Yesterday we
let you know that the package art had apparently changed for
Smallville - The Complete 8th Season, coming to DVD and Blu-ray Disc on
August 25th. The pre-order listing at Amazon.com was showing a different box design, but only for the Blu-ray version. And we were able to get that same image, from another angle, from the studio's press site. But why the change for Blu-ray, and not for the DVD version? We had asked our studio contacts about it, but they hadn't been able to reply to us right away.
Today, however, we've gotten our answers! The studio informs us that the original artwork (of Clark and Lois shown inside the offices of
The Daily Planet) was the correct artwork for general retail release. What had been briefly posted at Amazon, and has now been fixed (thanks to our catch), is artwork that will be meant to be exclusively available at one retailer (not Amazon; possibly it is Best Buy). Whenever the retailer in question advertises it, that will be available on the standard DVD release as well as the high-def Blu-ray version.
If you click on the button link below, you'll see that the Amazon listings are now showing the proper artwork for both versions of
Smallville - The Complete 8th Season. We've got the proper "general release" artwork for the DVD and Blu-ray versions once again below, and at the bottom we give you a last look at the alternate version in the special case:
