A senior exec at Twentieth Century Fox has called for a greater emphasis and focus on developing new interactive features for the Blu-ray Disc format.
“Moving forward, we must not lose our focus on developing features in the Blu-ray Disc format,” said Danny Kaye, Executive VP, Global Research & Technology Strategy at Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. “Fox has been aggressive in developing new Blu-ray Disc features. The more studios that are focused on this area, and the more consistency we can achieve in their application, then the better it will be for consumers and for the industry altogether.”
Fox has announced six new Blu-ray titles for the first quarter: Ice Age, Independence Day, I, Robot, Man on Fire, Wall Street, and Me, Myself and Irene.
Read on for initial disc contents and specifications.
Highlights among the titles include a Blu-ray Disc exclusive trivia track and BD-J-enabled video game called Alien Scavenger Hunt with the Independence Day release, which is slated for March 11. The game challenges players to correctly identify items in select scenes to unlock additional bonus features.
Ice Age, which is slated for a March 4 release, will be authored in MPEG2 compression and presented on a 25GB disc with English 5.1 DTS HD Lossless Master Audio and French and Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital Sound. Bonus features include: a commentary by director Chris Wedge and co-director Carlos Saldanha; deleted scenes with commentary by Wedge and Saldanha; a theatrical teaser and trailer.
I, Robot, which will street on March 11, will feature direct access to in-movie features through one of the four coloured buttons on the BD remote that allows viewers to quickly access the enormous amount of bonus materials on the disc including commentaries, production diaries, extended and deleted scenes, trivia and more.
Man On Fire, which is due Jan. 8, is authored in BD-J using MPEG2 compression and presented on a 50GB dual layer disc with English 5.1 DTS HD Lossless Master Audio and French and Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital Sound.
Wall Street, will street Feb. 5, authored in MPEG2 compression and presented on a 50GB dual layer disc with English 5.1 DTS HD Lossless Master Audio and English, French and Spanish subtitles. Bonus features include: a commentary and intro by Oliver Stone; a Greed Is Good featurette; deleted scenes with commentary by Stone; and Money Never Sleeps – the making of Wall Street.
Me, Myself and Irene, will also street on Feb. 5, authored in MPEG2 compression and presented on a 25GB disc with English 5.1 DTS HD Lossless Master Audio and French 5.1 Dolby Digital Sound. Bonus features include deleted scenes with optional commentary by Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly and theatrical trailers.
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