{"id":212,"date":"2009-06-25T14:11:54","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T03:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=212"},"modified":"2010-01-29T13:05:28","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T02:05:28","slug":"gladiator-for-blu-ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=212","title":{"rendered":"Gladiator for Blu-ray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Universal Pictures has announced the release of Ridley Scott&#8217;s famous <em>Gladiator<\/em> on Blu-ray. They aren&#8217;t skimping, delivering it on two dual layer discs, including the theatrical release (155 mins) and an extended version (171 mins), plus 11 hours of extra stuff. Universal&#8217;s &#8216;U-Control&#8217; feature for popping up additional information is included.<\/p>\n<p>I was playing with that on the Blu-ray of <em>The Bourne Identity<\/em> last night (I&#8217;ll be putting up a Blu-ray vs DVD comparison in the next couple of days), and it really is very good.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the version of <em>The Gladiator<\/em> that I have is the PAL Superbit release, so it should make for an interesting comparison. If I can get them to let me have a review copy (Universal seems to be a bit reluctant on that front compared to the other studios).<\/p>\n<p>Release date: 30 September 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Universal Pictures has announced the release of Ridley Scott&#8217;s famous Gladiator on Blu-ray. They aren&#8217;t skimping, delivering it on two dual layer discs, including the theatrical release (155 mins) and an extended version (171 mins), plus 11 hours of extra &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=212\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}