Warner Home Video has announced new details and a new date for the upcoming Blu-ray release of 'Beetlejuice: 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition', now due to hit store shelves on October 7th. The release, which will come out three weeks after the DVD, will come on a BD-25 featuring 1080p VC-1 video and a 5.1 Dolby TrueHD soundtrack (including a Dolby Digital isolated score track).
Extras for this release include:
Beetlejuice Cartoon Episodes
A-Ha (RT: 11:08)
Skeletons In The Closet (RT: 10:37)
Spooky Boo-tique (RT: 11:08)
Theatrical Trailer for Beetlejuice (RT 2:30 est)
Exclusive to the Blu-ray release will be a collectible booklet "The Beginner's Guide to Seeing Ghosts" and a six-track CD soundtrack sampler. The track listing for the CD can be seen below:
<< Another BD-25 means I'm out!!! I really like Beetlejuice too! >>
Do you always cut your nose off to spite your face? Don't be daft. If you don't think 25GB is enough space for a 90 minute movie in VC-1 with few SD supplements, then you know practically nothing about video compression. This release sounds fine.
What surprises me is the isolated score (actually, the plethora of isolated scores we've been getting lately). I was under the impression that isolated scores were avoided by studios due to additional licensing costs. I'm glad to see we're being given some anyway.
I would think a BD-25 is a decent sz for the film ... I think even Dark City used about 21GBs for the film portion - So as LONG as they use a good amount of disc space for the feature .. WBS cartoons like Tiny Toons etc they always interlace them etc .. so I don't see them being high quality at all... I would like to see the cartoons released on season sets on standard DVD. I love the cartoons also.
I watched this dvd on my blu ray player recently and it displayed as a square in the middle of my screen. Will the Blu Ray release sort out the aspect ratio etc so it will display in widescreen?
It basically looked like a widescreen film with some screen chopped off either side as well as the top and bottom!!
That is happening because those DVDs are not anamorphic and the letterboxing (black bars) is a part of the actual image stored on the DVD. All Blu-rays are natively 16:9, so they will properly fit in your widescreen TV (with only the minimum required amount of black bars). With Beetlejuice, I believe the Blu-ray image will fill the entire widescreen TV with no black bars.
Already cancelled my preorder for this due to my Warner Boycott. Will probbaly pick it up whenever Warner proves themselves worthy of my money again though. I do enjoy the film
Warner, whenever you
1. Decide to start using Blu-Ray's full potential, and
2. Begin advertising products correctly and with accurate specs...
THEN I'll start buying products from them again.
At least it's supposed to have lossless audio...we'll see.
No bonus features, a BD-25, plus a 3-week street-date delay...I guess I'm supposed to be excited about the free CD (I already own the soundtrack) and the collectible booklet. (Lame.)
