Warner Home Video has announced the technical specs and special features for the upcoming Blu-ray release of the teen horror flick 'Final Destination', which is due to hit store shelves on April 7th. Coming on a BD-25, video will be presented in 1.85:1 1080p VC-1 accompanied by a 5.1 Dolby TrueHD soundtrack.
Extras for this release include:
Filmmaker's commentary by writer/director James Wong, writer/producer Glen Morgan, editor James Coblentz, and writer Jeffrey Reddick
Actor commentary by Devon Sawa, Kerr Smith, Kristen Cloke, and Chad E. Donella
Isolated Score (5.1) with commentary by composer Shirley Walker
This is a new line movie which normally would get 7.1 audio....now that warner has their hands all over new line's movies it's 5.1 from here on out. Sad.
so is it safe to say that Warner and NewLine are past the Lossy DD tracks with new and catalog releases? The last lossy release was Journey to the Center of the Earth, Mongol, and The Women, everything released or announnced beyond that has been DolbyTrueHD, so here is to hoping it stays that way. I still havent recovered from the lousy DD track on Speed Racer.
Now all we have to wait for is higher bit rate video from Warner so they can stop using BD-25's and only use BD 50's. Warner has to realize that Blu-Ray is not HD-DVD!
does a movie like this need to use a bd-50 though? do all movies need to use bd-50 simply
because they can? if the best possible sound and picture will fit a on bd-25 what is wrong
with that?
"does a movie like this need to use a bd-50 though? do all movies need to use bd-50 simply
because they can? "
Unless a movie maxes out the bitrate for video and has lossless audio and still fits on a BD-25, then fine but you are probably only looking at 60 minutes max. So yes, all movies deserve BD-50 treatment.
I like Final Destination 1, but I'm really hoping for #2. That opening scene should be killer, no pun intended, on BD.
Too bad New Line isn't around to do this one. I'd take DTS-MA 7.1 over 5.1 TrueHD from Warner any day of the week. Sucks that Warner chose to go the TrueHD route. =( Where's the box set of this one!?!
Love it!!! I was hopeing for all 3 film's but this will do for now. Final Destination is one of my favorite horror flicks and now it's goin Blu. Very cool.
I'll wait for the trilogy set. I have the DVD set, so don't want to have one of the movies on Blu-ray plus a DVD copy that I can't remove from the shelf because it's in a set.
i really don't understand what the deal is with this being 25 gig. that seems plenty big
enough. i thought bit rate didn't really matter all that much. this all gets so confusing.
With the amount of extras that are on this disc, movie length and a lossless audio track this movie definitely needs to have a BD-50. This is still one of my big problems with Warner those bustards!
