Disney Classics Go Blu-ray

On August 29th, 2008

Disney is launching its Platinum Collection line on Blu-ray starting with Sleeping Beauty to be released October 7.

The whole next-generation BD-Live network offers Web-enabled features like chat rooms and video messaging for the U.S. customers only with Sleeping Beauty. The network will go live worldwide in fall 2009 with Snow White.

Among five new Blu-ray releases Pinocchio will be first out of the gate, coming in the spring. Snow White followed in 2010 by Fantasia and Fantasia 2000.

A special release and treat along with the Blu-ray Disney will issue Destino, an unfinished animated feature film created by Walt Disney and famed surrealist painter Salvador Dali. Begun in 1946, the rare film was rediscovered in 2003 and completed by Walt Disney’s nephew, Roy E. Disney.

Then finally, Beauty and the Beast, the only animated film ever nominated for a best picture Oscar. The film will be available as a Blu-ray Disc Platinum Collection release in fall 2010.

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