The Ultimate Fairy Tale is coming to Blu-ray Oct 7.

The Ultimate Fairy Tale is coming to Blu-ray Oct 7.

Today the Walt Disney Co. announced it’s future line-up of animation classics that will be released on the Blu-Ray platform. Now that the format war is over Hollywood is looking to bring the cautious public into the HD world. With price tags of $300-$700 for the players alone the recession-like American populous is being forced to spend their money on an increase in gas and food prices instead of luxury items like HD TV’s and Sony’s Playstation 3. The Disney Co., hoping to repeat the initial thrust that brought home video into the mainstream back in the 80s, has planned an unbeatable lineup of classic animated features to be released in the HD platform.

First up is my personal favorite, Sleeping Beauty (set for an Oct. 7 release). While Sleeping Beauty isn’t part of today’s announcement it is the next classic to come to Blu-Ray and absolutely worthy of mentioning. This classic is almost worth buying the player and an HD TV for all by itself. If you are a fan of the old traditional classics it just gets better from here. The five films that will be making their way out of the Disney Vault over the next two years are ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’, ‘Pinocchio’, ‘Fantasia’, ‘Fantasia 2000′, and ‘Beauty and the Beast’! 

 

I know this is the logo for the store in Downtown Disney but what are ya gonna do?

I know this is the logo for the store in Downtown Disney but what are ya gonna do?

The studio says that each disc ‘will include a BD Live component, allowing children to connect directly onto the internet to play the included interactive games with friends in other locations.’ While the BD Live component will be a new venture, president of BVHE, Bob Chapek, told the Times “BD Live is not a niche product… We see mass adoption of the technology.”  We’ll see how well this technology is adopted, as interactive components were one of HD DVD’s strong suits and not Blu Ray. As long as this new technology doesn’t take away from other bonus features that hard-core geeks like myself crave. It’s always hard enough buying cartoons at the store, but having to suffer through something like a Raven Symoné version of ‘Part of Your World’ while I try to find some vintage Ink and Paint Club material can be rough.


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