Paramount home Entertainment has announced it will bring one of the year's biggest blockbusters 'Transformers' exclusively to HD DVD this October.
Grossing over $300 million domestically, the special effects extravaganza from director Michael Bay and executive producer Steven Spielberg transformed into the most successful "original" film of the year (ie: not a sequel or remake), and is easily one of the most highly-anticipated next-gen releases of the holiday season.
Paramount/DreamWorks will debut the film on HD DVD October 16, day-and-date with the standard-def DVD version, and in a two-disc set filled with bonus features and cutting-edge content exclusive to the high-def release.
Extras identical to the HD DVD and DVD include audio commentary with Bay, two 4-part documentaries ("Our World" and "Their World"), the "From Script to Sand" featurette, concept art, and the theatrical trailer.
Exclusive to the HD DVD will be the "Transformers H.U.D. (Heads Up Display)" picture-in-picture mode, giving viewers running text-based behind-the-scenes background information on the production during the feature; the "Transformers Tech Inspector," offering an unprecedented look at the robots through the exquisitely detailed models created by ILM artists; and the web-enabled "Intelligence Mode" with running statistics and tracking of all the robots in the film.
Tech specs include 1080p video (codec still TBA) and Dolby Digital-Plus 5.1 Surround audio only -- surprisingly (and disappointing for early adopters) Paramount has not announced any high-resolution audio support for 'Transformers.'
Don't know about you guys i got mine pre ordered lol..
2 comments:
Blu-ray is the better format
HD-DVD is not doing so well just supported by some major figures at the moment.
Blu-ray is the future because its a recordable format and holds a lot more capacity than HD-DVD will ever do!! The recorders are not widely available at the moment and are very expensive!!
If HD-DVD format is just for movies it might be ok but standard DVD fills that gap and is considerably cheaper and data recordable!!
Look a UMD for PSP its virtually dead because its not recordable. Sony should of used standard Mini Disk!!
In my opinion Blu-ray and HD-DVD must dead!! as (Solid State) storage is on the rise and more economical e.g. Mini SD card, Sony stick, 32Gb SDHC
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/08/23/tosh_32gb_sdhc/
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