Batman Beyond: The Complete Series will be released on BluRay on October 28th, 2019.
https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=25441Before you get too excited after how awesome the restoration work on Batman: TAS was, there is a catch this time:
"Of the 52 original Batman Beyond episodes, 41 have been fully-remastered from either their original 35mm film source or the uncommon format "OCND," the original camera negative digital (a digital scan of original negative). Lines and resolution have been enhanced, and dust and dirt have been removed – however, cell dirt remains to not disturb the original picture. Included in the remastering was the removal of grain, resulting in enhanced colors. The remastering process does cause a slight aspect ratio change (approximately 3% loss of screen image).
Due to time-worn irreparable damage, the remaining 11 episodes were "Smart Rezzed" from standard definition Digibeta video. The process provides for significant enhanced resolution and improvement of the original source material in converting from standard to high definition, though it does sacrifice horizontal lines for clearer image and color representation. While still a marked improvement over the original video, viewers will notice a slight difference between the Remastered and the Up-Rezzed final footage. The 11 affected episodes are: "Eyewitness," "Final Cut," "The Last Resort," "Armory," "Sneak Peek," "The Eggbaby," "Zeta," "Plague," "April Moon," "Sentries of the Lost Cosmos" and "Speak No Evil." "
So yeah, it's disappointing that half of season 2 will be an upres due to WB not taking care of their film negatives properly, but I'm thrilled to see Batman Beyond get the BluRay restoration it really needed. Those DVDs looked terrible.
The fact that they skipped Superman and went straight to Batman Beyond makes me think that Superman either had more substantial restoration work needed...or they lost even more of the assets than they did of Batman Beyond.