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Originally posted by VirusKiller:
My UK copies of King Kong and Serenity have just arrived. Well they have "Sold and distributed in the E.U. by Universal Pictures (UK)" on the packaging, so I assume they are the UK transfers...
Kong is the same mastering encode as the US version, but on the EU disc they removed most (all?) of the U-Control features for whatever reason.. Not a huge loss as the US one in its own right is fairly sparse extras wise failing to port even everything from the two-disc DVD which was cheeky of Universal. In true Peter Jackson fashion, with a longer cut of the film on a four-disc DVD release with around one million hours of extras* the ape is bound for an HD re-issue at some point.

*might be an exaggeration.

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Originally posted by VirusKiller:

But I was rather surprised at something that maybe I shouldn't have been: the standard definition extras are in 480i/p. Interesting.
There are a growing number with 1080i/p supplements too. Paramount are quite big on that, and Warner increasingly so (deleted scenes on Superman Returns are 1080p, some stuff on Harry Potter is HD as well). Weinstein Co discs have a lot of HD supplements too.