Close Encounters of the Third Kind Revealed

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is planning to release Steven Spielberg's 1977 sci-fi classic 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' for Blu-ray on November 13th. This 30th Anniversary edition will feature three cuts of the film - the 1977 original cut, the 1980 special edition cut, and the 1998 director's cut. Plus, only available on Blu-ray, a storyboard-to-scene comparison to the original 1977 'Watch the Skies' featurette. This will mark the first time that a Steven Spielberg film is released in high definition. No official specs have been released at this time, but expect an AVC video encode and PCM (or possibly TrueHD) audio encoding. With the three versions presumably on one disc, and the main feature running well over 2 hours, it is also safe to presume that this title will take advantage of seamless branching.