Last week we
reported that Amazon.com has begun taking pre-orders for
Supernatural - The Complete 3rd Season, even though Warner had not announced the DVD set yet. As a result, Amazon didn't have a street date at the time, and even though rumors around the 'net specifically said to look at the last Tuesday in August for that release , the studio would not firmly commit to it when asked.
This morning Warner Home Video cleared the air by formally announcing this 4-disc set, and giving a solid release date of
September 2nd. Cost is $59.98 SRP, just as Amazon had said it would be. Despite other websites reporting "anamorphic," the episodes are actually listed in Warner's info as having a video aspect ratio of "1.85 Widescreen [4:3 Transfer]" (we're not certain, but this might be a way of indicating non-anamorphic "letterbox" widescreen; we'll try to check into this). Audio is shown as English - Dolby Surround 5.1 and Portuguese - Stereo 2.0, and subtitles are listed as English, Spanish, French and Chinese.
Extras, if any, are not mentioned so far, but we'll try to find out if there will be any bonus material included on this set. The studio provided a description of the release, and finalized high-resolution 3-D package art that matches what we've seen before. Both are below:
The yellow-eyed demon is vanquished, but at a terrible price. The battle that brought him down released hundreds of demons from Hell into an unsuspecting world. And it cost Sam his life. But a grief-stricken Dean made a deal with the Crossroad Demon: his soul for Sam's resurrection. Now Dean has just one year to live. One year to fight the unholy, the twisted, the ghoulish. One year to say farewell to Sam. And one year for Sam to search desperately for some way to save his brother. Mind-bending adventure awaits as the Winchester brothers continue their astonishing odyssey into the supernatural...and their personal odyssey into destiny.
