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a.k.a. Avatar: The IMAX Experience, Project 880 DVD – Release Date: 04/22/2010.
a.k.a. Avatar: The IMAX Experience, Project 880 DVD – Original Release: 2009
a.k.a. Avatar: The IMAX Experience, Project 880 DVD – Sales Rank: 5
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Blu-ray – Wide Screen / Bonus DVD / Subtitled / Dubbed.

An acronym for Digital Video Disc, DVD The IMAX Experience, Project 880 is a next-generation form of the compact disc (CD) capable of rendering a digitized movie for playback with picture and sound quality that far surpasses that of VHS tapes.

Blu-ray Disc
One of two superior DVD formats — along with HD-DVD (see below) — designed to replace conventional DVDs, Blu-ray Discs (BD) allow movie fans to enjoy films in high definition, delivering far more crisply detailed images than standard DVDs. The more technically robust of the two new formats (they hold more data), Blu-ray discs are the same size as DVDs and CDs. Blu-ray Discs, however, will play only in machines emblazoned with the Blu-ray logo. Blu-ray players will play back the earlier formats, although with no improvement in video or audio performance.

HD-DVD
The HD in HD-DVD stands for “high definition.” This superior DVD format — like Blu-ray Discs (see above) — delivers far more crisp images than standard DVDs. HD-DVD discs, which are the same size as DVDs and CDs, will play only in machines emblazoned with the HD-DVD logo. HD players, however, will play back the earlier formats, although with no improvement in video or audio performance.

Wide-Screen
Wide-Screen presentations mirror a film’s original, theatrical height-to-width ratio, with thin black strips across the top and bottom of a traditional square television screen. The plus side of this is that you view the film pretty much as the filmmakers intended you to see it. The minus side, though, is that the image itself could be smaller, a drawback when viewing the film on a 20-inch or smaller TV or computer monitor. If you own a newer Wide-Screen television, then the Wide-Screen DVD will enable you to see the full picture as it was originally filmed.

“Anamorphic” or “Enhanced” Wide-Screen
DVDs marked as “Anamorphic” or “Enhanced” for wide-screen viewing are designed for improved playback on wide-screen TV sets (including 16:9 and HDTV-ready designs). Such discs are fully compatible with conventional televisions.

Full-Screen (a.k.a. Pan-and-Scan)
Full-Screen presentations adapt a movie to fill a TV screen’s contours, eliminating portions of the picture deemed expendable by the producers. This means the film has been cropped to provide maximum impact for your TV or computer. As a result of the pan-and-scan presentation — created by panning around the film image and scanning the crucial characters and action — less of the filmmakers’ original vision appears on your screen.

Superbit DVD
High-resolution Superbit™ DVDs use all available space on each disc to optimize the quality of the movie’s image and sound. That is why there are no special features on Superbit DVDs. While these discs play in all DVD machines, their enhanced performance is best appreciated on today’s high-end home entertainment systems. To make up for the dearth of extras, some Superbit titles include one or more additional DVDs with traditional DVD special features.

DVD Single
As the name suggests, DVD Single is a digital-age update of the old 45 rpm record — a music format that showcases at least one music video and other features.

DVD Audio
A DVD that is usually dedicated to enhanced sound reproduction. While some DVD Audio releases also contain accompanying video footage, not all do. These items will not play on a CD player.

UMD
The UMD (Universal Media Disc) is a high-capacity disc designed for use in the Sony PSP handheld entertainment system. The discs, which measure half the diameter of DVDs and CDs, can offer everything from movies to games, music, and more. UMDs can be played back only in Sony PSP devices, not in DVD or CD players.

Editorial Reviews

A paraplegic ex-marine finds a new life on the distant planet of Pandora, only to find himself battling humankind alongside the planet’s indigenous Na’vi race in this ambitious digital 3D sci-fi epic from Academy Award-winning Titanic director James Cameron. The film, which marks Cameron’s first dramatic feature since 1997’s Titanic, follows Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), a war veteran who gets called to the depths of space to pick up the job of his slain twin brother for the scientific arm of a megacorporation looking to mine the planet of Pandora for a valued ore. Unfortunately the biggest deposit of the prized substance lies underneath the home of the Na’vi, a ten-foot-tall, blue-skinned native tribe who have been at war with the security arm of the company, lead by Col. Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang). Because of the planet’s hostile atmosphere, humans have genetically grown half-alien/half-human bodies which they can jack their consciousnesses into and explore the world in. Since Jake’s brother already had an incredibly expensive Avatar grown for him, he’s able to connect with it using the same DNA code and experience first-hand the joys of Pandora while giving the scientific team, led by Grace Augustine (Sigourney Weaver) and Norm Spellman (Joel David Moore), some well-needed protection against the planet’s more hostile forces.

On a chance meeting after getting separated from his team, Jake’s Avatar is rescued by Neytiri (Zoe Saldana), a Na’vi princess, who brings him into her tribe in order to give the humans a second chance at relating to this new environment. When word gets out of his increasing time with the alien species, Quaritch enlists Jake to do some reconnaissance for the company, as they’d like to persuade the tribe to move their home before taking more drastic measures to harness the treasure hidden below. Yet as Jake becomes one with the tribe and begins to understand the secrets of Pandora, his conscience is torn between his new adopted world and the wheelchair-bound one awaiting him when the psychic connection to his Avatar is broken. Soon battle lines are drawn and Jake needs to decide which side he will fight on when the time comes. The film was shot on the proprietary FUSION digital 3D cameras developed by Cameron in collaboration with Vince Pace, and offers a groundbreaking mix of live-action dramatic performances and computer-generated effects. The revolutionary motion-capture system created for the film allows the facial expressions of actors to be captured as a virtual camera system enables them to see what their computer-generated counterparts will be seeing in the film, and Peter Jackson’s Oscar-winning Weta Digital visual-effects house supervises Avatar’s complex special effects. Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide

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