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Transformers-animated.de.vu are reporting that Paramount Germany have announced the release of their first Transformers: Animated DVD for August, which is likely to include “Transform and Roll Out!”, the three-part movie special.
With this news, it is expected that the rest of Europe will get a similar DVD package at the same time.
TVShowsonDVD.com have received a copy of the back cover to the first Transformers: Animated DVD, featuring the 3 part movie, “Transform and Roll Out!”.
The DVD, due out in North Amercia on 17th June, will also contain 2 animated shorts as extras.
TVShowsonDVD.com have received the cover for Transformers: Cybertron The Ultimate Collection, a 7 disc DVD set that contains all 52 episodes of the series.
No extras have been announced, and there isn’t likely to be any. However, it’s still “the ultimate collection for the ultimate fan”.
TVShowsonDVD are reporting that Hasbro and Paramount Home Entertainment are going to release the whole of Transformers: Cybertron on DVD on 22nd July 08.
Transformers: Cybertron – The Ultimate Collection will have 52 episodes (each 22 mins long, totalling 19 hours 4 mins) in English audio and full screen. No details on the audio format, extra features or cover art have been revealed yet.
Paramount Home Entertainment have only released 1 DVD for Transformers: Cybertron so far, Transformers: Cybertron A New Beginning, in North America in September 05, in UK in April 06 and in Australia in July 06.
Optimus Prime and the Autobots face the greatest danger in all eternity, a menace that threatens not only the survival of the Transformers, but the very existence of CYBERTRON and the universe itself. CYBERTRON, the TRANSFORMERS home planet is on the brink of destruction as an ominous Black Hole looms. In order to save their world, the TRANSFORMERS embark upon an intergalactic scavenger hunt across the universe searching for the lost Cyber Planet Keys.
The evil DECEPTICONS, villains unlike any you have seen before, are in a race against the Heroic AUTOBOTS to recover these lost Cyber Planet Keys – keys that have the power to unlock the CYBERTRON planet itself, creating the greatest TRANSFORMER the universe has ever seen! The battle will span the galaxy in a race to wield the all powerful Planet Keys and to save their home world of CYBERTRON from certain DOOM!!
About a month ago, an image was released that was apparently the cover art to Paramount Home Entertainment’s release of the first 3 episodes of Transformers: Animated, entitled “Transform and Roll out!”.
TVShowsonDVD have apparently now received an updated image, in a larger size. The DVD also has a new name Transformers: Animated – Transform And Roll Out, most likely in a bid not to confuse it with the 1986 animated movie or the 2007 live action movie.
After the news last week about the first Transformers: Animated DVD release, we have more news for you. The disc will be known as Transformers: Animated Movie, and is confirmed as containing ‘Transform & Roll Out’.
The ‘not final’ artwork has been released by TVShowsonDVD in a really small format. We will see if Paramount Home Entertainment will release a, non watermarked, bigger version.
The first details of Transformers: Animated being released on DVD have been revealed today. Surprisingly, they have come from Paramount Home Entertainment and not Warner Home Video, who own Cartoon Network.
The first releases is simply listed as being 70 minutes long in full screen with an English stereo audio track. The DVD is due for release in North America on 17th June. It is assumed that the disc will contain the animated special “Transform and Roll Out”.
We will attempt to find out more about this and other releases soon.
Just continuing the rumours of Paramount switching over to Blu-ray is news from long running DVD site The Digital Bits, who have often predicted correctly future news.
Apparently, Paramount is preparing an announcement about switching away from HD DVD with Universal also in discussion. Paramount will release the films that were packaged and ready for retail, and this includes Transformers.
Well… we’ve had SOME confirmation this morning of the details of the Financial Times story from last night. While the studio isn’t yet commenting, reliable industry sources are telling us that Paramount is indeed preparing to end their HD-DVD support and announce a return to the Blu-ray fold. Details are currently being finalized, and an announcement is expected as soon as they’re complete. Paramount’s first new Blu-rays will almost certainly include many of those titles that were cancelled last year, but that were already packaged and ready for shipping, so you could see them in stores very quickly once the studio announces.
Meanwhile, sources are telling us that Universal has also been talking with the BDA, and is looking to follow Paramount and Warner’s lead as soon as possible.
In some good news for Paramount’s Home Entertainment department, Transformers has been revealed as the top selling DVD of 2007 in the USA. The disc sold 13.74 million copies in just under 3 months. It beat out Happy Feet, released early in the year, and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, released in December.
In the high-def formats, Transformers came third, primarily due to it being HD DVD exclusive. 300 on Blu-ray was the top seller with Planet Earth from the BBC second.
Top-selling DVDs of 2007
1. Transformers (Paramount/DreamWorks): 13.74 million units
2. Happy Feet (Warner): 13.48
3. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (Disney): 13.20
4. 300 (Warner): 12.91
5. Ratatouille (Disney): 12.06
6. Shrek the Third (Paramount/DreamWorks): 11.84
7. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Warner): 10.14
8. The Departed (Warner): 8.94
9. Night at the Museum (Fox): 8.66
10. The Bourne Ultimatum (Universal): 7.36
Top-selling high-definition discs of 2007
1. 300 (Blu-ray/Warner): 472,400
2. Planet Earth: The Complete Series (both formats/BBC Video): 294,300
3. Transformers (HD DVD/Paramount/DreamWorks): 239,100
4. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (Blu-ray/Disney): 219,300
5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (both/Warner): 179,500
6. The Departed (both/Warner): 171,800
7. Casino Royale (Blu-ray/Sony): 169,800
8. Bourne Ultimatum (HD DVD/Universal): 162,300
9. Spider-Man 3 (Blu-ray/Sony): 145,300
10. Ratatouille (Blu-ray/Disney): 117,500
Source: USA Today
With Warner Bros. choosing a side in the format war, it seems that HD DVD could be dead within months. Last year, Paramount signed a deal with the HD DVD group to go exclusive, however, according to the Financial Times, there was a get out clause, which stated that if Warner went to Blu-ray, Paramount could move as well.
This is all good news for Transformers fans, as the film will eventually be released on Blu-ray.
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