I haven’t read this anywhere else here, but in the past couple of weeks several outstanding articles have appeared about the quality of the Wall•E dvd, in particular the blu-ray:
When I bought a new dvd player last week, they were playing Nemo on the machine I bought. Now when you see a Blu-ray, they might be playing Wall•E. It appears to be the industry standard right now.
Yeah, ditto- Cars seems to be one of the favourites, and Finding Nemo too.
DarkHandOfSigourneyWeaver- I have to say, I agree with those articles. Watching WALL-E on Blu-Ray was spectacular, but as it was only the second Blu-Ray film I’ve seen, I didn’t really have much to compare it by. Good to know that WALL-E is, as you put it, the industry standard.
Interesting, an hour ago I was in such a store at the other end of this building complex. They were playing Kung Fu Panda on all tv’s, which is probably more colorful than Wall•E, and it didn’t matter much since it was rentals and most of their 15 different demo screens had either been rented or been running nonstop as a demo for over a year.
My first impression of the DVD 3-disc packaging was: how slick! WALL•E’s eyes are so entrancing. The whole recycling theme of the packaging ties in well with the movie, and I guess it would kind of be hypocritical of Disney to release a non-biodegradable packaging for this movie with its whole ‘protect the environment’ message. Are the DVDs themselves bio-degradable, though? Probably not, or at least not for a while.
But… my movie disc is a little bit scratched. It skips a bit at the beginning, and even though it’s a bit irritating, it could have been worse. I mean, points for Disney-Pixar for trying something different, but it wrecks the discs. But nevermind, I’ll just have to rip the movie to my computer and make another (non-skipping) copy.
I really like the menus, because each one is different from the last and they never repeat themselves. They fit in well with the BnL theme of bright colours and clean lines. Anyone know what music was used for the main menu in disc 1? I really like that music and don’t recall it being from the movie.
I was going to write more but my DVDs hardly work in my computer, so I’ve had to write from memory. Durn it.
Because I’m not a US/Canadian citizen, I can’t use that Disney Rewards coupon: anyone want it? PM me.
The Pixar Story is all I needed to make the DVD worth the extra price, since I missed both screenings that came in my hometown! What an excellent film. The film closely follows To Infinity and Beyond: The Story of Pixar Animation Studios, and ends on a positive note with Cars and the future of Pixar. I guess it is a lot of fluff, but there’s also a lot of historic Pixar footage that I’ve never seen before, and it’s really well edited. I like the beginning stories much better, toward the end they begin to get corporate; I think I enjoy learning about the creative and technical processes of Pixar better.
The special features are just what I’d expect in a Pixar DVD. I’d say the features are on par with the Monsters, Inc, DVD, one of the best. It’s actually been a while since I’ve seen it, so I don’t recall the each features that much. I wish though there was more on the development of the story, which I feel is lacking. I guess we can see that with the commentary and the deleted scenes, which are split up between the first and second disks.
I’ve only listened to half of the commentary, yet from what I’ve heard, Andrew Stanton will remain as a pure genius.
I also love the digital download; I’ve seen WALL-E a few times on my laptop without the DVD, but why must they advertise it as “the third disk”? Once you download it, the disk is irrelevant, since they only let you download it once to only one computer, couldn’t they have saved plastic by giving you a download code for iTunes instead?
Oh yeah, even though this isn’t directly WALL-E related, I finally got my mail-in tree from the Target WALL-E DVD. It looks like a just branch of a Douglas Fir, but it’s a tree that you can plant, so I’m going to plant it soon!
Just finished watching WALL-E with the Andrew Stanton commentary. He’s such a likeable guy! My favourite part had to be when [spoil]he was trying to fill up time, as he had about half a minute where he had nothing to say. His time wasting skills are poor.[/spoil]
One of things I liked about the 2nd disc in my 3 disc set was the B&L shorts, which shed some light on a few things, such as [spoil]every robot on board having a “Central Axiom Command Intelligence Key” in the Captain’s briefing[/spoil], which would explain why [spoil]when that panel on AUTO was flipped open, Captain McCrea seemed to instantly recognize said key[/spoil].
As far as I’m aware, you can only get the second disc if you’ve bought the 2-disc set, unfortunately. Though it would be pretty handy to be able to buy them seperately.
I have the 3-disc version. The packaging idea was creative, but yeah, I think I broke it while trying to figure out how to get to the first disc. =(
Anyway, the quality of the movie is terrific (as far as I can tell, that is!). I’m not a huge fan of the menus, but I get the concept. To me, the DVD menus for Ratatouille were more breathtaking. This release is far superior to the last two (single-discs and no commentaries? Lame!), though. I love playing a Pixar DVD and getting lost in their little world for hours. Oh, and I loved The Pixar Story. I mean, the documentary itself was somewhat average, but the story being told is far too interesting for me to care.
I just got home from the store. I have the 3-disc version of the WALL-E DVD! I’m going to get the DisneyFile… uh… file and put it on my new iPod Classic. I’m watching The Pixar Story right now, but I’m also playing on the computer so I’ll have to watch it again.
I think the packaging for the DVD is interesting, but I think it’s hard to get a disc out and put it back in and then close the entire thing easily.
I paid $35 for this, and they forgot to put the activation code insert in it. It couldn’t be easy like having the actual video file on the disc. No, you had to make sure pirates didn’t get it. NEXT TIME DISNEY, YOU SHOULD MAKE SURE YOU DON’T PUNISH THOSE WHO ACTUALLY PURCHASE YOUR FILMS BY MAKING SURE THEY GET WHAT THEY PAID FOR!!
Sorry, I’m just really frustrated. Their phone line is closed (won’t be open until Monday) so I sent an email to them. I hope I get a reply this soon, this is outrageous.
Yeah, I heard a lot of other people were missing their activation codes in their DVDs, too. If you have trouble finding a replacement code, or Disney won’t give you one, you could always just rip the DVD to your hard drive. It will mean you’d get better quality, too.
Yeah, but I bought the 3-disc version for the specific purpose of watching the film on my iPod. The least Disney could do was give me a small piece of paper with a few random numbers and letters on it.
My computer (or one of them) has a DVD drive which means I can copy it, but I’ll have to find a good program to do it. I know one called Handbrake, but it won’t run on my PC. It was really good too (and free!). I could pop the DVD in and press iPod. It would resize it and convert it and everything (I know this because I used to have an iBook loaned to me and it could run Handbrake. I ripped some Paul McCartney videos to put on YouTube. Only one or two though.)
I’m so excited that I got the WALL-E 3 disc dvd for christmakkuh, but the only problem is that to get the digital copy and put it on my iPod Nano 4thg, I need an iTunes account, and you need a credit card to have an iTunes account, which I do not own because of my young under 18 age…
Though I might just ask my mom if I can use hers, though she might say no, which stinks… a lot…
You can create an iTunes account without a credit card, if you follow these instructions.
Apple added this to allow downloads of free apps from the iPhone app store for people without a credit card.
I have not tested if this actually works with a digital copy, but it is worth giving it a try.
It skips a bit at the beginning, and even though it’s a bit irritating, it could have been worse. I mean, points for Disney-Pixar for trying something different, but it wrecks the discs. But nevermind, I’ll just have to rip the movie to my computer and make another (non-skipping) copy.
I’m going to get the DisneyFile… uh… file and put it on my new iPod Classic. I’m watching The Pixar Story right now, but I’m also playing on the computer so I’ll have to watch it again.
