Fireproof & Facing The Giants - On Blu-ray Sept. 8th
For those of you who are subscribed to any of the Provident Films subscription lists, you received an email recently that included this at the bottom:
Coming Soon to Blu-ray Disc
This September, you will be able to see FIREPROOF and Facing the Giants in a way you’ve never been able to before: on Blu-ray Disc! That means you can soon bring home the high-quality version of these high-impact stories!
The Blu-ray versions of both FIREPROOF and Facing the Giants will be available wherever you purchase DVDs, including your favorite Christian retailer, beginning September 8.
That’s a pretty exciting deal considering both the films have been a smash on DVD given their market. I’m looking forward to buying both and reviewing them when the time comes. I’m curious to see how the films hold up on a 1080HD Blu-ray disc. Facing the Giants was filmed in DVCPROHD on the Panasonic Varicam in 720p so it will be a bit softer. Fireproof was also shot on the Varicam but was captured as they shot via the HDSDI to a Mac converting all the footage directly to 1080p Prores. That means the film while from a 720p source, it’s of a much greater source quality than that of Giants. For those of you who didn’t notice, the Fireproof DVD was given a horrible bitrate on the film itself causing all kinds of artifacting and such in the image, especially in the action sequences. The bonus features had a higher bitrate than the film overall, so hopefully the BR Disc redeems the image quality that was lacking on the DVD.
