Tomorrow: Animation on Blu-ray

MORE GIFT IDEAS:

* GIFT & BOXED SETS
* ANIMATION
* CLASSICS
* THE BEST OF THE YEAR

I hope you’ve been working out because HBO’s 13-disc Deadwood: The Complete Series Blu-ray boxed set is a seriously weighty affair. This is one solid brick of high-def western goodness! The discs, which feature all 36-episodes from the series’ three seasons as well as gobs of special features, are housed within the pages of a gorgeous, solid hardcover book – much the same as last years’ Rome: The Complete Series set. The packaging is honestly a beautiful thing to behold, providing a slipcase for the book and all of the discs to rest in. Along with stunning video transfers, DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 tracks that border on perfection and all of the special features from the previously issued DVD sets (17 audio commentaries and over 6-hours of HD docs and featurettes), you’ll be hard pressed to find anything to dislike about this amazing Blu-ray boxed set. Unless, of course, you have an aversion to foul-mouthed (VERY foul) cowboys.

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AMAZON: $124.99

Following their hit WW II miniseries Band of Brothers, HBO brings us a kind-of sequel in The Pacific – a 10-part look at the allies’ struggles against axis powers in the far east. Producers Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg do their best to live up to Brothers‘ epic, emotional narrative and, for the most part succeed. The Pacific isn’t quite as engaging but proves to be equally cinematic and equally as memorable. The Blu-ray disc set consists of 5 discs in digibook packaging, housed in a tin case (almost exactly matching the Band of Brothers Blu-ray set, but a touch thinnner.) The series looks and sounds spectacular and features a great selection of quality of extras – “Enhanced Viewing Experience” picture-in-picture and “Field Guide” on all episodes as well as over an hour of docs and featurettes.

READ MORE: HBO The Pacific Blu-ray set announced and detailed

AMAZON: $66.99

Ah, Lost. It’s been over half a year since the groundbreaking series came to an end and I’m still not entirely sure how I feel about it as a whole. I mean, it had it’s high points (see my review of the Season 5 Blu-ray boxed set) and it’s dreadfully low points (remember Season 2?) But no matter how you feel about the series, there’s no denying it was infectious and quite memorable. Another point you can take to the bank is that it looks and sounds like a million bucks on Blu. In fact, I’d argue that it’s very nearly a different experience in high-bandwidth high-def. You can start over from the beginning with Lost: The Complete Series Blu-ray boxed set, pictured above – a comprehensive puzzle box filled with all 6 seasons worth of episodes along with scads of extras, collectibles and hidden secrets.

AMAZON: $179.99

The CG Clone Wars series has been my guilty pleasure now for a couple of years. I record and save new episodes as they air, hoarding them for those perfect Saturday morning marathons. The Blu-ray collections of the series do one better than just slapping the show on disc. These beautiful high-def presentations allow the Clone Wars to be seen as it was meant to be – in its original aspect ratio, instead of the cropped-for-TV versions we see on The Cartoon Network. The newest collection, Star Wars: The Clone Wars – The Complete Season Two features all 22 episodes, “Jedi Temple Archives“, featurettes and a 64-page book.

READ MORE: Star Wars The Clone Wars: The Complete Season Two Blu-ray Disc Review

AMAZON: $41.99

The Pillars of the Earth is the perfect gift for that person in your life who loves their sword fights and royal intrigue laced with a hefty dose of melodrama. This is a quality production from producers Ridley and Tony Scott that both looks and sounds great on Blu-ray. You won’t find a lot of special features here but no matter. The play’s the thing.

READ MORE: The Pillars of the Earth Blu-ray Disc Review

AMAZON: $44.99

I admit to not keeping up with Futurama since its miraculous return but am excited to catch up when this new Blu-ray boxed set turns up on December 21st. The 2-disc set includes all 13 new episodes and features such as deleted and extended scenes, audio commentaries and featurettes.

AMAZON: $30.99

Season 13 of The Simpsons marked the beginning of the shows return to form, after several seasons of less than spectacular episodes. Fans will definitely want to add this Blu-ray set to their collections for the exceptional DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack as well as the substantial batch of extras (commentary tracks on every episode!!) Take note that the episodes were produced in SD so the video presentation is a high-def encoded up-convert and a pretty nice one at that.

AMAZON: $40.99

Warner has packaged the three individual releases of the Peanuts holiday specials together into one handy boxed set. That means, if you or your loved one don’t already own the Christmas, Halloween and Thanksgiving Blu-ray discs, you’re in luck because you can now get them all together at a lower price. The discs and special features are identical to the individual releases, each one presenting an additional animated special and a short featurette. This is not reference material high-def but a definite improvement over whats previously been available.

AMAZON: $38.99

I think I can safely say, after watching two entire seasons of Fringe, that it’s hands-down the best genre show currently airing on TV. I actually held off watching season 2 for the entirety of the last year in anticipation of burning through it on Blu-ray. And burn I did!! The X-Files vibe takes even more of a back seat this season, in favour of furthering the story of agent Olivia Dunham, the Bishops and the secret experiments that tie them together. The episodes, once again look amazing on Blu. But, as they continued to do, WHV only serves up a compressed Dolby Digital 5.1 audio track. Ah well. Such a small disappointment in an otherwise amazing set. Special features include commentary on four episodes, a gag reel, a host of featurettes and more!

AMAZON: $45.99

My girlfriend got me into The Human Target last year. I wasn’t interested for the longest time but finally gave in and boy am I ever glad I did. What a fantastic, fun series this has been. This collection of first season episodes are so spirited and packed with adventure and fun and danger and… well, everything you’d want from a TV show adapted from a comic book.

Christoper Chance is a bodyguard and security expert for hire. Along with his crack team of operatives, he integrates himself into his client’s lives in order to draw out the forces that threaten them. The Blu-ray transfers are nice, if not a bit compressed (12 episodes onto 2 discs!) with Warner’s typical DD 5.1 audio mix souring the milk slightly. Special features include commentary on the pilot, deleted scenes and a couple of featurettes.

AMAZON: $35.49

From my review of the boxed set:

“With a cast of great characters and compelling b-movie storylines, True Blood is just as silly, soap operatic and supernatural in its second season as it was in its first. Perhaps even more so! And that fun transfers in whole to this exceptional Complete Second Season Blu-ray set!”

This is another killer (pun intended!) Blu-ray boxed set from HBO. As is par for the course, all episodes look and sound fantastic. Outside of the excellent commentary tracks the supplemental material is fairly anemic. See what I did there? With the blood-thing? Urgh…

READ MORE: True Blood: The Complete Second Season Blu-ray Disc Review

AMAZON: $47.49

And hey, speaking of vampires, here’s another great series about TV and film-goers’ favourite bloodsuckers! I didn’t expect to like The Vampire Diaries at all. AT ALL! And yet, after watching this first season on Blu-ray I’m hooked. It’s one of the shows I never miss on TV now, week to week. All 22 episodes are present and accounted for, all looking amazing in their high-def debut. Again WHV cheaps out on the audio, delivering only compressed DD 5.1 tracks. Not to worry though, they actually sound pretty good. Special features include a commentary track, tons of featurettes, a downloadable audio book and tons more!

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AMAZON: $45.99

Entourage has been another guilty pleasure for me for years. And this season, the sixth season feels like a climax of sorts. Despite the fact that the show has continued on into a seventh year, this Blu-ray boxed set collection gives a real sense of closure for the Hollywood escapades of movie star Vinnie Chase, manager Eric Murphy and all their pals by the time it ends. All 12 episodes look and sound better than they deserve, thanks to the wizards at HBO. Special features include commentaries, featurettes and a short film directed by Matt Damon!

AMAZON: $26.99

Thomas Jane stars in Hung as coach and “happiness consultant” (read: male hooker) Ray Drecker, doing what he does best with the gifts the good Lord has given him. Like, um…coaching sports and stuff. This half-hour drama is honestly a lot of fun but feels brief at a paltry 10-episodes. Collected in boxed set form, they just zoom by! The technical presentation isn’t quite up to HBO’s usual high standards but that doesn’t mean things look or sound grim here. The Blu-ray boxed set is, sadly a bit lite on the special features with a handful of commentary tracks being the most noteworthy.

AMAZON: $27.99

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* ANIMATION
* CLASSICS
* THE BEST OF THE YEAR

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STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS THE COMPLETE SEASON TWO (2009-2010, Blu-ray released October 26, 2010 – MSRP $59.99)

The Star Wars animated series, The Clone Wars makes me hate myself a little bit. My head tells me over and over again that Emperor Lucas‘ prequel films were all kinds of garbage and that these cartoons only frolic in his poisoned playground. Well, that playground must be filled with crack-rocks or something because I continue to be addicted to this show!

Is it just me, or did the Clone Wars get even better in Season Two? Sure, there aren’t as many kick-ass lightsaber battles this time around but it’s a small gripe to make about a series that now seems to have hit its stride. As director Dave Filoni guides his animated baby ever closer to creative and temporal parity with the live-action Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, new and more lethal villains are introduced, the plot thickens, tensions increase and Anakin embraces his dickishness. That’s right, the future Darth Vader is clearly closer to embracing the Dark side in Season Two, taking lives in cold blood while appearing to mature into a steady mentor to his Padawan learner, Ashoka. This is pretty great stuff – super-fun for a Saturday morning and necessary viewing for any Star Wars fan.

Star Wars The Clone Wars: The Complete Season Two is “most impressive” on Blu-ray but pales in comparison to the nearly rock-solid image of the Season One Blu-ray set. Fans who watched the episodes as they aired on television will be blown away by the image on the discs – highly detailed and in their correct, much wider aspect ratios. But videophiles might be disappointed by the occasional appearance of colour banding and artifacting/macro-blocking. As is par for the course with Warner Blu-ray discs featuring TV content, the audio is only available in a compressed Dolby Digital 5.1 surround track. It’s a nice one but can’t compete with what could, no doubt have been delivered via an uncompressed, lossless track.

Extras on the disc set are, once again, very informative and entertaining but, sadly, fewer than on the Season One set. Gone, this time around, are the longer “Director’s Cut Episodes” and episode specific featurettes. The short docs present amount to over an hour of behind the scenes footage, art and interviews. Thankfully, the excellent Blu-ray exclusive “Jedi Temple Archives” have returned, featuring over two hours worth of deleted and extended scenes, designs, art and animation. Also back for Season Two is the wonderful packaging of the 3-disc set which includes a 68-Page Production Journal, this time around slotted into an attached sleeve instead of bound into the hardcover digibook.

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Despite my general dislike for the Star Wars prequels, I really enjoyed the Clone Wars: The Complete Season One Blu-ray set. And now, less than a year later we’ve got all the details for the follow up – the Complete Season Two on Blu-ray. Now, if you look closely, you’ll notice that the specs state that the discs will have lossless audio but don’t hold your breath for that dream to come true. The first set was announced to have similar specs but shipped with a lossy 5.1 Dolby Digital track instead. We’ll know for sure when the October 26th release date rolls around…

Special Features:

• Behind-The-Scenes Featurettes on each disc
  • Attack of the Zillo Beast
  • Magic of the Holocron
  • Return to Geonosis
  • Creating Mandalore
• 64-page production journal that includes early sketches, artist notes and concept art from Season Two of Star Wars: The Clone Wars
• Blu-ray Exclusive — The Jedi Temple Archives
  • An extensive database exploring special effects footage, early concept art, 3-D character and object turnarounds and early animation. The Archives is a rare look at the assets in various stages of creation for The Clone Wars, with a wealth of surprises and never-before seen moments sprinkled throughout

Via: Star Wars.com

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Let me start at the beginning. I grew up with Star Wars. I’ve always been a fan. And despite my dislike for the prequel films and the general apathy for the franchise they almost forced upon me, I perpetually maintain the tiniest slice of interest in anything cinematic that George Lucas might serve up connected to the Jedi and the Skywalker clan. So, of course I checked out the animated series. And of course I was disappointed. While my expectations were low, I was hoping that the producers of this new, ongoing CGI animated series would keep alive the spirit and sense of storytelling established in Gendy Tartakovsky‘s 2D, cell animated Clone Wars shorts from 2003. Sadly, the CGI series decided to follow its own path. And it travels a rocky road for quite a while, beginning with the clunky, ham-fisted Clone Wars theatrical release (ostensibly the pilot for the series and not included in this boxed set.) The animation comes out of the gate stiff, the characters as wooden as their Thunderbirds marionette-inspired designs and the stories uneven at best. But as the season wears on, everything improves. I even found myself warming to the character designs!

By the time the episodes in the box-set wrap up, the production team finds its footing and makes you cry for more! The stories become more coherent and effective and the characters more well-rounded. More, dare I say it…human. And the quality of the animation raises more than a notch or two above where it began. In fact, this is, without question, the best CGI that series TV has ever seen! And the presentation included on the Blu-ray just seems to amplify every positive quality of the show. I have to admit, I enjoy these episodes a lot more, watching them on these discs, shown in brilliant 1080p in their correct aspect ratios, than watching the versions shown on broadcast TV. Everything seems better, brighter, more well thought out. It might help that 7 of the 22 episodes are shown in their longer Director’s Cut versions (original cuts aren’t included.)

The whole Clone Wars package is a delight! The 3 Blu-ray discs in the set come served up in a beautiful hardcover digibook. This thing is amazing! It apparently replicates the series director’s production book, filling all 64-pages to the brim with sketches, character turnarounds, tests and lush background paintings. Every time I flip through the book, I have a hard time believing I’m looking at the standard packaging for the set. A few years ago this would have been marketed as a separate “Special Collector’s Book-Edition” sold for a premium price. We’re very fortunate to have such a wonderful package set as standard for the collection.

The discs within are beyond reproach, as far as video quality is concerned. Brilliant! All 22 episodes look better than ever before. Sadly, the audio doesn’t quite match up. While the Dolby Digital 5.1 sounds amazing all around, I can’t help but feel a little disappointed that Warner Home Video wasn’t able to include lossless audio in the set. Perhaps there wasn’t any room left after cramming all the episodes and bonus content on the discs?

And speaking of the special features, they are plentiful. In fact, every single episode is given its own short featurette! These run around 5 minutes or so per episode and are actually quite informative, given their brief runtime. I highly recommend checking each one out directly after you’ve finished watching the episode. Great stuff. In addition, the discs feature the Blu-ray exclusive “Jedi Temple Archives” which amount to several hours worth of 2D and 3D art, videos, sketches, storyboards and much, much more. You’ll lose hours to these two features alone! There is also a sneak peek at Clone Wars: Season Two and a trailer for the new “Republic Heroes” videogame.

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It’s almost 2AM. I should be asleep already (got an early day tomorrow) but I’m so excited about this trailer for the Clone Wars Complete Season One Blu-ray that I thought I’d better shove some toothpicks under the old eyelids and get this posted for you.

This package looks fantastic! Everything we’d heard in the early rumours has come true in this release, including the digibook packaging! Look at the examples given in the trailer of the design work featured in the pages of the book! This thing looks fantastic! Exclamation mark!

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STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS THE COMPLETE SEASON ONE

(November 3, 2009
 – MSRP: DVD $44.98, Blu-ray $59.99
)
Total Episode Run Time: 484 Minutes 
Featurette Run Time: 146 Minutes

MPAA Rating: TV-PG

Closed Captioned: Yes

Special Features:

• Seven Director’s Cut Episodes:

◦ Rising Malevolence, Shadow of Malevolence, Lair of Grievous, Rookies, Storm Over Ryloth, Innocents of Ryloth and Liberty on Ryloth

• 22 Episodic Featurettes that go behind-the-scenes with Supervising Director Dave Filoni and crew about the making-of each episode
• Spectacular 64 page production journal that includes early sketches, artist notes, and concept art from each episode from Season One
• Blu-ray Exclusive – The Jedi Temple Archives

◦ An extensive database exploring test footage, early concept art, 3-D character and object turnarounds and early animation. The Archives is a rare look at the assets in various stages of creation for The Clone Wars, with a wealth of surprises and never-before seen moments sprinkled throughout.

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (July 15, 2009)

After wowing TV audiences with a cutting-edge, animated look at “a galaxy far, far away,” Star Wars: The Clone Wars™ The Complete Season One is coming to DVD and high-definition Blu-ray Disc November 3 from Lucasfilm Ltd. and Warner Home Video.

Live the adventures again and again, and dig deeper into the first season of The Clone Wars with a comprehensive look behind-the-scenes of the popular animated series. Uniquely packaged with an exclusive 64 page production journal, the four-disc set contains all 22 episodes from the groundbreaking first season – including seven extended Director’s Cuts – as well as companion featurettes for each episode. And exclusive to the Blu-ray disc, The Jedi Temple Archives provides in-depth access to an extensive database of creative materials.

“I’m a longtime Star Wars fan, and the same’s true for a lot of the guys working on the show,” said supervising director Dave Filoni. “And as a fan, I know that Lucasfilm can be pretty secretive. They’re famous for it. But we’re all so proud of the work that’s gone into The Clone Wars, and we wanted to share some of our production tricks, and open up the vault and reveal our efforts. You’re going to get unprecedented access, to see the nuts and bolts of our series – from concept to finished animation.”

Created and executive produced by George Lucas, the first-ever TV production from Lucasfilm Animation explores the tumultuous time between Episodes II and III of the live-action saga, expanding the scope of Star Wars beyond anything seen in the feature films. With the fate of the galaxy hanging in the balance, the heroes of the Republic – including the valiant Jedi Knights and their loyal clone troopers – fight bravely to repel the attacks of the evil Separatists and their droid army.

“The live-action saga was just the beginning. The universe is vast, and there are so many more stories to explore beyond Anakin’s fall and redemption,” said Lucas. “The scope of the war gives us the perfect vehicle for a weekly series, allowing us to look at how the conflict has affected the farthest reaches of the galaxy, including characters, creatures and races we only glimpsed in the feature films. Animation has allowed us to visualize the worlds and characters of Star Wars in all new ways.”

Star Wars: The Clone Wars The Complete Season One will be available November 3 for the suggested retail price of $44.98 for DVD and $59.99 for Blu-ray.

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Man. This is really a no-brainer. Everybody wants this. I just thought that with all the hubbub over the Clone Wars box set this week, I should say a little something about the Star Wars films and when we might see them on Blu-ray.

The answer? No time soon. If George Lucas had any intention of hustling his perennial money-makers onto Blu-ray, he would’ve done it for the 2007 thirtieth anniversary of the original film’s release. But he didn’t. And we’re all still waiting.

There’s been a rumour swirling around the interwebs for a while now that Lucas’s intention was to release his new 3D versions of the Star Wars films onto Blu. It seems the process of interpreting 2D shots into 3D has proven a more expensive and time consuming process than expected and as a result the films are, at this point, not even on the theatrical release horizon, never mind home video. Lucas’s insistence on waiting for new technology to arrive before releasing his films into the wild yet again reminds me of a quote or two from the man back in the late 90s, when he stated that he wouldn’t release Star Wars onto then-new format DVD because he was waiting for a blu-laser based, high-definition format. And then he caved. And the Star Wars films hit DVD. It took a few years, but Lucas gave into the market demands. As I suspect he will again with Blu-ray.

There’s a lot of fan pressure at the moment. I’m certain Fox is also putting a lot of pressure on Lucasfilm. And I’m equally as certain that we’ll win out in the end, and get the Star Wars Saga on Blu-ray. It’s just not going to be this year. And it probably won’t be the next.

Are you satisfied enough with your DVDs or by watching low-bandwidth HD-TV broadcasts to wait a few more years for the Star Wars Saga to hit Blu-ray? Are you going to show Lucasfilm how much you want the films by purchasing The Clone Wars: The Complete First Season boxed set on Blu? Or have you completely given up on the franchise now, sick of all the re-issues and lack of commitment to the fan base? Has Star Wars worn you down?

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Promo Image for the Clone Wars: The Complete First Season Boxed set. Final package art will differ.

I’m still trying to figure out if I’m a fan of Cartoon Network‘s The Clone Wars series or if I’m just watching it out of a sick, thirty-year old Star Wars habit. I mean, I can actually say that I’ve genuinely enjoyed a handful of the episodes. That some parts of this series are the best Star Wars has been in years (the space battles, the lightsaber fights, the Yoda giggle!!!). But at the same time, it’s clunky and inconsistent. The animation is stiff. Some of the designs just don’t sit right with me. And the storytelling is often hampered by inane Lucas-style jokes or just plain-old lazy writing.

At the same time, I have to admit that I haven’t missed an episode. I’ve even shown it to friends. Sometimes, giving a recommendation to watch! I think I’m even responsible for getting a couple of people hooked on The Clone Wars!

We’ve known for some time now that Lucasfilm was planning a boxed-set of the first season episodes for release on Blu-ray (they’ve been releasing random collections of episodes on DVD since last year), most likely hitting store shelves sometime this fall. And now, thanks to a scooper on the forums of Blu-ray.com we’ve got our first look at what we can expect from the set. Though it’s exciting to get this sneak peek, keep in mind that it’s all rumour at this point, until an official announcement is made.

The scooper notes that the Star Wars: The Clone Wars Complete First Season boxed set will include:

• Original aspect ratios – 2.35:1 (Cartoon Network aired episodes cropped at 1.78:1 for 16:9 displays)
• Digibook Packaging – with book (around 40 pages or so) featuring concept drawings and sketches
• Director’s Cut Episodes
• Commentaries
• 2D and 3D initial renderings (characters?)

The Star Wars: The Clone Wars Complete First Season boxed set will NOT include the film, The Clone Wars that debuted in theatres last year.

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“Meanwhile, for fans eager to own the entire first season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Lucasfilm is in the midst of producing a multi-disc boxed set that is expected to debut later in 2009. Full details of the first-season DVD boxed set, which is also planned to mark the first Blu-Ray appearance of the series, will be announced later this year. The collection will include substantial bonus material that is currently in production at Lucasfilm, including explorations of the behind-the-scenes creation of the hit series.”

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