Heroes: Seasons One and Two Soaring to Blu-ray
Posted April 17, 2008 12:52 PM by Josh

Universal Studios Home Entertainment has announced they will release 'Heroes: Season One' and 'Heroes: Season Two' for Blu-ray on August 26th. The first season was released on DVD and HD DVD last August, and the second season will be released on Blu-ray day-and-date with the DVD release. No specs or extras have been announced at this time.

The 'Heroes: Season Two' release will be the first global release on Blu-ray for Universal, indicating that it will be available in all territories on August 26th. This also places the previous seasons in the hands of fans a few days before the proposed start of the third season of the popular television series.

No word on whether 'Heroes: Season One' will be a port of the previous HD DVD release, or if it will be optimized for Blu-ray. We'll post more details on all the upcoming Universal titles when they come available.

Universal Unveils Inaugural Slate of Film and TV Offerings Coming to Blu-ray™ Disc Day and Date With DVD

'HEROES: Season Two' Will Mark the Studio's First Global Event Release
Lineup to Include Summer 2008's Most Anticipated Films From Universal
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UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif., April 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Universal Studios Home
Entertainment revealed its initial lineup of film and television properties
arriving later this year on Blu-ray™ Disc, day and date with DVD, it was
announced today by Craig Kornblau, President, Universal Studios Home
Entertainment and Universal Pictures Digital Platforms. Marking the rollout
of the studio's first global release on Blu-ray™ will be the "HEROES:
Season Two," which will debut beginning August 26, 2008.

The highly anticipated premier of the sophomore season of NBC's
"HEROES" will be buoyed by the simultaneous debut of "HEROES Season One" on
Blu-ray™.

This may be stupid, but does that mean the "regular" version of Season 2 will be available on Aug. 26th as well? Once again, please forgive the stupidity of this question.

i think so, but im not 100% sure. it does sound like it though

*also wants to know the answer to this question*

You're welcome

I think what I'm most eager to see are the extras and the boxart.

Awesome! I can finally sell my HD-DVD player now. I was only keeping it so I could watch Heroes in 1080p goodness. I guess the only downside is now I have to buy a PS3. Hmm..

I can't wait to find out if I can import them to Australia, but I haven't really looked into how the region locking works on Blu-Ray yet.

TVShowsOnDVD.com has posted a full list of the extras that will be included on "regular" DVD and Blu-ray:

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Heroes-He...s-Material/9832

Universal Unwraps 'Heroes' Blu-ray Specs

Mon Jun 16, 2008 at 09:00 AM ET
Tags: Disc Announcements, TV on High-Def, Universal (all tags)

Universal has announced full specs for the first two seasons of 'Heroes,' which will hit Blu-ray this Summer with a bevy of bonus material and high-def exclusives.
As previously reported, Universal announced a August 26 Blu-ray street date for both 'Heroes: Season One' and 'Heroes: Season Two' (the latter day-and-date with the standard DVD version).

Now the full specs are in, with the first season spread across five BD-50 dual-layer discs, and the second, shorter season (cut short by the writer's strike) only a four-platter set. Both releases will enjoy 1080p video and English DTS-HD Lossless Master Audio 5.1 Surround tracks, plus English, French and Spanish subtitles.
Supplements on 'Season One' will match the previous HD DVD release, with a bevy of extras including the 73-minute Premiere Episode (with optional audio commentary by show creator Tim Kring), four featurettes ("Making Of," "Special Effects," "The Stunts," "Profile of Artist Tim Sale"), an artwork presentation, and deleted scenes.
'Season Two' will include five featurettes ( "Heroes Season 2: A New Beginning," "Takezo Kensei: Sword Saint," "Genetics of a Scene," "The Drucker Files," "Generations After"), a series of additional NBC.com featurettes, deleted scenes, and a still gallery.
Both season sets will also come enabled with Bonus View (Profile 1.1) picture-in-picture commentaries with cast and crew (on select episodes), plus BD-Live extras including cast bios, MyScenes bookmark sharing, and more to be announced.

Retail price for 'Season One' has been set at $69.98 with 'Season Two' set at $49.98.
As always, you'll find the latest specs for 'Heroes: Season One' and 'Heroes: Season Two' linked from our Blu-ray Release Schedule, where they're indexed under August 26.

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After a total eclipse of the sun casts an eerie shadow across the earth, a handful of seemingly ordinary individuals discover they possess extraordinary powers. Drawn together, they realize their ultimate destiny is nothing less than to save the world.

In the show's strike shortened second season, The Company advances its virus research and one of the Heroes has a vision of the potential devastation it will wreak on the population of New York City.

From Universal Studios Home Entertainment comes Heroes Season Two. The four DVD box set includes all episodes from the show's sophomore season along with alternate endings, untold stories and a must-see season three sneak peek. The show returns to NBC for a highly anticipated third season on September 22.

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Can anyone with the blu-ray set access the bd-live content? Can't for the life of me find out what you are supposed to do! (Watching on ps3, if that makes any difference).

I don't think that Universal has launched there BD Live yet. I could be wrong though but I believe it is being launched on September 30th not sure though. Also on disc one of the blu-ray set in the Chapters section does your episode one title say "Four Months Later" instead of "Four Months Later..." which is the title they give in the box set?

It's "later..." on the box insert.