Disney may soon be making an entrance to UHD BD (as in April soon). From Bill Hunt:
According to the German BD site Bluray-Disc.de, Disney and Marvel have licensed Iron Man, Iron Man 2, and Iron Man 3 to Concorde Home Entertainment for release in Germany on the 4K Ultra HD format on 4/6, both individually and as a Steelbook trilogy. You can see more here and also here.
If this is true, it would seem likely that a U.S. release is also soon to be announced. After all, the 4K Ultra HD format is all-region. It’s very hard to imagine Marvel and Disney sacrificing potential sales here in the States due to enthusiasts importing copies.
We know that Disney has been waiting for more Dolby Vision capability to start appearing in 4K hardware before joining the format and, as we reported at CES last month, Sony, TCL, LG, Vizio, and Philips have all agreed to support Dolby Vision in their displays and players. The new Oppo UDP-203 player will also support Dolby Vision after a forthcoming firmware update.
We’ve reached out to Disney to see if we can find out more on this and we’ll let you know if and what we hear back from them.
I’m really surprised to hear Bill say something uneducated like that. Movies coming out in other regions (from other studios) is about as indicative of a stateside release as seeing it on cable in HD. Or being able to buy it streaming.
One really has nothing to do with the other.