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With Blu-Ray the victor in the HD format war, this is the first I've heard of any actual titles planned, and this is one that both needs and deserves a quality release:
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A booklet inside 101 Dalmatians: Platinum Edition confirms that following Sleeping Beauty this fall, Walt Disney's 1940 classic Pinocchio will be next in line to receive the two-disc Platinum Edition treatment on DVD and Blu-ray. The animated feature, Walt Disney's second,
has been released twice on DVD but never with more than a trailer for bonus features. It has been out of print since January 2002. |
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Keeping fingers crossed. This is the kind of title I've been waiting for!
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Re: Pinocchio coming in 2009
YES!!!!!
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I'm a sucker for (almost) any animated Disney product. Even if I don't get to watch it for three months.
I'm there.
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Where's a link to that information?
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^ I believe it's inside the 101 Dalmations package which comes out on March 4.
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I got it from ultimatedisney.com
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Re: Pinocchio coming in 2009
Eric,
The only animated Disney release that got bumped as far as I'm aware was The Aristocats.
Sleeping Beauty I have on my calendar for October 7. Anyone care to confirm that date?
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Disney doesn't have a history of delaying their Platinum releases. They've been released like clockwork whenever they were scheduled since the first one, Snow White, back in Fall 2001.
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But what I'm really waiting for is FANTASIA on Blu. |
If Pinocchio is the Spring 09 Platinum release, that leaves the following three in some sort of rotation for Fall 09/Spring 10/Fall 10: Fantasia, Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs, and Beauty & the Beast.
My personal bet would be Fantasia in Spring 2010.
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Eric...
Isn't that the Disney MO? To create demand and then issue for a limited time? We have Sleeping Beauty coming end of this year, Pinocchio next year. Could Aristocats have been on Blu Ray? Probably. But know what? If they don't issue it in BD day and date with the SD, they can RESELL it later down the road. It's typical Disney.
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I'm unsure whether for the new disc of Aristocats they went back to the film elements and created a new transfer or just cropped the old one. I'm guessing the latter.
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What would be nice is since they have an entire 16x9 HD frame to work inside, is that rather than crop the 1.37:1 image to 1.33:1 as is usually done with older Academy Aspect Ratio films for 4x3 TV, they could keep the whole 1.37:1 native apsect ratio in tact which would just silghtly shrink the width of the left/right pillar-bars on each side of the image.
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I will also be all over the Disney classics when they are released on Blu-ray. Now that we have the quality video that HDM gives us, I am actually excited about collecting many of the classic titles that I wouldn't have purchased on SD-DVD.
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Just as long as they get the optimum treatment and aren't ruined. They still have yet to produce a wholly satisfactory edition of Peter Pan.
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