Yet to be seen. We'll have to wait for further announcements.

Good news! I will be getting this one.

Anybody see what Cj posted on AVS?

"I can't comment on title-specific BR's. The HD disc for Superman Returns will be a 30/9 combo as that's pretty much public now. I think it'll have a surprise or 2 for you, though, besides that.

BTW, with all of Bracke's reviews showing Warner discs to now be equivalent to their HD counterparts (Swordfish, House of Wax, Firewall, etc.), what makes you think they'll update the audio for BD's release to 24-bit? I'm not saying yes or no, but have they done something for BD that didn't happen for HD that I'm not aware of? I'd love to see that, but they've exhibited no behavior to show favoritism towards one or the other past the MPEG-2 releases of yore (okay, only a month ago, not really "yore") that I'm aware of. You'll probably have 20GB of empty space on the BD50 for this title as well as any other BD50's.

Cjplay."

I suspect there will be changes to the specs before its released.

According to the Bits - standard def docs, no IME or regular commentary... what a shame. I'll still probably get this but it's probably the first WB release that's a dissapointment. i guess we can hope for the extended deluxe edition in three yrs when the sequel comes out...

They're giving Poseidon the IME treatment, but not Superman Returns?

Also according to the Digital Bits, WB has confirmed DolbyTrueHD. This, to me, is far more important than IME, especially since the documentaries should be pretty in-depth.

True(pun intended). Assuming all the SD-DVD extras are included, I can live without IME. Dolby TrueHD is something I'd take advantage of every single time I watch the movie though.

Now if WB can just confirm Superman: The Movie on HD-DVD has all the same features(and cuts of the film) as the 4-disc SD-DVD, they'll be completely forgiven for this combo debacle.

AFAIK, we will only get one cut of Superman I. However, we should be able to get all the rest of the special features.

What? No IME! I thought I read somewhere that Singer was excited about doing that for the HD DVD release?

Do you have a source on that? And which one will they choose? Either way, we'll be losing a commentary, too....

Just do two discs, Warner. It's not that hard. We'll pay a little more.

So is there any chance the other side of Superman Returns will be the 2nd SD disc? Instead of just the movie again?

Warner Brothers tends to stay away from double dipping like that; they only seem to do it when it's necessary - i.e. Blade Runner, Heat, etc...

I doubt it...they would just be confusing people even more with the "combo" discs.

If the second side of the combo was all SD features from the regular DVD set, then there would be no reason not to have IME on the HD side. But I am positive the second side is the movie again, as it's a huge day and date release.

This combo stuff is disappointing; I refuse to pay extra for them. I figure "Returns" is likely to get a double dip in a year or two... I'll wait. Plenty of other titles to buy in the interim.

http://hddvd.highdefdigest.com/supermanreturns.html

A very positive review for Supes. One review being talked about on AVS...in the BD forum no less, was stating VC1 causing some problems with the HD DVD version. This review mentions no major negatives. No IME, but it does have TrueHD and the 3 hour documentary is just fine with me.

I ordered the big Supes set. Too bad there wasn't an HD version of the set. I'll likely double dip on the HD versions over time, and probably for "Returns" right away.

The review I posted says the features are also on the HD DVD side. That's a lot of info on one side of a disc.

How the hell did they get so much video on the HD side and it still get such high reviews for quality? This one is a must buy for me. I have no problem paying the combo price for a disc this loaded.

I think this shows that Kong could have included some features on one side. I mean, Supes is 157 minutes with TrueHD, 3 hours of extras, and the deleted scenes are also in 1080p, too bad there's no mention of the altered beginning with the Krypton sequences. I'm guess we'll see that in a director's cut + a Singer commentary to tie in to the 2009 sequel.

Great review....i think this is going to be another clear victory for hd-dvd (due to the truehd soundtrack).

I've yet to hear a difference between TrueHD and DD+ on Warner discs, but I will try again with this one. This may be the new audio reference for HD DVD.

I'm sure it could have. I expect that the lack of features on the Kong disc has less to do with disc space than with Universal's plans for an Extended Edition double-dip.