I wish Disney would also release more of their films on Blu ray.
As good as The Princess and the Frog is, why aren't Alice In Wonderland (1950), Bedknobs and Broomsticks, and other older films out on Blu ray???
The slow transition to Hi Def is maddening in some ways.
Studios are really being picky about which old films get the Hi Def nod.
There's more on The Digital Bits at
http://www.thedigitalbits.com/#042110b about the situation...
Basically, sluggish sales are dictating releases on Blu ray.
(I blame this on the oversaturation of the DVD market with re-releases and horrible new product. It really has a lot less to do with Blu ray which is demonstrably better when done right... And NO, this isn't like the first two years of DVD when most of the DVDs were being mastered from the same tapes used for previous VHS/laserdisc releases. Hi Def masters have been around for years and many DVDs have been mastered from them... It's just that Blu ray is the first widespread format that can really show off the visual strength of Hi Def masters.
(Oversaturation is also part of what's driving the big 3-D push IMHO. It's a gimmick being tried to raise sales at both the movie theaters and home video. 3-D is just not going to take off for a variety of reasons besides the hardware costs. It's a horrible process, it costs too much to do films this way for so little benefit, and ultimately for a good percentage of consumers they're not going to jump on board for health reasons... Again, it's about content. If the stories and characters aren't there, people will stay away. Enough with the remakes already!!!)
The major home video studios just do NOT want to risk an already tepid market by doing a bunch of "old film" releases (anything over 5 minutes old) on Blu ray. We're already seeing a lot of films less than 1 year old on the format being heavily discounted. I've seen films out on Blu ray for maybe 8 months getting sold for under $10 now!
Anyhow, there's that and a lot of negative reviews on Blu rays that are just helping to depress things a bit.
I, for one, do not care for Disney's double-dipping on inventory on DVD, either.
And I agree 100% with Ben on the extras on the re-releases... They're just not very exciting at all.
You would think with the standards set by the early Platinum DVD releases and Toy Story Toy Box Set (DVD, a MUCH better release than the Toy Story Blu rays) that Disney Home Video would aim higher.
The current (re-)releases are really mediocre.