The Man from Earth (2007) DVD ADDED

[Brent_Reid]

Title: The Man from Earth (2007)
Tagline: From an acclaimed writer of the original Star Trek and The Twilight Zone comes a story that transcends both time and space...
Director: Richard Schenkman
Country: US
Region: 1
Distributor: Anchor Bay/Starz
Case Type: Keep case
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Anamorphic?: Yes
PAL or NTSC?: NTSC
Soundtracks: Dolby Digital English 5.1 and 2.0 surround
Subtitles: None
Cuts: (and if you know it, precise run time) None (87:00)
Commentaries: Two:
- With producer/director Richard Schenkman and actor John Billingsley
- With executive producer Emerson Bixby and author Gary Westfahl
Extras: Featurettes:
- "From Script to Screen" (2:11)
- "Star Trek: Jerome Bixby's SciFi Legacy" (3:49)
- "On the Set" (4:00)
- "The Story of the Story" (2:12)
- Trailers: (play on start-up) “Hatchet”, “Jimmy and Judy”, “Shanghai Kiss”, “The Quiet Earth”, “Running Free”
Notes:
Easter Eggs: None
ASIN: B000UYX4Q8
Source: My own copy

This low budget film was shot with two standard definition Panasonic AG-DVX100A cameras. The single layer US BD features the exact same transfer as the DVD and has the same lossy Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack, though it loses the 2.0 stereo one. Additionally, it loses all the DVD's extra features.
I had the BD originally but when I realised it was vanilla I eventually got the DVD too and offloaded the former. On my 104" screen there was no difference whatsoever between the two images. Obviously the sound was the same too, so there was no reason to keep the BD. There's a full review of it on the Beaver, so you could add the specs from there.

[James-Masaki_Ryan]

Thanks, surprised the DVD or the Blu were not already in our database. Added them!

[Brent_Reid]

I've checked occasionally and always been amazed this brilliant film wasn't added much sooner too. I kept putting off posting a comparison in the hope someone else would, but thought it was time to finally get the ball rolling. Bloody well done for finding the specs on all those other DVDs!

[James-Masaki_Ryan]

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