According to Home Media Retailing's magazine it's coming to both formats from Warner:

Blue Planet
6/19
Re-release
Documentary
$28.99
Warner. 1990. Images of Earth as seen from 200 miles in space, filmed in Imax 15/70 format. Includes the bonus film The Dream is Alive, also filmed in 15/70, which follows astronauts in outer space.

here are some links with information about the film:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099158/
http://www.imax.com/films/now_playing/blue_planet.html
http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Planet-IMAX-James-Buchli/dp/B00005BCKI

I wonder how they create these discs from imax film - presumably the digital master they produce from scanning the film negative is way higher resolution than 35mm film and HD.

Rad, will be a good supplement to Discovery's Planet Earth and worthy of some wide-eyed, jaw-gaping vistas I'm sure.

Only 42 minutes long? :( I'll have to pass on this one

The target audience is grade school children.
I think I'll pass.
J

Only 42 minutes long? :( I'll have to pass on this one

I hope you realize that 98% of IMAX features are that length? The fact Warner is including a second IMAX film, The Dream is Alive, makes this disc a double feature. Let's hope these sell well, so they can release more IMAX titles like Africa Serengeti and Antarctica.

Excellent, added to my list. Love those IMAX features!

If the second feature is the one where they walk around the space station, it is FANTASTIC! Saw it at the Luxor during a break from drinking and gambling :P

This will be awesome. I wonder what aspect ratio it will be presented in. Isn't Imax 1.33:1 or something like that? I, for one, would forgive a little cropping on this type of material to make it 16:9.

This will be awesome. I wonder what aspect ratio it will be presented in. Isn't Imax 1.33:1 or something like that? I, for one, would forgive a little cropping on this type of material to make it 16:9.
That "little cropping", would be like 1/3 of the frame.

Anyone know if this is OAR?
Thanks.

I hope you realize that 98% of IMAX features are that length? The fact Warner is including a second IMAX film, The Dream is Alive, makes this disc a double feature. Let's hope these sell well, so they can release more IMAX titles like Africa Serengeti and Antarctica.


Africa Serengeti with James Earl Jones narrating is a good one. That disc has so much energy in the LFE channel that I have to turn it down just for that dvd.

That "little cropping", would be like 1/3 of the frame.

Anyone know if this is OAR?
Thanks.

More like 1/4, and I don't think I would miss it on images of Earth taken from space. I don't have the inside of a dome to project it on in my house, and I don't think I'll miss that either.