The creators of Avatar are taking the blu-ray disc format and the BD-Live capabilities seriously! The first release of Avatar has been out for many months now and with the upcoming extended edition on the way the BD-Live option for the current blu-ray are coming alive!
With access to a BD-Live player with a network connection, once you insert your Avatar blu-ray into the player a LIVE EXTRAS option will appear in the main menu. By selecting this, new content will quickly download, allowing you to access preview video clips from the forthcoming Avatar: Collector’s Edition blu-ray.
Here’s a list of the videos that will be available via BDLive and Avatar on blu-ray:
- Bar Fight: Excerpt from the Collector’s Extended Cut
- Users Guide for AVATAR deleted scenes
- Kauai: Excerpt from documentary
- Grandma’s Teylu: Never Before Seen Deleted Scene
- 2006 Art Reel Excerpt
- Driving Range: Never Before Seen Deleted Scene
- Acting in the Volume: Excerpt from documentary
- Drums of War (full version): Never Before Seen Deleted Scene
- Scene Deconstruction: Demonstration
- “What did happen”: Excerpt from the Collector’s Extended Cut
The following pieces of content are going on the Portal for the Avatar ECE November disc:
- Crew Short: The Night Before Avatar
- Raw Footage Production Elements (runtime estimated 51:55)
- Screen Test – Sam Worthington & Zoe Saldana (Raw Footage) (10:44)
- Screen Test – Stephen Lang (Raw Footage) (4:30)
- Screen Test – Giovanni Ribisi (Raw Footage) (3:10)
- Screen Test – Joel David Moore (Raw Footage) (4:10)
- Screen Test – CCH Pounder (Raw Footage) (4:47)
- Screen Test – Laz Alonso (Raw Footage) (6:49)
- Speaking Na’vi (Rehearsal/Raw Footage) (6:39)
- Weta Workshop: Walk & Talk Presentation (Raw Footage) (11:06)