First European HD DVD release
by Matt Burns 
posted Aug 14th 2006 at 11:22AM
Europe can now taste all the HD DVD goodness thanks to an animated short called elephants dream. This film is now Europe's first HD DVD and it looks like it would be a treat to watch. The flick is up on YouTube and you can get the jest of the story but it just doesn't do it justice like VC-1 or MPEG-2 would. In fact, this disc has the film encoded in both of the codec's and allows the viewer to choose which one to watch. The disc is of course encoded in 1080p and has tons of cool extra features that take full advantage of HD DVD's iHD experience. There are several audio commentaries, "Making of" documentaries that use the PIP mode, and even a script-to-scene mode. The HD DVD is currently available for 14.90 Euros ($19.03 USD) but to get it shipped to the States is going to cost you another $16.59.[Screenshots after the jump]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jeff @ Aug 14th 2006 11:46AM
I have a copy of just the short in HD and it does have awesome picture quality!!
Keith @ Aug 14th 2006 4:57PM
This movie is actually a cool concept. The creators actually created the movie in Blender, which is a free 3D modeling program. They did this to show people that their free progam can compete with what the movie studios use. You can actually download the movie for free from http://orange.blender.org/, but I dont know if you can get it in high def from there.
Bill @ Aug 15th 2006 11:33AM
Yep, you can download it in High-Def from there (815MB). MPEG4, AC-3 5.1.