The fine folks at Fox Home Video (can you tell they sent me a nice little package this weekend) have a block buster Blu-ray Tuesday this week releasing several of their big Sci-fi titles. Including one of my favorite – cheesy films of all time Independence Day. When I first bought my 60 inch HDTV […]
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Gattica is on Blu-ray today!
The Sci-Fi Classic Gattaca: Special Edition is coming to DVD and Blu-ray this week. Watch some clippage and go out and pick this up. Confidently conceived and brilliantly executed, Gattaca had a somewhat low profile release in 1997, but audiences and critics hailed the film’s originality. It’s since been recognized as one of the most […]
Justice League: New Frontier
After spending this weekend fighting with my new Macbook (contrary to what the commercials say, it doesn’t “just work.” But I’ll save my tales of Apple woe until later in the week. I decided to download and watch Warner Home Video’s latest direct to video animated fair Justice League: New Frontier. I downloaded it on […]
Microsoft kills HD-DVD Drive
In a move that surprises no one, Microsoft has officially put an end to it’s HD-DVD add-on drive. I actually bought one of these last summer from Gamestop as an impulse buy and immediately regretted my decision but couldn’t take it back because Gamestop draconian return policy. Word of advice – NEVER shop there. […]
Juno Comes to Blu-Ray
My favorite movie from last year Juno is coming to DVD and Blu-Ray on March 19. The cool thing is, it’ll include Fox’s cool new Digital Copy thing – that will let you copy the movie to your iPod. Directed by Jason Reitman (Thank You For Smoking) and featuring an all-star ensemble cast, the Juno […]
Blu-Ray Wins – It’s Official!
Toshiba officially threw in the towel today. It’s, there’s nothing left but the crying. I did my rant this weekend about the pending death of HD-DVD. I think the format war has ended too soon, but hey, what can you do? Several people emailed me and said that my post was some anti-Sony screed and […]
Toshiba set to give up on HD-DVD and the Consumers Lose Again!
Toshiba set to give up on HD-DVD and the Consumers Lose Again!
High-Definition – Great Week for New Blu-Ray DVDs
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Fox Announces 1st Quarter Blu-Ray Titles
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (TCFHE) today confirmed the arrival of six fan favorite “must have” Blu-ray Disc catalog titles available in the first quarter of 2008. Highlights include the long-awaited BD debuts of ICE AGE (March 4), featuring everyone’s favorite sub-zero heroes in a daring quest to return a human baby to its tribe; […]
Sunshine – Blu-Ray Picture in Picture is Here
The folks at Fox Home Video are one of the first studios to come out with a Blu-Ray disk that supports the new 1.1 (or picture in picture) spec. One of the things that distinguished HD-DVD was it’s copious use of picture in picture for extra features. For instance on the 300 HD-DVD you could […]
Watch clips from Dragon Wars, now on Blu-Ray!
We did a lot on this film last year and it’s a shame it didn’t do better, but it’s now available on Blu-Ray. Check out these clips.