Comments on: 'Dark Knight' Blu-ray Details Emerge

By: bradbrevet

bradbrevet — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 23:13:07 +0000

ShaneM said: I'm not allowed to tell you the exact date, but you're too far into December.

Yeah, appears it is December 9

By: ShaneM

ShaneM — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 22:39:58 +0000

I have a "get together" with WHV next week where all will be confirmed, but I know that your release date is not correct as they asked me to pull my story on it about 30-minutes after I posted it.

I'm not allowed to tell you the exact date, but you're too far into December.

By: matthew715

matthew715 — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 03:21:54 +0000

I realize that most of The Dark Knight was shot in (or framed for) a normal 2.4 'scope format, but several scenes were filmed in IMAX, and if you saw it in IMAX, you saw the image expand vertically for the IMAX footage. I believe IMAX's native aspect ratio is about 1.4, but most of the extra height was not essential, since obviously most people did not see the IMAX version.

So will the DVD/Blu-ray remain 2.4 throughout, expand vertically to 1.78 (HD's native 16:9) for the IMAX scenes, or the least likely, pillar-box the image to Imax 1.4 for those scenes? And will the difference (grain, etc.)between IMAX footage and 35mm footage be visible on Blu-ray?

Nerd rant over, you may resume…whatever.

By: Greenleaf1

Greenleaf1 — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:44:05 +0000

Ugh…all I want is a comprehensive documentary on the film from pre production through post production. They had to know this movie was highly anticipated to own since before filming…I wish they would've kept a crew filming for the entirety of the shoot.

It'd be really nice to see a bunch of Heath Ledger on the disc rather than the inevitable 5 minute featurette "in memorium" but it looks like that probably won't happen.

Still hoping for an ultra special edition bluray with everything we've ever wanted…we'll see.

By: ranman14

ranman14 — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:36:13 +0000

YAY !!! cant wait till it comes out ! :)