subtitle: Swedish / 6.838 kbps

[Disney's Divinity]

The extra bonus features is why I made sure to get that older release on Disney Movie Rewards before the site went under.