If you followed the history of this film on high-def formats, you most likely saw this one coming miles away. Timed to take advantage of the release of Zack Snyder‘s Watchmen on home video, 300: The Complete Experience will hit the shelves on July 21, packing all the features from the HD-DVD onto the Blu-ray edition of the film, along with some new BD-Live functionality and a book!
To be fair to Warner, this isn’t your average double-dip story. You see, way back in July of 2007, when 300 first came to home video, there wasn’t a Blu-ray player on the market that could handle the advanced BD-Live functionality (outside of the PS3, that is) required to take advantage of the additional features. The Complete 300 – A Comprehensive Immersion and the bluescreen picture-in-picture were available on the HD-DVD but held back from Blu-ray, giving our first cue that we would eventually see a more robust edition released on the format once all the hubbub over “profiles” settled down. And from the looks of this list of extras on the disc, it will have been well worth the wait:
300: THE COMPLETE EXPERIENCE
Digibook edition with 40-page book
Video: 1080p VC-1
Audio: 5.1 Dolby TrueHD
Special Features:
• The Complete 300 – A Comprehensive Immersion (new): interactive picture-in-picture experience which provides 3 unique perspectives to explore while you watch the film:
◦ Creating a Legend – Frank Miller and Zack Snyder Interpret a Classic Tale
◦ Bringing the Legend to Life – Building a World From a Comic
◦ The History Behind the Myth – The Real Story of The Hot Gates
• Bluescreen picture-in-picture (new)
• Audio commentary by director Zack Snyder, writer Kurt Johnstad and director of photography Larry Fong (already included in 1st edition)
• The 300- Fact or Fiction? (in HD; already included in 1st edition)
• Who Were The Spartans – The Warriors of 300 (in HD; already included in 1st edition)
• Preparing for Battle – The Original Test Footage (in HD; already included in 1st edition)
• Frank Miller Tapes (in HD; already included in 1st edition)
• Making of 300 – A look at how the movie was made (in SD; already included in 1st edition)
• Making 300 in Images (in SD; already included in 1st edition)
• Webisodes (in SD; already included in 1st edition)
• Additional Footage – Deleted Scenes with Introduction by Zack Snyder (in HD; already included in 1st edition)
• BD-Live (new): Media Centre; Live Community Screening; My WB Commentary
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Via: Blu-ray.com
[...] For a full list of bonus features, read our 300: The Complete Experience disc breakdown here. [...]
How do you just watch movie without all of the on-screen stuff?
Once you have done it it is irritating to have it always on screen