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04-28-2008, 07:06 AM
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How the West Was Won - Blu-ray release 8/26
How the West Was Won announced for Blu-ray 8/26.
DVD Times - How The West Won (US BD) in August
Same bonus material as the SD - Film Historian Commentary
- Dave Strohmaier’s critically-acclaimed, feature-length documentary Cinerama® Adventure
- The Making of How the West Was Won (Archival featurette)
- Original Theatrical trailer
Plus some Blu-ray exclusives:
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the Blu-ray release offers an exclusive in the form of the “SmileBox” version of the film which presents the image with a unique curvature that virtually recreates the true Cinerama® experience in a home theater. This Blu-ray Edition comes with a special Digi-book packaging featuring 32-pages of rare press materials and behind-the-scenes photos.
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I'm looking forward to seeing this without those distracting join lines (guess that makes me a non-purist).
The Collection (Blu-Ray High Definition/DVD)
Pre-orders - BLU-RAY: Adventures of Robin Hood, Beowulf, Cool Hand Luke, Dark City, Dawn of the Dead, The Doors, Dr No, For Your Eyes Only, From Russia With Love, The Godfather Collection, How the West Was Won, The Hunt for Red October, Iron Man, Kill Bill 1 & 2, LA Confidential, Live and Let Die, The Mist, Nightmare Before Christmas, The Omen, Pale Rider, The Sixth Sense, Starship Troopers, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, The Thing, Thunderball, Transformers DVD: Icons of Horror: The Hammer Collection, Popeye the Sailor Vol #3, Road House, Rodan/War of the Gargantuas, Warner Gangster Collection Vol #4
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04-28-2008, 09:31 AM
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Re: How the West Was Won - Blu-ray release 8/26
Sounds great.
I wonder how word gets out, official or unofficial, about this kind of release in the U.K., without word first getting out over here. Maybe those guys can give us some details about the 'Dark City' release.
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04-28-2008, 09:36 AM
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Re: How the West Was Won - Blu-ray release 8/26
DVDtimes often gets the scoop on R1 releases. Importing discs seems to be a big thing in the UK.
The Collection (Blu-Ray High Definition/DVD)
Pre-orders - BLU-RAY: Adventures of Robin Hood, Beowulf, Cool Hand Luke, Dark City, Dawn of the Dead, The Doors, Dr No, For Your Eyes Only, From Russia With Love, The Godfather Collection, How the West Was Won, The Hunt for Red October, Iron Man, Kill Bill 1 & 2, LA Confidential, Live and Let Die, The Mist, Nightmare Before Christmas, The Omen, Pale Rider, The Sixth Sense, Starship Troopers, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, The Thing, Thunderball, Transformers DVD: Icons of Horror: The Hammer Collection, Popeye the Sailor Vol #3, Road House, Rodan/War of the Gargantuas, Warner Gangster Collection Vol #4
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04-28-2008, 11:14 PM
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Re: How the West Was Won - Blu-ray release 8/26
My very first stop every day is DVD Times. ( followed by the Bits)
They invariably, nearly always, get the new announcements scoop first.
It's clearly obvious that they have excellent contacts in the U.S.
This latest announcement is the most exciting in a long, long time.
HTWWW should look and sound fantastic.
I can't wait, come on August.
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04-29-2008, 06:16 AM
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Re: How the West Was Won - Blu-ray release 8/26
I'm impressed to see they plan to differentiate the Bd release with a substanative exclusive feature- i.e. the smilebox effect. I would think it would be a far more compelling distinction than just adding some different epk fluff or gimicky videostreaming of edited epk fluff. Looking foward to this quite a bit. I'll also be glad to see the join lines gone. I just wonder how extreme the curvature (and significant the negative black space) will be.
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04-29-2008, 08:56 AM
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Re: How the West Was Won - Blu-ray release 8/26
Now if only Warner would use the original directional audio mix, expecially since the original MGM videocassette release in the mid-to-late 80s used the original directional audio
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04-29-2008, 12:23 PM
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Re: How the West Was Won - Blu-ray release 8/26
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04-29-2008, 02:23 PM
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Re: How the West Was Won - Blu-ray release 8/26
As someone who has seen the film twice in Cinerama, I have high expectations for this disc.
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04-29-2008, 05:03 PM
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Re: How the West Was Won - Blu-ray release 8/26
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Originally Posted by Paul_Scott
I'm impressed to see they plan to differentiate the Bd release with a substanative exclusive feature- i.e. the smilebox effect. I would think it would be a far more compelling distinction than just adding some different epk fluff or gimicky videostreaming of edited epk fluff. Looking foward to this quite a bit. I'll also be glad to see the join lines gone. I just wonder how extreme the curvature (and significant the negative black space) will be.
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Take a gander at the Cinerama Adventure website at the link below. The negative black space would be insignificant on a 16:9 display.
The Cinerama Adventure - "Smilebox" Process
\"My opinion is that (a) anyone who actually works in a video store and does not understand letterboxing has given up on life, and (b) any customer who prefers to have the sides of a movie hacked off should not be licensed to operate a video player.\"-- Roger Ebert
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05-02-2008, 06:16 PM
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Re: How the West Was Won - Blu-ray release 8/26
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non-disc extras?
is that another way of saying the sd special edition will have more extras?
thats too bad.
i did notice the msrp was higher for the special edition over the blu-ray.
ok now i see what that is.
too ad all that stuff won't be on the blu-ray.
My "B" button rarely works.
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05-02-2008, 07:34 PM
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Re: How the West Was Won - Blu-ray release 8/26
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Originally Posted by TonyD
non-disc extras?
is that another way of saying the sd special edition will have more extras?
thats too bad.
i did notice the msrp was higher for the special edition over the blu-ray.
ok now i see what that is.
too ad all that stuff won't be on the r.
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Hey, I rather have what really counts.
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05-02-2008, 07:39 PM
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Re: How the West Was Won - Blu-ray release 8/26
no doubt, but there is some nice stuff in that special edition.
My "B" button rarely works.
"Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? Are they afraid someone will clean them?"
Movies watched 2008 Watching a Mits 73831 DLP Arnold is here
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