Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street DVD/BD News

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 10 Mar 2008, 12:44

On the 19 of March in the UK a Warner:

2 Disc DVD - Exclusive Burton Commentary!
1 Disc BD - Exclusive Burton Commentary!

EDIT: It should be the 19th of May!

Are coming:

http://www.dvdactive.com/news/releases/ ... ition.html

On the 1st of April in the USA a Paramount:

1 Disc DVD
2 Disc DVD
2 Disc HD-DVD - Now Cancelled!

Are coming:

http://www.dvdactive.com/news/releases/ ... -todd.html

p.s - Cover art is in each link.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 10 Mar 2008, 12:45

In regards to the Warner BD:

That commentary looks exclusive to Warner. It's not on the Paramount DVD or cancelled HD-DVD. Speaking of which that overall had lots more extas and was even a 2 Disc HD-DVD with HD extras!

I hope the Warner BD also has TrueHD (or PCM), if not I'll wait for the Paramount BD re-release. It better not just be DD5.1!

Commentary aside it looks pretty poor to what Paramount will be offering us.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 10 Mar 2008, 13:36

Hollow victory though. Past Burton solo commentaries have been duller than dish water.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 10 Mar 2008, 19:25

Really? I thought they were quite good. I cannot remember much about them though to be honest so will take your word for it.

If it has Lossless of some kind I'll pick it up if not I'll wait for the Paramount re-release. A commentary can go a long way to replacing lots of featurettes (even if they were to be in HD) but then if you say he's usually dull I'm not sure.

Still it's likely to have Lossless Audio (the soundtrack would have stacks to give to lossless), oh and even more crucially be Region Free so I doubt I'll wait.