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Final 3-D Blu-ray Specification Announced
Posted December 17, 2009 05:48 AM by Juan Calonge
The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) today announced the finalization and release of the “Blu-ray 3D™” specification. It leverages the technical advantages of the BD format to deliver “unmatched picture quality” as well as uniformity and compatibility across the full range of Blu-ray 3D products, both hardware and software. The specification is also designed to allow the PS3 to play back Blu-ray 3D content in 3-D.
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Blu-ray Sales, December 7-13: Potter Enchants Charts
Posted December 17, 2009 04:51 AM by Juan Calonge
Warner's 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince' easily won the week for Blu-ray Sales during the week ended December 13, according to Nielsen VideoScan. Universal's 'Public Enemies' got second place. The other major new theatrical release of the week, Sony's 'Julie & Julia', only managed number 10 of the charts.
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Best Buy To Sell Family Guy Lunchbox Blu-ray Set
Posted December 17, 2009 01:50 PM by Josh Dreuth
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has announced that beginning on December 22nd, Best Buy will offer an exclusive 'Family Guy: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side Blu-ray Disc Collector's Set'. The set will feature the upcoming Blu-ray release of the film (also being released on December 22nd) and a Family Guy t-shirt housed in a Lucas-approved Family Guy lunchbox modeled after the original 'Return of the Jedi' lunchbox from the 1980's.
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Lightning Deal: Kevin Smith Blu-ray Box Set for $38.99 (Sold Out)
Posted December 17, 2009 01:01 PM by Juan Calonge
Amazon has an interesting BD-related "lightning deal" going on now: for a
very limited time, you can buy the Kevin Smith Box Set for only $38.99 (56%
off MSRP). This offer expires today at 1 p.m. PST, or when stock runs out. The
price history for this title shows that the cheapest it has been is $53.49. Update: all discounts have been claimed.
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Amelia Blu-ray Gets Detailed
Posted December 17, 2009 08:06 AM by Josh Dreuth
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has announced the technical specs and special features for the upcoming Blu-ray release of 'Amelia', which is scheduled for released on February 2nd. For this release, video will be presented in 1080p AVC accompanied by a 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack.
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Image Entertainment May File for Chapter 11
Posted December 17, 2009 06:47 AM by Juan Calonge
Image Entertainment said it may have to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after defaulting on a $4m payment on a senior secured note that was due on December 14. “The company does not currently have the funds, or access the funds, necessary to repay all of its outstanding obligations to the Holder, Wachovia, Arvato and its other creditors,” said Image Entertainment in a statement. Image also said it was “exploring strategic alternatives”.
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Nurse Jackie Season One Blu-ray Detailed
Posted December 17, 2009 06:36 AM by Juan Calonge
Lionsgate Home Entertainment has revealed the full technical details and special features for 'Nurse Jackie: Season One', which had been preannounced a couple weeks ago (see blu-ray.com, November 29). It will be presented in 1.78:1 1080p video with a 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack, and English and Spanish subtitles.
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Wrong Side of Town Blu-ray Announced
Posted December 17, 2009 06:25 AM by Juan Calonge
Lionsgate Home Entertainment has announced and detailed 'Wrong Side of Town', starring WWE veterans David Bautista, Rob Van Dam and Nelson Frazier Jr. This action movie, about a former Navy Seal fighting a criminal gang, will hit store shelves on February 23, 2010 and will be presented in 1080p video with a 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack.
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Sharpe Movies Announced on Blu-ray
Posted December 17, 2009 05:34 AM by Juan Calonge
BBC Home Entertainment, in conjunction with Warner Home Video, has announced two titles for release on Blu-ray on April 6, 2010: 'Sharpe's Challenge' and 'Sharpe's Peril', based on two books from a series of adventure novels set around the time of the Napoleonic wars and starring Sean Bean. They had been already released in the UK in April 2009.
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National Geographic Distribution Goes to Vivendi
Posted December 17, 2009 05:02 AM by Juan Calonge
Vivendi Entertainment has entered an agreement to exclusively distribute National Geographic TV product in North America. The exclusive multiyear deal gives Vivendi the rights to distribute product from National Geographic Channel and PBS. Up to now, National Geographic titles had been distributed by Warner Home Video.
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Blu-ray/DVD Combos for All Warner New Releases
Posted December 17, 2009 04:34 AM by Juan Calonge
Warner Home Video has announced that, beginning in the first quarter of 2010, it will be releasing its entire theatrical new release slate as Blu-ray combo packs, containing a Blu-ray Disc, a standard-definition DVD and a Digital Copy of the film. Other studios had been including DVDs with new Blu-ray releases before, but only on select titles.
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Warner Launches Blu-ray Double Features
Posted December 17, 2009 04:30 AM by Juan Calonge
Beginning February 23, Warner Home Video is launching a line of Blu-ray double features consisting of "a pair of well-matched catalog hits spanning multiple genres" and aggressively priced at $24.98 (SRP). The first wave will include: 'Dirty Harry/Magnum Force'; 'Analyze This/Analyze That'; 'Presumed Innocent/Frantic'; 'Miss Congeniality/Miss Congeniality 2'; and 'Grumpy Old Men/Grumpier Old Men'.
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Blu-ray Announced for The Stoning of Soraya M.
Posted December 16, 2009 02:15 PM by Josh Dreuth
Lionsgate Home Entertainment has announced that they will bring 'The Stoning of Soraya M.' to Blu-ray on March 9th. From the producers of 'The Passion of the Christ', this film tells the true story of an Iranian woman who refused to get a divorce so her husband could marry a younger woman, and was stoned under false accusations of adultery.
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Alice Announced for Blu-ray
Posted December 16, 2009 02:08 PM by Josh Dreuth
Lionsgate Home Entertainment has announced that they will bring the Syfy miniseries 'Alice' to Blu-ray on March 2nd to coincide with the theatrical release of Tim Burton's 'Alice in Wonderland'. Technical specs have not been announced at this time, though you can expect to see a high definition AVC video presentation for this release.
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Technicolor and Testronic Labs Team for Blu-ray Testing
Posted December 16, 2009 01:06 PM by Josh Dreuth
Technicolor Business Group (a leader in Blu-ray Disc authoring and replication) and Testronic Labs (a prominent Blu-ray Disc testing center) have announced that they have partnered to offer comprehensive Blu-ray Disc testing services. The companies hope that by combining their service the time required to get a Blu-ray Disc into production will be significantly reduced.
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Blockbuster to Mail Out-of-Stock Movies to Store Customers
Posted December 16, 2009 10:10 AM by Juan Calonge
Blockbuster Inc. today launched Blockbuster Direct Access, a new service that gives store customers access to the "more than 95,000 titles" carried in the company's distribution centers. If a title is out of stock or not carried in an individual participating store, staff can search available inventory at nearby distribution centers and arrange for that title to be mailed directly to the customer, usually within three postal days. Customers do not have to be subscribers of Blockbuster Online to use the service.
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Connected Blu-ray Players to Supplant Set-top Boxes
Posted December 16, 2009 08:28 AM by Juan Calonge
New research from The Diffusion Group indicates the market for Web-based set-top devices will represent just 3% of all Web-enabled CE devices purchased over the next five years. CE manufacturers and Hollywood studios will push consumers toward adopting connected Blu-ray players and video game consoles such as the PS3 and the Xbox 360.
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Major Titles Rumored for Blu-ray in 2010 and Beyond
Posted December 16, 2009 06:11 AM by Juan Calonge
AV site The Digital Bits has put up a post on its "Rumor Mill" site listing the titles that its "industry sources" are hinting as likely candidates for release on Blu-ray in the next couple of years, including more Spielberg, James Cameron and a new hope for 'Star Wars' – but only in the longer term.
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Feltenstein: WB Spent $6 Million Restoring Classics for Blu-ray
Posted December 15, 2009 04:57 PM by Juan Calonge
In a recent interview, George Feltenstein, senior vice president for theatrical catalog marketing at Warner Home Video, has stated that the studio spent "more than six million dollars" to bring 'Woodstock,' 'The Wizard of Oz,' 'North by Northwest' and 'Gone with the Wind' to Blu-ray. "We're biting the bullet and bringing classics to Blu-ray so we can broaden the base."
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Eureka Gets Label of the Year Award in UK
Posted December 15, 2009 02:46 PM by Juan Calonge
Eureka Entertainment's Masters of Cinema series has been chosen as the ‘Label of the Year' in the latest February 2010 edition of the British AV magazine Home Cinema Choice. The Masters of Cinema release of F.W. Murnau's 'Sunrise' was also chosen as ‘Best Remastering' for its Blu-ray version released in September 2009.
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Broadcom Announces Single-die Blu-ray Chip, 3-D Support
Posted December 15, 2009 02:15 PM by Juan Calonge
Semiconductor maker Broadcom Corporation announced today the first "true single-die" Blu-ray Disc chip: The BCM7630 combines optical front-end and back-end video decoding and display technologies in a single-die solution. It also supports Netflix 2.0, Pandora Internet Radio, Vudu and CinemaNow movie services and other streaming applications, as well as Wi-Fi and BlueTooth. Also announced today is the BCM7632, which adds support for the playback of 3-D Blu-ray movies in stereoscopic full 1080p.
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Highlander Season 1 Blu-ray Out Now, Seasons 2 & 3 Coming Soon
Posted December 15, 2009 01:39 PM by Juan Calonge
Just as quietly as it was –repeatedly– delayed, the Blu-ray edition of 'Highlander: Season 1' is suddenly available to buy at the Legendary Heroes website. TV Shows on DVD is reporting that Davis-Panzer is already working on seasons 2 and 3 of the series, which will be released simultaneously in Spring 2010 and will be "loaded with extras."
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