Blu-Ray Report: Disney Classics go Blu!
Welcome to the Blu-Ray Report, where Fused Film’s, Justin Vactor, gives you the low-down on the big Blu-Ray news floating around the internet.
Disney is launching its Platinum Collection line on Blu-ray with Sleeping Beauty which will be released Oct. 7. The Hollywood Reporter is reporting Disney will release five more Platinum Collection animated classics on Blu-ray.
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937),
- Pinocchio (1940),
- Fantasia (1940),
- Beauty and the Beast (1991)
- Fantasia 2000 (1999).
Each will be available for a limited time in new multi-disc sets featuring hours of bonus materials and rare behind-the-scenes footage.
Disney is launching its next-generation BD-Live network, which offers such Web-enabled features as chat rooms and video messaging, in the U.S. only with Sleeping Beauty. The network will go live worldwide in fall 2009 with “Snow White.”
Being a huge fan of both Disney animated classics and Blu-ray, this is awesome news for me. I will be buying all of these titles.
