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"Clear Eyes Full Hearts Can't Lose."
- 5 August 2005
- Spurs, Suns and Cowboys
The only difference is the HD picture and HD sound, that would be enough for me. Also most of the extras are in SD too.
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The Supplements: Digging Into the Good Stuff
When Warner first released the gargantuan 'The Matrix' trilogy box set on DVD a few years back, it set the bar for sheer volume of supplemental material. It's simply information overload, with so many audio commentaries, documentaries, featurettes, deleted scenes and short films that it's possible to imagine even the most diehard 'Matrix' fan feeling a little overwhelmed.
This embarrassment of riches continued with last year's HD DVD release, which ported over all of the same materials, plus threw in a few exclusive picture-in-picture commentaries. Warner has not given Blu-ray short thrift, for now we have 'The Ultimate Matrix Collection' which again compiles over 35 hours of material in one mammoth seven disc set. A bit more compact than the seven discs found in the HD DVD edition, for Blu-ray Warner spreads out the extras across three BD-50 dual-layer movie discs, another BD-50 for 'The Animatrix,' and two more standard DVD platters with additional extras (one double-sided).
Unfortunately, like the HD DVD, the Blu-ray finds much of this bonus material presented in 480p/i/MPEG-2 only. To the studio's credit, they have headed high-def fan outcry, and this time we get upgraded 1080p/VC-1 video and Dolby TrueHD 5.1 Surround audio (48kHz/16-bit) on 'The Animatrix,' which on the HD DVD was standard-def only. No, this entire box is still not in full HD, but it's still a jump up from the HD DVD.
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