Review: Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs: Diamond Edition Combo Pack

The One2One Net­work sent me the Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs: Dia­monds Edi­tion Combo Pack movie set to review. We recently pur­chased a PS3 for our fam­ily room so that we could watch Blu-ray movies for our fam­ily movie nights. My hus­band can not just watch a movie, we have to watch it in Blu-ray because the qual­ity of Blu-ray is far supe­rior than any­thing else out there. I was a lit­tle skep­ti­cal at first, but he was right. There is noth­ing that com­pares to watch­ing a movie in Blu-ray. The qual­ity is much bet­ter than watch­ing the movie in the movie theater.

The kids and I have all been really sick lately, so one after­noon we all hun­kered down to watch our Snow White movie. The qual­ity of the movie was out­stand­ing. I was sur­prised at how good it looked. I expected it to be very grainy and fuzzy even though it was in Blu-ray since I had assumed it wasn’t filmed for Blu-ray back in 1937.

The Dis­neyView was an inter­est­ing fea­ture. We have a wide-screen TV and the movie didn’t quite fit the screen so on either side of their movie there were addi­tional bor­ders added where there would oth­er­wise have been just black screen. For most of the movie, we didn’t really notice it and we didn’t find it to dis­tract from the movie in any way.

I found the addi­tional bonus fea­tures to be really inter­est­ing (in some cases more inter­est­ing than the movie). I enjoyed the Back­stage Dis­ney tour and the audio com­men­tary, how­ever, my kids did not enjoy any of the bonus fea­tures. They just wanted to watch the movie.

We all know the story of Snow White, so there were no big sur­prises dur­ing the movie. We thor­oughly enjoyed the high qual­ity of the pic­ture and the sound, how­ever, my kids thought the movie was a bit slow in the mid­dle. I had never seen the full ver­sion of the movie. Snow White has been unavail­able in any form since 2001 and was recently released in Blu-ray on Octo­ber 6. The DVD only ver­sion will be released on Novem­ber 24.

The qual­ity of the movie will astound any Dis­ney movie fan. If you plan to pur­chase this movie, I def­i­nitely rec­om­mend pur­chas­ing the Blu-ray ver­sion. The combo pack comes with the DVD also so if you need to play it on a reg­u­lar DVD player, you will have that option too. Blu-ray is sim­ply a bet­ter way to watch a movie. The pic­ture is much clearer and the sound is much better.

Dis­ney will be releas­ing 14 of their most trea­sured ani­mated clas­sic titles in Blu-ray Dia­mond Edi­tions through 2016.

Snow White Blu-Ray Edi­tion Trailer

Blu-ray & DVD Combo Pack: #39.99 SRP
2-Disc DVD $29.99 SRP

Blu-ray Combo Pack Fea­tures:

Pic­ture & Sound

• First time ever in high def­i­n­i­tion 7.1 sound
• Dis­neyview – expanded view­ing experience
• All-new Music Video

Dis­ney Fam­ily Play

• What  Do You See? — Deci­pher the scam­bled image
• Mir­ror, Mir­ror on the Wall – Which princess are you most like?
• Jewel Jum­ble – test your match­ing skills

Back­stage Disney

• Snow White Returns – Newly dis­cov­ered sto­ry­boards. Was Walt plan­ning a sequel?
• Hype­r­ion Stu­dios – Explore Walt’s orig­i­nal studio
• The One That Started It All – See how Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs for­ever changed the world of movies

Clas­sic Bonus Features

• Dopey’s Wild Mine Ride Game
• “Heigh-Ho” Karaoke Sing-along
• Dis­ney through the decades

And More!

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