Harry Potter cast talk about DvD/Blu-Ray features

[Michael]

WEST HERTFORDSHIRE, England — After spending a decade of your life building up a worldwide phenomenon, a film franchise that’s taken up a large chunk of your childhood and turned you into a star, what’s the first thing you do when it’s over?

“First thing is to dye my hair back to the natural hair color,” said James Phelps, who plays redheaded Fred Weasley in the Harry Potter franchise, saying he wasn’t quite sure what his natural hair color was.

Currently filming the two-part finale of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows at Leavesden Film Studios just north of London, the cast of the franchise spoke with Home Media Magazine about what to expect from the DVD and Blu-ray Disc releases of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Dec. 8, Warner Home Video).

Warner is offering single- and two-disc DVD options, but every cast member pointed to the Blu-ray Disc as the way to go (Warner is including a DVD and digital copy with the high-def option). On Dec. 12 Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) and director David Yates will host a first-ever, worldwide community screening of the film via BD Live. One hundred thousand fans will listen to the two live as they answer questions while the film is rolling.

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I'm just now starting to make the transition to Blu-Ray. I'll be buying the big expensive edition of this release. But I'm still looking for low-cost DvDs because they look absolutely fantastic on our new hybrid Blu-Ray/DvD player when we use the HDMI connection. It's almost impossible to tell the difference between Blu-Ray and DvD over HDMI (something the marketers don't tell you).