Dark Crystal and Labyrinth Anniversary Edition DVD's

[Mistersuperstar]

Nice artwork. It would have been nice to have the artwork from the original movie posters on these Anniversay Editions tho.

 

[MuppetDanny]

It looks like UK fans will get these anniversary DVDs soon, fingers crossed as BBFC (The British Board of Film Classification) have passed the films a few days ago.

 

[Traveling Matt]

...This special 2-disc anniversary edition features a new high definition film transfer...

It doesn't specifically say "Blu-Ray" or "HD-DVD," so what does this mean exactly?

 

[Mistersuperstar]

It doesn't specifically say "Blu-Ray" or "HD-DVD," so what does this mean exactly?

I think it has just been newly transfered from the original 35mm (not sure that's right) film. They can clean up the image better nowadays. I hope it isn't being released as a HD DVD tho, or at least not ONLY.

 

[cabbageheat]

Hmm, I wonder if the image really will be any better then the Superbit DVD's released just a few years ago. Those looked great. Nevertheless, its great to hear they are re-releasing them with added material. I commentary track by Frank Oz, on the Dark Crystal would be gold though. Why he hasn't, or doesn't, is beyond me.

 

[GelflingWaldo]

Details

Here is the run-down of disc features for each of these releases: http://muppetnewsflash.blogspot.com/2007/06/dvd-details-for-henson-anniversary.html

 

[Traveling Matt]

I think it has just been newly transfered from the original 35mm (not sure that's right) film.

Perhaps, but "high definition" nowadays pretty much means Blu-Ray or HD-DVD.

 

[Mistersuperstar]

Perhaps, but "high definition" nowadays pretty much means Blu-Ray or HD-DVD.

I really hope that's not the case, but as Sony are releasing The Dark Crystal as a two-disc, maybe one disc will be Blu-Ray and the other just regular DVD.

 

[FrankV]

It looks like UK fans will get these anniversary DVDs soon, fingers crossed as BBFC (The British Board of Film Classification) have passed the films a few days ago.

According to the Sony Pictures UK website the anniversary DVDs will be released in on October 1, 2007.

 

[Laszlo]

I hope it will be HD ! Would make sense to me...