Universal HD DVD (UK) in November

19-10-2006 09:00 | 24130 views  |  Dave Foster  |  Show Backlinks

Universal Pictures have released artwork for their first wave of UK HD DVD releases which are due to arrive on 13th November 2006. They are: Apollo 13, The Bourne Supremacy, Doom, Jarhead, Peter Jackson’s King Kong (Theatrical Cut), Serenity and Van Helsing.

Features are slowly coming in and will be updated below as we get them. All titles are expected to retail at £19.99.

Apollo 13
  • 1080P 2.35:1 Widescreen
  • Dolby Digital-Plus: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish
  • Subtitles: English SDH, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Korean, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese
  • Audio Commentary with director Ron Howard
  • Audio Commentary with Jim and Marilyn Lovell
  • Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13
  • Conquering Space: The Moon and Beyond
  • Lucky 13: The Astronaut’s Story

The Bourne Supremacy
  • 1080P 2.35:1 Widescreen
  • Dolby Digital-Plus: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish
  • Subtitles: English SDH, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Korean, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese
  • Paul Greengrass commentary
  • Explosive Deleted Scenes
  • Matching Identities: Casting
  • Keeping It Real
  • Blowing Things Up
  • On the Move with Jason Bourne
  • Bourne to be Wild: Fight Training
  • Crash Cam: Racing Through the Streets of Moscow
  • The Go-Mobile Revs Up the Action
  • Anatomy of a Scene: The Explosive Bridge Chase Scene
  • Scoring with John Powell
  • The Bourne Mastermind
  • The Bourne Diagnosis
  • Presented by Toshiba: Bourne Instant Access (HD Content)

Doom
  • 1080P 2.35:1 Widescreen
  • Dolby Digital-Plus: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish
  • Subtitles: English SDH, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Korean, Swedish, Danish, Finish, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese
  • Featurettes:
    • Basic Training
    • Rock Formation
    • Master Monster Makers
    • First Person Shooter Sequence
    • Doom Nation
    • Game On

Jarhead
  • 1080P 2.35:1 Widescreen
  • Dolby Digital-Plus: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish
  • Subtitles: English SDH, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Korean, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese
  • Audio commentary with director Sam Mendes
  • Audio commentary with screenwriter William Broyles Jr. & author Anthony Swofford
  • Jarhead Diaries
  • Background with Introduction by director Sam Mendes
  • Semper Fi: Life After the Corps
  • News Interviews in Full
  • Swoff’s Fantasies
  • Deleted Scenes

King Kong
  • 1080P 2.35:1 Widescreen
  • Dolby Digital-Plus: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese
  • Subtitles: English SDH, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Korean, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese, Mandarin, Greek

Serenity
  • 1080P 2.35:1 Widescreen
  • Dolby Digital-Plus: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish
  • Subtitles: English SDH, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Korean, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese
  • Feature Commentary with Writer/Director Joss Whedon
  • Deleted Scenes with commentary by director Joss Whedon
  • Outtakes
  • Joss Whedon Introduction
  • Future History – The Story of Earth That Was
  • What’s In A Firefly
  • Re-Lighting the Firefly
  • A Filmmaker’s Journey

Van Helsing
  • 1080P 1.85:1 Widescreen
  • Dolby Digital-Plus: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish
  • Subtitles: English SDH, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese
  • Bloopers
  • Bringing the Monsters to Life
  • Feature Commentaries with Director Stephen Sommers and Producer Bob Ducsay
  • Feature Commentary with Richard Roxburgh, Shuler Hensley and Will Kemp
  • Van Helsing: The Story, The Life, The Legend
  • Track the Adventure: Van Helsing’s Map
  • The Music of Van Helsing
  • Dracula’s Lair is Transformed
  • The Masquerade Ball Scene “Unmasked” Part 1
  • The Masquerade Ball Scene “Unmasked” Part 2
  • The Art of Van Helsing

Artwork follows…







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#1 Posted: 19-10-2006 08:44
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Report this post		Everything on that list that I want, I already own on DVD, which is annoying because I'll be having to rebuy now!

Do Blu Ray players let you play normal DVDs? And do either of the next generation format players upscale DVDs?

Still not liking the stupid tagline at the bottom. Apart from having really bad English, it looks ridiculous too.
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#2 Posted: 19-10-2006 09:20
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Do Blu Ray players let you play normal DVDs? And do either of the next generation format players upscale DVDs?

Yes, both play normal DVDs and upscale them too.
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#3 Posted: 19-10-2006 09:37
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Report this post		The Pioneer Blu-ray player doesn't play CDs, not that I can see a real reason today why you'd need to. I've not heard the Sony can't.
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#4 Posted: 19-10-2006 14:14
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Report this post		All these Dolby Digital-Plus tracks are going to take up a lot of space. I really hope the transfers don't suffer as a result.
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#5 Posted: 19-10-2006 16:26
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Report this post		Any news on whether they are likely to be 24fps or the usual 25fps PAL speedup?
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#6 Posted: 19-10-2006 16:32
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Any news on whether they are likely to be 24fps or the usual 25fps PAL speedup?


The running times match the theatrical prints, so 24fps.
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#7 Posted: 19-10-2006 17:31
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Report this post		which cut of DOOM is it
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#8 Posted: 19-10-2006 17:46
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which cut of DOOM is it

If they re-use the same transfer as the US release, it should be the unrated cut.
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#9 Posted: 19-10-2006 18:59
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Report this post		Doom runs 1hr 53mins so yes, it looks to be the Unrated Cut.
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#10 Posted: 19-10-2006 19:46
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Any news on whether they are likely to be 24fps or the usual 25fps PAL speedup?


The running times match the theatrical prints, so 24fps.


But am I right in thinking this is achieved via good old 3:2 pulldown? As I understand it HD-DVD doesn't support true 24fps footage - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24p#24p_in_high_definition_disc_formats

Or am I missing something?
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#11 Posted: 19-10-2006 21:49
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Report this post		Have all the extras survived from the american release or have they omitted somthing to make space for the dubbed languages?
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#12 Posted: 20-10-2006 15:18
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Any news on whether they are likely to be 24fps or the usual 25fps PAL speedup?


The running times match the theatrical prints, so 24fps.


But am I right in thinking this is achieved via good old 3:2 pulldown? As I understand it HD-DVD doesn't support true 24fps footage - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24p#24p_in_high_definition_disc_formats

Or am I missing something?

I honestly don't know. I should probably have said the running times match the theatrical prints/ntsc releases and left it at that. I know the Studio Canal HD DVDs are meant to be 1080/24 though.

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Have all the extras survived from the american release or have they omitted somthing to make space for the dubbed languages?

So far it's looking good, even Jarhead has the full quota of extras (some of which never even made it onto the R2 DVD release). The only question mark is King Kong, which appears to be barebones. Though at this time we don't know the specific content of the US release either.
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#13 Posted: 20-10-2006 15:20
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Report this post		Apollo 13 & Van Helsing specs added. Just waiting on Serenity now.
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#14 Posted: 20-10-2006 15:24
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The only question mark is King Kong, which appears to be barebones. Though at this time we don't know the specific content of the US release either.

According to the HD DVD Format Blog, King Kong's US release will come with the "U-control" feature, which "will include Picture-In-Picture access to behind-the-scenes bonus materials..., among others. This announcement is currently applicable to the North American release of the HD DVD. The availability of this interactive feature on the HD DVD release due in other regions is yet to be confirmed." This was just announced today, so it may be that information regarding the UK release will turn up shortly.
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#15 Posted: 20-10-2006 15:56
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Report this post		That's interesting. If the UK release stays barebones then I can live with that when it's coming free with the 360 HD Drive :)

Serenity specs now up.
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#16 Posted: 20-10-2006 19:17
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Report this post		If these have the same specs and extras (except for additional language and subtitle tacks) as the US discs I am more than pleased and can consider buying several of them.

Let's just hope Warner's european slate bring us Superman Returns and Batman Begins with all extras and TrueHD sound :)
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#17 Posted: 20-10-2006 20:44
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The Pioneer Blu-ray player doesn't play CDs, not that I can see a real reason today why you'd need to. I've not heard the Sony can't.

Actually neither the Pioneer or the Sony can play CDs. I wouldn't consider it a dealbreaker, but it's odd to say the least.
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#18 Posted: 21-10-2006 11:44
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Report this post		One thing they need to do is make these covers reversable, those ratings logos are horrible.

I believe both formats store the video as 24p and the players do the PAL/NTSC output. Apparently players that do 24p out and displays that can accept that are coming, at least for Blu-ray
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#19 Posted: 21-10-2006 17:24
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One thing they need to do is make these covers reversable, those ratings logos are horrible.

I believe both formats store the video as 24p and the players do the PAL/NTSC output. Apparently players that do 24p out and displays that can accept that are coming, at least for Blu-ray
Yeah, they really should. A lot of studios in Australia and New Zealand do reversable covers but not here...

And yes, these HD DVDs seem to be 24p. The output will not be PAL or NTSC unless you're hooked up through Composite or S-Video, in which case the output will be NTSC (no PAL anywhere).
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#20 Posted: 23-10-2006 22:29
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One thing they need to do is make these covers reversable, those ratings logos are horrible.

I believe both formats store the video as 24p and the players do the PAL/NTSC output. Apparently players that do 24p out and displays that can accept that are coming, at least for Blu-ray
Yeah, they really should. A lot of studios in Australia and New Zealand do reversable covers but not here...

And yes, these HD DVDs seem to be 24p. The output will not be PAL or NTSC unless you're hooked up through Composite or S-Video, in which case the output will be NTSC (no PAL anywhere).


So does this mean the end of NTSC pulldown and PAL speed-up?
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#21 Posted: 24-10-2006 15:36
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So does this mean the end of NTSC pulldown and PAL speed-up?

That's what I'm praying for.
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#22 Posted: 24-10-2006 15:50
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So does this mean the end of NTSC pulldown and PAL speed-up?

That's what I'm praying for.


I was able to speak with someone at Sony yesterday about this and they made an interesting point that I'm going to assume is accurate. Providing you have a player that outputs 1080/24 and a screen which accepts 1080/24 then you'll get a perfectly smooth image.

If however the player or screen only outputs or accepts 1080/60 (which is most common apparently with very few screens capable of 1080/24) then 3:2 pulldown will have to be performed.
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#23 Posted: 25-10-2006 17:47
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Report this post		Yes, for a short while we'll still have to put up with converting the video to 60hz so we can watch it (and that means slight judder), but one day we'll have screens and players that will let us watch at 24fps.
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#24 Posted: 30-10-2006 17:25
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Report this post		Thumbs up for the subs ;)
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#25 Posted: 03-11-2006 23:28
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All these Dolby Digital-Plus tracks are going to take up a lot of space. I really hope the transfers don't suffer as a result.


Don't HD-DVDs have the ability to support more surround-tracks than regular DVD, without degrading the picture quality? :confused:
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