Sleeping Beauty Comes to Blu-ray

One of the newest Disney movies to come to Blu-ray is Sleeping Beauty. This classically animated Disney film is 50 years old this year and represents the company's very first Platinum Edition title to release on the Blu-ray Disc format.

Sleeping Beauty on Blu-ray will have "new characters and background scenes that are all new to the home video experience." It will also be the first Disney title to offer a connected BD-Live experience. Things one will be able to do, according to Disney, will include the ability to "chat on-screen in real-time with friends while simultaneously watching a movie frame-by-frame, record personalized video greetings for a loved one that appears on-screen over a pre-selected scene in a movie and play real-time interactive or strategy games against single and/or multiple groups of people."

Sleeping Beauty on Blu-ray is set to cost around $36.

Disney Classics Go Blu-ray

As Blu-ray is now the established next gen standard, it is coming time for more and more of the back catalogs of films to be released.  It's always a bit of an event when Disney releases their older films on disc, so it may be even more of an even now that some of these films are coming out on Blu-ray.

Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment will be releasing six animated classics, including Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio and Beauty and the Beast on Blu-ray over the next two years. These titles, also including Fantasia and Fantasia 2000, will all bow following the release of previously announced Sleeping Beauty on Blu-ray on Oct. 7. Street dates and pricing haven’t been specified for the forthcoming animated films.

It is expected that these films will feature BD Live interactivity along the same lines of their upcoming Sleeping Beauty release.

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