Jedi Master 33

According to The Digital Bits, WB is set to announce a Blu-Ray version of Return of the Joker soon. http://www.digitalbits.com/#mytwocents

badlieut

Awesome...hopefully that brings forth Mask of the Phantasm and Subzero and the Animated Series.

fumanstan

Ooo, interesting. I wonder how much this would actually be improved on Blu-ray?

milo bloom

The uncut DVD version was a non-anamorphic widescreen version. Would love to have a seamless branching disc with both versions in 16x9 (see sig).

RockyMtnBri

Nice - I will be picking this up. Hopefully it'll offer both versions of the film.

MTRodaba2468

Interesting. I'd be willing to pick this one up...

gryffinmaster

I'm looking forward to Return of the Joker, but I'd be lying if I said that this wasn't the first thing I thought when I read the thread title.

MTRodaba2468

Yeah, admittedly, I'd certainly pick Mask Of The Phantasm over Return Of The Joker if I had my choice...

Travis McClain

I don't mind saying this was a pleasant surprise to read! I still haven't seen much of the series, but I'm on the lookout for a good deal on the recently released complete series box set. Even if I never get around to that, though, it'll be nice to have this in its proper aspect ratio and in HD. Fun stuff!

Jedi Master 33

Well, according to the back art, the aspect ratio is 1.33.1{same as the version on Netflix Streaming}.

GenPion

My head just exploded. Full Frame?! What I was hoping to hear is that the movie was finally getting an anamorphic wide-screen presentation. I hope that was a typo/error. I want this in 1:78:1 or I doubt I'll be willing to make this an upgrade.

milo bloom

No sale.

I swear, sometimes the studios make it so easy for me to not buy more discs that will sit on my shelves and gather dust.

fumanstan

So... any idea what the animators originally intended?

TheMovieman

If it originally was animated for 1.33 then I'm fine with it.

Iron_Giant

Maybe when it is $7.99 in a year or two, but I just watched the DVD a month ago and it was fine.

Really do love the movie, it is a very logical progression for Batman and all of his "Friends".

GenPion

I have no idea. All I know is the 'Director's Cut' was supposedly intended for 1:78:1 and that is why it was released on DVD that way. It was also shown in select theaters back when it originally came out. I wasn't able to attend a screening though, so I cannot comment on which aspect ratio it was shown in theatrically.

Evil ASh

If you look at the making of on the dvd you'll see that the storyboards are in wide, so I'd say it's 1:78:1
And I would KILL to get Mask of Phantasm in high definition!

TheMovieman

In that case, no deal for me.

Same situation as the Justice League Season 1 Blu-ray. The storyboards were animated for 1.78 yet the episodes were 1.33.

TRC

Return of the Joker was animated in 1.33:1 and the widescreen version was cropped. Whether or not it's supposed to be cropped is up for debate I guess.

I'm surprised we're getting this on Blu-ray before Mask of the Phantasm but Batman Beyond has been getting a big push lately. They just released the complete series boxset, the series is re-airing on the Hub, and DC is publishing a new comic book which I think might be the catalyst for all this.

whotony

Why would you wonder about that?
Can you make that a little bigger, I can't see every single pixel with it that small.

fumanstan

Why wouldn't I?

EvlAsh

You are right about it being animated in 1.33:1, but just like the Justice League animated series, it was intended for and framed for 1.78.1 Widescreen.

Adam Tyner

My memory is pretty fuzzy, but I'm pretty sure the storyboards and stuff they showed in the behind-the-scenes footage had 1.78:1 defined within the square-ish boxes. When they were sketching everything out, they definitely knew where it'd fall in widescreen.

whotony

What is there to wonder about?

Jedi Master 33

It gets worse. Toonzone is reporting that it is 4.3 letterboxed


http://www.toonzone.net/forums/showt...11#post3766911

Seriously, what are they thinking?