Star Wars: The Force Awakens Blu-Ray Set May Feature 3 Discs.
While there’s still no word on when the Blu-Ray for Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens will arrive, a recent update to the official Blu-Ray website suggests that the movie will be released in a three-disk pack (one DVD, two Blu-Rays, and two separate digital copies of the film).
It’s extremely likely that this additional Blu-Ray disk is meant to contain additional special features – presumably, the deleted scenes and several “making-of” documentaries. As of now, the profile for the release does not mention anything about what these features may be. For some technical details, check the below screencap (or access the page linked to above):
Thanks to Jedi-News for relaying this information. We’ll be sure to cover more news on the forthcoming Blu-Ray release as it breaks.
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Is an April release still likely? Seems strange that they have yet to make an official announcement.
Yeah, they must be working out something at the last minute. They have been pretty forward on dates if they had them. I’m sure we’ll hear something soon.
I hope we get a documentary like we did on The Phantom Menace DVD.
That was the Da’ Real Best Prequel Film
Never – neither LFL nor Disney will be that honest again.
It’s like poetry. It rhymes.
But we be living in different TIMES.
Hope they add Snowtroopers and Snowspeeders! Enough old fart cast! Bring more action onto the Blu-ray!
Bet we get a striped down version for the UK with no digital
3D?
Isn’t a thing that actually took hold in any meaningful way for the home market.
Wouldn’t say that. I have plenty of recent movies in 3D. Including every single Marvel movie from the last 8 months or so. If they can make a dime off the already existing 3D version, they will.
Anyone want to take the bet that it’s a 3D package once the ST is done – including the PT, the OT (both confirmed by ILM to be either done, or almost done, particularly as they cancelled the screenings only a couple of months before AotC was supposed to bow in 3D), and ST? $300 with a statue or something? Just don’t think we’ll see it this time around – they’ll wait until they’ve sold everyone the standard versions first for a few years.
I won’t argue with that first part but the house of mouse does tend to save their best features for those sets.
I don’t own a Blu-ray player. How do these digital copies work? Is it an iTunes code? (If so, I wonder if your location has to match the disc region.)
universal gives it as a itunes code ( I dunno about region crap), Warner bros has a separate app to play it, I dunno about disney, it might be related to itunes, as Disney is owned by apple
I preordered mine. It had better not be just iTunes for that Apple garbage. Don’t want Apple, can’t stand Apple.There had better be a normal video I can view on any device.
Sadly you know it won’t be.
If it works like the regular Disney movies you make an account with Disney (if you do not already have one) and set up your movies to link with other accounts, such as Microsoft, Google Play, iTunes, Amazon video and vudu. Or play them on the Disney Movie App–maybe at their website too, but I have not tried it that way.
Ah, that makes more sense. Thanks!
No they don’t! Disney doesn’t own Apple at all. If that were true, the we wouldn’t be seeing content from other studios on there.
Apple does not own Disney, lol. Disney movies usually come with a code that can be redeemed as either iTunes or ultraviolet
Apple doesn’t own Disney but they have close ties. Steve Jobs created Pixar and later sold that to Disney. Apple and Disney worked up a lot of deals and collaborations through Jobs that still continue.
okay, okay. I don’t understand why do 5 of you have to yell at me the exact same thing
Jobs didn’t create Pixar. What eventually became Pixar was created in the ’70s, later became a division of Lucasfilm, and was sold to Jobs shortly after he was ousted from Apple.
I want a special pack
I never understood why they throw in a DVD copy with the Blu-Ray. Why would I want an inferior copy of the movie?
I always assumed it was because people might not have a Blu-ray player outside of the living room.
Because adding a three-cent piece of plastic is cheaper than producing a whole separate run of a DVD version.
I understand that, but wouldn’t they want to make a sale of the dvd instead of basically throwing it in for free? If the Blu Ray is $20 then aren’t they losing out on selling the DVD for $15? If you’re forcing someone to get something they won’t use isn’t it a net loss?
It’s partly for people who have DVD players in their cars. That’s why I like DVDs with my blu ray purchases.
I suspect it’s cheaper than having another SKU – you want the DVD? You’re buying the same SKU everyone else is. I can’t imagine there’s a whole lot of people who would be buying both.
Another point that I don’t think anyone has brought up is that people who have yet to move on from DVD essentially get a free BD disc. It may seem like a dumb move, but people may be more likely to finally upgrade when they already have a small collection starting. They can take that blu-ray player home and have options right off the bat. And then they’re going to go out and buy more BDs from your studio.
Because many people simply don’t have BR players. Period.
In fact, other than myself, I only know 2 other people (here in my town) that have ever bothered to upgrade from DVD. Oftentimes, I have to travel with my BR player to someone’s house, if a movie night is to happen with a higher quality cut of a film. Most folks just can’t tell the difference, as much as we’d like to believe otherwise.
Or they can tell the difference, but don’t think it’s worth the bother. Or they don’t have a TV big enough for it to make a difference. When my previous DVD player died, I considered Blu-Ray, but decided an upscaling DVD player would be fine for my existing discs on my 720p TV. I mostly stream now anyway.
And while I know it’s not a helluva a lot of people who do this, I have two monitors and tend to watch a movie on the second while I do whatever on the first. Game, homework, reply to Crankypants and Snark and tell them how wrong they are.
I have a Blu Ray drive in my computer, but haven’t forked out the extra money for the software to play a Blu Ray on it..because for PC, you have to do that ’cause Sony sucks.
Star Wars deserves the same special treatment as the Lord of the Rings/Hobbit extended editions received. But I doubt that’ll happen.
Yeah there’s still some scenes from the OT I would love to see restored and inserted. I don’t know if Disney has the rights, but an ultimate edition with the prequels re-edited would be a great move.
I think he’s more so referencing the sheer amount of bonus features on those sets. Be it what you think of The Hobbit movies but the 2 discs worth of bonus features of the EE’s are so thorough you almost start to feel like you were part of the cast and crew.
As long as the bonus features are to at least amount and quality of the prequel DVD’s, I’ll be satisfied. but I’d love to be blown away with far more. These movies could always need more behind the scenes material.
That’s true, but can you imagine the prequels re-edited to try and make the scenes flow better and the OT tweaked once more to bring back some of the things Lucas shouldn’t of touched.
Why include a DVD in a Blu Ray Release? The whole point of buying it on Blu Ray is to experience a higher quality than DVD. Are they also going to strap in a VHS tape in the package, too?
I always love it when a DVD is included. I only watch blu-ray at my place, but most of my friends don’t have blu-ray players so we can’t watch my movies at their house. Throwing a DVD in is just a little extra insistence that you can watch the movie anywhere. Plus if you don’t want the DVD then you can give a free copy of the movie to one of your pals who dosnt care about Blu-rays.
Exactly.
also blu-rays discs take FOREVER to load and get to the menu… the dvd loads and is ready to watch in under a minute.
Because there are still a LOT of people who don’t have BR players.
So put out DVDs separately then. Why make people buy something they either don’t want or can’t use?
Probably because including everything in one single package makes better business sense, being that it’s cheaper to produce one package, as opposed to several.
The age of physical media is dying…you won’t see many studios going out of their way to produce the content and packaging that we saw 10 years ago. We have to learn to accept that.
If they can slap together bargain-bin DVDs and sell them for $5 in Walmart, they can put out a Star Wars DVD-only pack.
This is pretty common for all Disney releases. DVD copy for the kids/minivan.
I always try to get the DVD set rather than just Blu-Ray. I can only watch Blu on my TV at home, but I can watch the DVD on my computer, on the portable player, and at anyone else’s house.
As another person said, it is just a little bonus that makes it easier to watch. This has been handy for my family since we have the Blu-Rays for the Deathly Hallows films and they came with the DVDs. As I’m the only one with a Blu-Ray player (we have an old TV in our living room without an HDMI slot…and I bought my TV and my Blu-Ray player, so…) which lets us watch it in both rooms. It really came in handy when I had to sleep in the living room when I injured my back a few years back.
Also, DVDs are really cheap to make, so it doesn’t cost that much to include.
cos if you break the Blu-ray due to watching TOO MUCH, you have the DVD to fall back on! 🙂
It will probably be a 3D Blu ray, a normal one and a DVD. There’s a ton of releases like that.
I think it will be one Blu-Ray for the film, one Blu-ray for the special features and the film on DVD. Most 3D releases (in Australia at least) have their own separate Blu-Ray. I don’t know anyone that owns a 3D TV and a 3D Blu-Ray player.
Could be. A lot of 3D releases here in Europe contain the 2D as well, but maybe it’s more popular here? Anyway, a disc with special features would be awesome! The prequel DVDs delivered spectacularly in special features, I hope they continue that tradition.
I’m sure they will. A Star Wars DVD without a special features disc is like a Moose without a hat rack.
cool. maybe its a blu ray 3D disc
Blu-Ray. These are our first disks.
I see what you did there…
The Blu-ray disk, it’s calling to you.
Just let it in.
They used to often put the extras on the DVD as they didn’t need the space of a BliuRay, Although that was in the day where behind the scenes footage was non HD. These days everything should be HD, so no idea about the DVD. There will be a seperate DVD release for the movie, so it doesn’t make sense to have another version of the movie on DVD in the BluRay release.
This will make it so that The Force Awakens will be the first Star Wars film I own on DVD! (I own the original trilogy and Episode I and II on VHS, and all six on Blu-Ray).
I would love to see a documentary like the one they had on TPM DVD. Although the movie was a letdown, the hour long documentary is fascinating as they really give an insight of everyone on the project. It starts with Lucas classic quote, “Jar Jar is the key!”. And then shows the reaction of Lucas, McCallum and many others after their first private screening of Episode 1, and their reaction is like they just left a funeral.
That’s not a listing on any sort of official Blu-ray (note spelling) website. Bluray.com is a news/review site.
You guys just copied and pasted this article… We know when the blu ray comes out Amazon and you guys reported April 5th
Actually quite disappointed about the 2.39:1 aspect ratio. Letter-boxing is a fairly large part of what separates TV from film, in terms of editing, so I’m disappointed TFA won’t have that.
Especially since the other 6 movies and The Clone Wars do.
I fucking HATE letterboxing. I love 2.39:1 ratio. it feels and looks more cinematic and helps seperate TV shows from movies.
Agree 100%. I noticed that during the Ant-Man Blu Ray and got really annoyed. xD
My fave is 2.75:1 — that ultra wide image is just so slick and appealing imo. But I’m just glad the Blu Ray will be letterboxed.
Uh…what?
Ooohhh, sorry — I confused that for 1.85:1. My bad.
(but I still wish it was 2.75:1. xD)
Got it. For a minute there I thought you were certifiable.
Surely one of the BR discs will be the film in 3d?