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Special Features Revealed for Sleeping Beauty Blu-ray
Posted September 15, 2008 12:13 PM by Josh Dreuth
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Walt Disney Home Entertainment has revealed the special features for the upcoming Platinum Blu-ray release of 'Sleeping Beauty', due to hit store shelves on October 7th, day-and-date with the DVD re-release. This three-disc set will feature 1080p 2.55:1 Video with a brand-new 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack.
Extras for this release include:
- Maleficent's Challenge – Go head to head with one of Disney's most infamous villains. Think of anything in the world and Maleficent will read your mind. Keep your wits about you, for that is the only way to defeat her. (BD Exclusive)
- Dragon Encounter – The ultimate audio experience utilizing Blu-ray high-definition 7.1 or 5.1 audio quality. Explore Maleficent's dungeon in a fully-immersive audio sensory adventure like you've never experienced before. Deep in the bowels of Maleficent's dungeon a dragon encounter awaits. (BD Exclusive)
- Cine-Explore – An all new Cine-Explore experience with full motion Picture-in-Picture featuring commentary by John Lasseter, Andreas Deja & Leonard Maltin. (BD Exclusive)
- Restoring The Sound Track – This featurette will cover the creation of the all new 7.1 mix of the score of Sleeping Beauty that was done exclusively for this Blu-ray release using the source tapes from the original recording sessions resulting in an audio experience of superior quality with greater detail and fidelity than you have ever heard before. (BD Exclusive)
- Customized Living Menu – This menu is exclusive to Sleeping Beauty Blu-ray Disc owners only. It is a “real time” virtual castle that magically changes based on the viewer's location, time of day and current weather forecast (requires Live enabled players). If preferred, viewers will also have the ability to manually change the castle's weather to match any of the Magic Kingdom Castles around the world. (BD Exclusive)
- Disney BD-Live Network – The Disney BD-Live Network is just one of the many ways movie lovers, families, and loved ones can continue to stay connected and engage in their favorite movies. (BD Exclusive)
- Movie Chat – Communicate with your remote friends on-screen while in a synchronized viewing party using your remote control or any text enabled device such as a laptop, desk top or any PDA device such as a Blackberry, iPhone or most other regular cell phones. Your chat session will appear over the movie and occur in real-time while watching the movie together.
- Movie Mail – Blu-ray owners will be able to record a personalized video message of themselves, superimpose that capture onto one of many pre-selected clips of the movie, and send it off to a friend, colleague, or relative. This specific feature enables the Sleeping Beauty Blu-ray Disc owner to personalize a very special greeting as never before.
- Movie Challenge – Users will be able to test their skills against other players in a synchronized, real-time, online trivia game while watching Sleeping Beauty with anyone online. Movie Challenge is always active no matter what time of the day it is, and there will always be a game in progress.
- Disney Movie Rewards Live – Sleeping Beauty Blu-ray owners will be able to accumulate Disney Movie Reward Points by participating in many Disney BD-Live Network activities. In return, viewers can redeem points for exclusive content such as Avatars, downloadable extras and many more exciting possibilities.
- Original Disneyland Sleeping Beauty Walk-Through Attraction With Walt Disney Imagineering – A fascinating fully-immersive 3-D experience recreating the original Sleeping Beauty Castle Walk-Through that Walt supervised over 50 years ago. Viewers can choose to tour the attraction in “Auto Mode,” where you get to experience it the way it was originally intended, or choose to view the experience with “Commentary” by Disney's famed “Imagineers” and take a look behind the magic of these detailed dioramas.
- Alternate Opening – Recently discovered storyboards from 1952 reveal that the original opening of Sleeping Beauty was planned as a big musical production number. Using all of the existing color storyboard art, this alternate opening is recreated with a new demo recording of the song - “Holiday.”
- All New Documentary “Picture Perfect: The Making of Sleeping Beauty” – an exciting and inspiring behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the final fairy tale to be produced by Walt Disney himself.
- A New DVD Game, “Briar Rose's Enchanted Dance Game” – Relive this magical moment and help Briar Rose's animal friends to dance, and take lessons to learn to waltz.
- Four Deleted Songs – Four new musical numbers that were not used in the final film are presented using original storyboard art and demo recordings.
- Grand Canyon (Featured in HD on Blu-ray) – This Academy Award® winning short accompanied Sleeping Beauty in its release in theatres.
- The Peter Tchaikovsky Story (Featured in HD on Blu-ray) – An episode of Walt Disney's legendary TV series in which Walt previews the Studio's upcoming release of Sleeping Beauty which uses the Tchaikovsky score as the source of its music. Also included is a dramatic re-enactment of how Tchaikovsky came to write his score for the ballet.
- Four Artists Paint One Tree (Featured in HD on Blu-ray) – This featurette looks at one tree interpreted by four distinguished Disney artists, including Eyvind Earle, the well respected American painter who served as stylist for Sleeping Beauty.
- Fun with English Game – Help the 3 fairies prepare for Briar Rose's 16th Birthday and learn English by playing a series of innovative DVD games.
- And more!
Additionally, fans who pick-up the Blu-ray will also receive a copy of the film on DVD, making it ever easier for those consumer looking to make the switch to high definition Blu-ray.
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Source: Blu-ray.com |
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rgrudinski
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Sep 15, 2008
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Nice, I can't wait! Hope there's an insert in the BD with details and a release date of the next animated classic! That's half the fun of getting Disney home videos. |
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mgrimsley
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Sep 15, 2008
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Now this is what all blu-rays should be about ! |
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SpaceDog
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Sep 15, 2008
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Such an excellent feature list. Looks like Disney is getting Platinum BD off to an incredible start. Bring it on. |
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un4gvn94538
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Sep 15, 2008
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7.1? a lot of extras. wow. hope they keep this up |
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tnlurker
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Sep 15, 2008
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Wow, Nice list of extras.
Disney's support of Blu-Ray is what helped Blu win the war and is going to help push Blu into the mainstream. |
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stockstar1138
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Sep 15, 2008
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2.55:1? thats a wide aspect ratio!
and hip hip hooray for 7.1 PCM! |
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Mr. Spiffy-Pants
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Sep 15, 2008
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"Additionally, fans who pick-up the Blu-ray will also receive a copy of the film on DVD, making it ever easier for those consumer looking to make the switch to high definition Blu-ray."
Whoa! You mean we're getting a full DVD version and not a DisneyFile or whatever version, a bunch of extras, AND 7.1 sound?? Awesome! Way to go, Disney!
Now if only other studios "W"ould "B"e more quality-oriented with their releases... Not that I'm mentioning any names...  |
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Entertainment72
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Sep 15, 2008
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Disney and PS3, what won the HD wars. Listen up studios, 7.1 PCM should be the only audio
codecs released! |
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Lyle_JP
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Sep 15, 2008
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Oh wow! The stuff from the television series "Disneyland, USA" is being presented in High Def. Since all that stuff was shot on film (usually 35mm) it should look fantastic. |
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jurassic_pork
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Sep 15, 2008
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Jeez now these are some special features. This thing is coming fully loaded on all departments...keep it coming Disney |
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parker
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Sep 15, 2008
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Disney once again shows everyone how to do things the right way. |
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CassilineKnight
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Sep 15, 2008
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I'll definitely be buying this one....
Anyone have any boxart pictures? Price? |
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GC Riot
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Sep 15, 2008
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Oh my god! I've had this preordered since it was first announced months ago, but this seems just incredible and a real milestone in quality and quantity. Hope the remaining classic Disney films can offer the same wealth as this... |
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BergerForLife
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Sep 15, 2008
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Wow amazing features. This seems to be the start of something fantastic! |
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Lyle_JP
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Sep 15, 2008
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<< 2.55:1? thats a wide aspect ratio! >>
What's odd is that the film was shot in Technirama, which has an aspect ratio of 2.35:1, and was usually blown UP to 70mm, which has an aspect ratio of 2.20:1. However, it looks like Disney was photographing Technirama to be printed DOWN to Cinemascope at 2.55:1, which is the ratio the artwork was actually composed in. |
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dialog_gvf
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Sep 15, 2008
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Wow, Disney is sure pouring out the love.
Hopefully, everyone will respond in kind. |
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GreatWhite83
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Sep 15, 2008
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"fans who pick-up the Blu-ray will also receive a copy of the film on DVD, making it ever easier for those consumer looking to make the switch to high definition Blu-ray"
How on earth will this encourage people to buy the blu ray? If they want a dvd, they'll just buy the cheaper dvd version. What a waste of money including a dvd. Movie studios should not associate blu ray with dvd.
Apart from that, what an effort. |
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agoofykindasuperman
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Sep 15, 2008
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Umm.. GreatWhite83, this included DVD is great for kids rooms or other areas where there are no blu-ray players in the house. It's obvious that Disney is not charging any extra for the included DVD version ($23.95 on Amazon for the blu-ray set, pretty good deal if you ask me) so I think this is a welcomed bonus to those with kids who are not allowed to use daddy's expensive home theatre equipment except for on family-movie nights. 
Anyway, that being said, I cannot WAIT for this disc to start off my Disney Platinum blu collection!  |
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mntwister
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Sep 15, 2008
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With the soundtrack taken from the original MASTER TAPES, and presented in PCM sound, this is going to be fantastic! Great job Disney! |
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