How the West Was Won - Blu-ray release 8/26 (1 Viewer)

[Jim_K]

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:


I'm looking forward to seeing this without those distracting join lines (guess that makes me a non-purist).

 

[David Wilkins]

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.

Please...pardon my sarcasm. It's a condition I was born with.

 

[Jim_K]

DVDtimes often gets the scoop on R1 releases. Importing discs seems to be a big thing in the UK.

 

[Doug Bull]

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.

 

[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.

 

[James_Garner]

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

 

[Roger_R]

How the West Was Won (US - DVD R1 | BD RA) in News > Releases at DVDActive - looks like the Blu-ray release will have less non-disc extras.

 

[MatthewA]

As someone who has seen the film twice in Cinerama, I have high expectations for this disc.

 

[Stephen_J_H]

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

 

[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 blu-ray.

 

[Robert Crawford]

 

[TonyD]

no doubt, but there is some nice stuff in that special edition.

 

[RickER]

I read the link, and i dont read "less' into it all all. But it will have all the disc extras for sure, PLUS the smile box, and that is Blu-ray exclusive. But it reads to me that its as full feature as the DVD release.

 

[TonyD]

i had to read that post a couple times to figure it out.
the missing features on the blu-ray are the "10 behind-the-scenes photo cards and 10 postcards, and an exclusive movie poster offer."

 

[WadeM]

I'm really excited to be able to see this in Smilebox. Warners has once again gone out of their way to do things right.

 

[David Wilkins]

Anybody else here skeptical about the Smilebox process? Perhaps someone has seen it in action. To me, it sounds gimmicky.

I've used the link that explains what it is and how it works, but still...

 

[RickER]

Nope. Maybe if that was the ONLY way to watch it. But why worry, you still have the letterbox version in the SAME set. This is just an extra, above and beyond what they had to do...very happy to see the extra mile for US!

Thanks Warner!

 

[Jim_K]

"gimmicky" as in say the PIP HUD display on Transformers or the Swat the Fly video game on The Fly disc or any and all web-enabled next gen features? um........no.

I value bonus content such as this smilebox version way more than all the bonus features listed above.

 

[David Wilkins]

Guys,

Perhaps what I said came across the wrong way. I'm happy to have it as an added feature. By gimmicky, I'm wondering how effective it really is. It's hard to imagine the projected 2-dimensional image providing even a faint glimmer of real thing. I'm wondering if anybody has more knowledge about the technique, or have actually seen a working demo.

I'll gladly take this added feature, whether or not it's very effective, over the majority of the junk that's included as extra features on most fully loaded discs or sets. Aside from well produced documentaries, I find most of the stuff a waste of time.

 

[Jim_K]

I've never seen a film in the smilebox ratio so I'm in the same boat as you. Don't know if I'll like it or not either but as Rick stated there's always the letterboxed version.

and if my post came off as sarcastic it wasn't directed at you or anyone but at those at the studio's who think this "my-space type" junk content is what we want.