Black Hawk Down in November
25-09-2006 19:06 | 6418 views | Dave Foster | Show Backlinks
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment have announced the USA Blu-ray Disc release of Black Hawk Down for 14th November 2006 priced at $28.95 SRP each. Following its initial delay Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down is now back on track for a HD release and is confirmed as using a 50GB Dual-Layer disc with a healthy quota of bonus features as detailed below.
“With a richly detailed master and long running time, Black Hawk Down is an ideal title to demonstrate Blu-ray’s 50GB capability, without any compromise in features or quality,” said Don Eklund, Executive Vice President, Advanced Technologies, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Black Hawk Down is also the first Blu-ray Disc title to feature SPHE’s new Blu-Wizard™, a unique playlist technology which lets consumers customize the way they watch special features.
Special features consumers may customize on the Black Hawk Down Blu-ray Disc include:
“With a richly detailed master and long running time, Black Hawk Down is an ideal title to demonstrate Blu-ray’s 50GB capability, without any compromise in features or quality,” said Don Eklund, Executive Vice President, Advanced Technologies, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Black Hawk Down is also the first Blu-ray Disc title to feature SPHE’s new Blu-Wizard™, a unique playlist technology which lets consumers customize the way they watch special features.
Special features consumers may customize on the Black Hawk Down Blu-ray Disc include:
- 1080P 2.35:1 Widescreen
- English PCM 5.1 (Uncompressed)
- English & French DD5.1 Surround
- Subtitles: English, Chinese, French, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai
- Audio Commentary with Author Mark Bowden, Screenwriter Ken Nolan, Producer Jerry Bruckheimer, Director Ridley Scott and U.S. Special Forces Veterans ’93
- “The Essence of Combat – Making Black Hawk Down” Featurettes
- “Getting It Right”
- “Crash Course”
- “Battlefield Morocco”
- “Hymn to the Fallen”
- “Digital Warriors”
- “After Action Report”
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People have commented on here that BD can’t get 50GBs discs out; ignoring the fact that they were always going to be really in mass production by the middle of 2007.
Still at least competition is forcing the BDA to speed up their timetable!
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P.S: This time next year: there will be BOND! ;)
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Originally Posted by RisingSun:
People have commented on here that BD can’t get 50GBs discs out
Correction people have commented Sony have been having trouble getting Dual Layer to work which is a fact but now a moot point as it looks like they've fixed them.
Top stuff. It's a shame both HD-DVD and Blu-ray are sticking to 1 disc releases right now. Agreed it has some decent extras but there are loads more it's missing.
It doesn't help Sony insisting on using PCM (Uncompressed) which must eat up stacks of room, leaving less room for extras. It's this I suspect why we're not getting all the 3 Disc DVD extras.
Still on the other hand at least it's got a Lossless audio format which frankly is more important than all the extras.
p.s - That Layer Cake cover is awful, the UK R2 one is much better.
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Anyway, in short... f**king ace film and can't wait to snap it up and bradavon, your right, that cover is NASTY! :mad:
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People have commented on here that BD can’t get 50GBs discs out; ignoring the fact that they were always going to be really in mass production by the middle of 2007.
Except that they originally promised Black Hawk Down and a bunch of other dual-layer releases back in June, then July, then August, then... Until it's actually on shelves I'm not believing a word of it.
Oh, and I notice the "Beyond High Definition" tagline has now become "Experience High Definition".
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Except that they originally promised Black Hawk Down and a bunch of other dual-layer releases back in June, then July, then August, then... Until it's actually on shelves I'm not believing a word of it.
Not believing what exactly? That BD50 will never happen or that these releases will be delayed again??
The later is still possible since yields are not at full stretch yet.
Feel free to be skeptical but keep in mind that a couple of weeks ago: Samsung confirmed that 50GB discs do work in their machines (at least pre-recorded from studio factories) AND in the last week we have had 3 BD50 titles announced.
(if we presume these two and Superman Returns are BD50 titles)
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Not believing what exactly? That BD50 will never happen or that these releases will be delayed again??
I'm not sure what to believe any more. Blu-ray is a string of broken promises on Sony's behalf. I'm sure dual-layer discs will become available at some point, but at this stage I personally won't believe it until I see it. And I think people are deluding themselves if they think dual-layer releases are going to become common for a long, long time. Which, when you consider that Sony is trying to sell the format based on its supposedly higher capacity, is pretty rich.
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Somehow doubt these will be making their way to HD-DVD any time soon then...
Disappointing, Black Hawk Down would be amazing, but I refuse to buy into Sony's Blu-Rayness after them messing us lot about with the PS3 for it.
Originally Posted by Michael Mackenzie:
Oh, and I notice the "Beyond High Definition" tagline has now become "Experience High Definition".
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And I think people are deluding themselves if they think dual-layer releases are going to become common for a long, long time. Which, when you consider that Sony is trying to sell the format based on its supposedly higher capacity, is pretty rich.
BD50 releases are expected to be common by mid 2007. That was always the timeline. I don’t how many single or dual layer releases you’ll see from now and then, but more dual layers are expected than ever planned.
Of course with the competition they rushed out production and discs than were quite not ready.
I don't think BD should have launched until it was ready, but there you go.
If BD can survive until 2007 then you will see BD 50 - Java/BD Live releases. Which should be interesting.
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Originally Posted by bradavon:
Mid 2007 is a year behind schedule, compared with HD-DVD at launch.
I know exactly!
But if you search the achieves of google you would know that this time last year that HD-DVD would have a 30-25GB advantage for a year.
So it's not surprising for me.
When Superman Returns was announced as BD50 title I was shocked; I would have expected only the one BD50 title from Fox and Sony before the years end.
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Originally Posted by bradavon:
Mid 2007 is a year behind schedule, compared with HD-DVD at launch.
You mean a year behind HD-DVD then, rather than a year behind schedule. BD50 was always meant to debut around 4 or 5 months after launch so it's more or less on track. You can't say BD is a year (or 5 months) behind HD-DVD, 50GB is a big leap over 30GB and HD DVD would never have gone anywhere with 15GB discs, even HD DVD owners can't dispute that. Only a crazy person would say that it isn't worth waiting a few months for a 70% increase in capacity.
I don't know whether BD50 will ever be "common" I don't belive it was ever intended for every title, clearly some titles will fit on a 25GB disc, some won't. It's also easy to forget this is good news for the HD DVD crowd, instead of coding titles to fit into 25GB, Paramount and Warner can aim for 30GB when using the same encodes for both formats.
BD-J titles are also out in Novemeber, I believe all of Fox's titles are BD-J enabled
Originally Posted by Michael Mackenzie:when you consider that Sony is trying to sell the format based on its supposedly higher capacity, is pretty rich.
I haven't heard them make much fuss about capactity. That's been mostly down to the commentators.
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Originally Posted by Michael Mackenzie:
Oh, and I notice the "Beyond High Definition" tagline has now become "Experience High Definition".
Perhaps someone pointed out that "beyond" can also mean "not" in certain circumstances.
David Cronenberg made a similar quibble when told that the Evening Standard had dubbed Crash "a movie beyond the bounds of depravity":
I think that that phrase actually means my movie is not depraved, because if you're 'beyond the bounds of depravity' then you are by definition someplace else, and I thought the film was someplace else.
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You mean a year behind HD-DVD then, rather than a year behind schedule.
Nope a year behind the original release date of these titles.