Lost Season 3 officially confirmed on Blu-ray

by Colin Torretta { Aug 3rd 2007 at 12:00AM }

A couple months age, there were murmurs that ABC's hit show, Lost, would be making it's debut on Blu-ray with the release of the third season of the show. Shortly after the rumors hit the interwebs, Disney stomped out our hopes and denied that such a thing was happening. Luckily, this is one of those times where the corporation lied just to hide the good news for a bit longer. Disney has officially announced that the third season of Lost will be released on Blu-ray at the same time as the DVD release on December 11th.

Specs are pretty nice, with the expected 1080p transfer (up from the ABC HD broadcast of 720p) and feature full uncompressed 5.1 sound. The 6 disc set also will feature a variety of extras, which is a nice change from the normal dearth of bonus content found on Blu-ray releases. They are including actor/writer commentary on some episodes, deleted scenes, bloopers, and five making-of Lost featurettes.

The release is grandiosely titled, Lost: Season 3 -- The Unexplored Experience and will retail for $124.99. Even though the price is a bit steep, it sounds like a great collection and you can pretty much be guaranteed for Amazon to sell it for $90-$100 when it comes out. Now if Showtime only release Dexter on Blu-ray as well ...

Tags: blu-ray, Lost

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Andy @ Aug 3rd 2007 12:22AM

5 discs?

I wish they would take advantage of the 50 GB discs and put it on 2 or 3 discs.

I realize its cheaper to put them on 25 GB discs but why not use the space if its there?

F-Man @ Aug 3rd 2007 12:33AM

@1,

I doubt those'll be 25 GB discs, especially if they use uncompressed audio. And that right there is what they're doing wrong, using uncompressed audio on a TV series when they should be saving as much space as possible to reduce the amount of discs.

Bring on the lossless codecs!

kingofwale @ Aug 3rd 2007 12:42AM

oh man, that's pretty steep for 1 season.

I will pass

Aex @ Aug 3rd 2007 1:13AM

I'd cream my pants for dexter on blu-ray

Nick @ Aug 3rd 2007 1:39PM

I don't understand why we keep being told that the benefits of these larger discs will allow us to get full seasons on single discs and then they turn around and stretch it out on as many discs as possible to get a massive profit. There is no way this set, as awesome as it may be, is worth $125! Look at the cost of blank Blu-Ray discs and tell me we aren't being ripped off.

EDGE @ Aug 3rd 2007 8:08AM

I will no doubt be purchasing this, huge lost fan, and now on blu-ray to boot! More discs than I expected, but no matter.

Popfrogs @ Aug 3rd 2007 8:17AM

6 discs...something doesn't add up here.

Popfrogs @ Aug 3rd 2007 9:13AM

Speaking as a MythTV owner with a firewire connection to an HD box...standard 720p broadcasts and 1080i broadcasts take up around 2 gigs per hour. Now if we double this and add uncompressed audio to compensate for 1080p, you end up with 4 gigs per hour...however I imagine they'll be using AVC instead of MPEG4 which should keep the size a little lower.

So, 5 hours should yield ~20 gigs. The standard single layer BR discs hold 25 gigs.

Season 3 was 22 episodes long. 22 episodes at very roughly 4 gigs per episode (I know my math is off since each episode is shorter than an hour) yields 88 gigs of data. 88 gigs will fit neatly onto 4 BR discs with space to spare on each one (12 gigs left over for bonus material).

I wonder what I'm missing here still.