'Avatar' Returning to iTunes Store with Scene Deconstruction and Green Screen X-Ray Extras
Twentieth Century Fox today announced the upcoming debut of an exclusive iTunes Extras special edition version of the film Avatar, bringing several new interactive features including the ability to deconstruct scenes to see how they were made and a "Green Screen X-ray" that allows users to easily see the original green screen footage behind certain scenes.
Fans can experience the global box office sensation like never before as they control scene deconstructions in simultaneous views. This new feature will also enable consumers to interact with the performance capture and visual effects levels in 17 of the film’s scenes. For the first time ever, Green Screen X-ray gives users an interactive look through the visual effects levels to see the original green screen footage behind a pivotal scene.
Other extras include screenplay content from James Cameron and a gallery of over 1,700 images related to the film.Avatar [iTunes Store] is available for pre-order now and will debut on December 20th. Pricing is set at $19.99 for the HD version and $14.99 for standard definition.
A basic version of Avatar was available in the iTunes Store for several months last year, but was pulled from iTunes and other digital marketplaces as an extended collector's edition of the film debuted on Blu-ray and DVD in November 2010.
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So wait, we have to repurchase it?
Nope. The one you have will keep working.
Right now there is no HD pre-order.
Personally I thought the movie was terrible, but I'm in my thirties and I don't think the movie was made for my age group.
Cameron sure likes to rip people off with the same film over and over again:mad:
Oh wait i can get the blu ray for 10 to watch on m'y 50" plasma?
Oops, looks like the movie studios forgot that if they don't provide customers what they want, there are easy (free) alternatives. And then they go around moaning about piracy. As long as they keep pulling stuff like this (removing Avatar from iTunes after releasing it on bluray, not providing HD options) I will have little sympathy for them. Their strategy is incredibly stupid.
It is truly and utterly ridiculous, I agree. Studios only have themselves to blame for, for the rampant pirating of their content. I also find it incredibly frustrating to see content constantly reshuffled around in the iTunes store before and after blu-ray releases. I understand the studios' paranoia with digital distributed content, but like you say, this attitude just reinforces piracy.
Lame that you have to repurchase it, I wish studios would stop screwing over customers like that, but I guess they do kind of exist to make money.
Anyway, I loved the movie and am ready for the sequel(s). I know, shame on me for enjoying a movie that isn't shot in black and white or in a foreign language with English subtitles.
Subtitles are for wimps. If you can't learn to speak the language before the move starts, just bring a cross language dictionary with you to the flick.
PS. It is rude to bring one of those little flashlights to a movie, so, learn to read in the dark.
:)
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