Universal Adds Four More HD-DVD Releases to Summer Slate
Posted Sun Apr 23, 2006 at 11:20 AM PDT by
Universal Studios Home Entertainment continues their aggressive push of the
HD-DVD format by announcing four new disc releases for this coming June and
July.
Listed over the weekend on the studio's
Home
Video & DVD Release Schedule at UniversalStudios.com are '
The Rundown'
and the Adam Sandler comedy '
Happy
Gilmore' on June
13, followed by '
Friday
Night Lights' and '
Pitch
Black: Unrated Director's Cut' on July 11.
Each film will be presented in its original theatrical aspect ratio and encoded
at full 1080p video, and will offer English, French and Spanish Dolby Digital-Plus
5.1 Surround tracks and English SDH, French and Spanish subtitles.
Each disc will feature the same video-based supplementary material as the standard
DVD releases, though will not include the same text and ROM features. No exclusive
HD content has yet been announced.
Retail is $34.95 each.
All four titles have been added to our comprehensive
HD-DVD
Release Schedule, and we'll keep you posted as any further disc details
come in.