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Release Date: June 16, 2009 |
[The first-released copies of the Blu-Ray come with a shiny slipsleeve around the plastic case. The artwork is the same as on the case, but the blue areas have a shiny foil on them. I saw one in FYE on November 3, 2009, but only one of their copies had the slipsleeve on it; the other one was just the case. I e-mailed SPHE customer support to see if they could send me one of these slipsleeves, but I was told that "Unfortunately, there is nothing we can do for the Ghostbusters Slipsleeve issue. We only manufacture a small amount of the slipsleeves and they are sent out with the first wave of the discs. We no longer carry these slipsleeves in our warehouse." It's a bummer that they didn't have any more in the warehouse because I really would have liked one. As nice as it looked in the store, I was not going to re-buy something I just bought less than a month before, and at over DOUBLE the price I paid! FYE wanted $29, I got it for $12.50 on Amazon.]
Special Features
- Slimer Mode: Picture-in-Picture and Pop-Up Trivia Track
- Ecto-1: Resurrecting the Classic Car featurette
- Ghostbusters Garage: Ecto-1 Restoration Photo Gallery
- Making of Ghostbusters: The Video Game featurette
- Ghostbusters: The Video Game "Atari Live/When Disaster Strikes" Trailer (originally re-released January 29, 2009, with Peter end clip) (video, screens)
- Most of the Special Features from the 1999 DVD (see below for what's missing)
- PlayStation 3 Ghostbusters Theme - Put the disc in your PS3; on the PS3's home screen go to the Games tab, and you should find an option to install the theme off of the disc. (source)
Missing Special Features
(from the 1999 DVD release)
- Video Commentary subtitle track.
- "Tricks & Trivia" subtitle track.
- All image galleries: Production Photos (288 images total), Conceptual Drawings (230 images total), Storyboards (361 images total).
- All four trailers: Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, Groundhog Day, Stripes.
- All DVD-ROM content: Screenplay & Filmographies.
Multimedia
- Video image comparison between this Blu-Ray and other digital home video releases
- Packaging - Case Liner - Outside (1500x839, 1.2 Mb)
- Packaging - Case Liner - Inside
- Packaging - Disc
- Packaging - 25th Anniversary Sticker on Package
- Packaging - Double-Sided Insert Ad - Video Game
- Packaging - Double-Sided Insert Ad - Mattel Figures
- Packaging - Key Art (1081x1261, 968 Kb) (image courtesy of the SPHE Publicity website)
- Menu Shots (13 images) (on most Blu-rays the menu is placed over a looped video instead of being individual screens like on DVD) (images have been shrunk down from 1920x1080 to 700x393)
- Menu Sample (1:29)
- Screenshots: The original 1920x800 resolution shots used on the Home Video Image Comparison page, done by Raffaele Ruffaldi.
- Screenshots: Blu-Ray.com (has 720p screenshots, join for free to see 1080p shots)
- Trailer - Pre-Street "Available June 16th on Blu-Ray High Def" (1:23)
* Sony Pictures - Streaming / Streaming / Download MP4 / Download MP4 (480x270, 7.2 Mb)
* Amazon - Streaming / Download FLV (720x544, 10.1 Mb) / Download FLV (720x544, 6.4 Mb) / Download FLV (368x288, 5.2 Mb)
- Trailer - Post-Street "Now on Blu-Ray High Def" (1:23)
* Sony Pictures - Download MOV (640x360, 13.4 Mb)
* Sony Pictures - Streaming / Download MP4 (480x270, 7.2 Mb)
- Trailer (1:25) (doesn't give street date or say "available now" as the other trailers do)
* Sony Pictures - Download MOV (1:22, 640x360, 13.4 Mb)
* YouTube - Streaming 1 / Streaming 2
Outside Links
- Official Site #1
- Official Site #2
- Press Release (mentions a "collectible 32 page scrapbook" that was not included in the final product)
- Review: The Digital Bits
- Review: High Def Disc News (lots of high quality images)
- Review: DVD Beaver (lots of high quality images)
- Review: High-Def Digest
- Review: Blu-Ray.com
- Review: IGN Video (video review)