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Blu-ray reaches new sales milestone in Europe
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has announced that sales of the company’s Blu-ray format have recently surpassed the 250,000 mark in European territories. Meanwhile, sales in North American are nearing the one million mark with the Blu-ray launch of a series of highly anticipated blockbus...
- Posted Aug 30th 2007
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Blu-ray will win, says Panasonic
Sony’s Blu-ray Disc has gained a large amount of support from the corporate world in recent months, with companies such as Apple Inc., Dell, and Panasonic all pledging their support to the new format. Blu-ray Disc was first developed as a joint venture between Sony Corporation and Philips in 2...
- Posted Aug 30th 2007
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Cars and Ratatouille Blu-ray set for November 6th.
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment has confirmed that Disney Pixar's "Cars" Blu-ray will launch alongside the release of "Ratatouille" (DVD and Blu-ray) and "The Pixar Short Film Collection" on November 6th of this year. In case you have been living under a rock Ca...
- Posted Aug 23rd 2007
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Michael Bay & Spielberg Support Blu-Ray
The director behind films such as Bad Boys and The Transformers is disappointed by Paramount's decision to drop support for Blu-ray. On a post on Michael Bay's personal web forum titled "Paramount pisses me off!", he states: "I want people to see my movies in the best formats possibl...
- Posted Aug 22nd 2007
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20th Century Fox and MGM busting out the "Must Haves"
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment and MGM revealed an interesting Blu-ray Disc release strategy. The strategy calls for 29 new release and "must-have" catalog titles that runs through the end of the 2007. Among the many highlights of the impressive worldwide slate are six day &...
- Posted Aug 21st 2007
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Universal May Go Blu-ray
On IGN's Play Beyond podcast, the interesting issue is discussed over the format wars. Apparently, according to IGN's Play Beyond Podcast, Blu-ray is looking more enticing to Universal, a long time supporter of HD-DVD. The consideration of such a decision seems rightly based given Blu-ray's sale mo...
- Posted Aug 21st 2007
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Paramount Drops Blu-ray
Even though Blu-Ray has sold a higher amount of movies then its competitor HD-DVD, it seems that Paramount Pictures went ahead and followed up exclusively with HD-DVD. In a surprising effort, they have supposedly signed a 150 million dollar deal to specifically stop being exclusive with the Blu-Ray ...
- Posted Aug 21st 2007
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Blu-ray outsells HD DVD 2:1 in first half of 2007
PlayStation 3 owners are loving their Blu-ray players while Xbox 360 owners are loving their HD DVD add ons. Some, however, are loving Blu-ray a bit more. New data from Home Media Research shows that Blu-ray is gaining a significant lead, selling twice as many discs in the first half of this yea...
- Posted Aug 17th 2007
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Epic Vice President applauds Blu-ray
Mark Rein, VP of Epic Games, has gone on record to suggest that Blu-ray offers an extra level of breathing space over DVD when developing games. He was speaking at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival about Unreal Tournament 3, developed by Epic. The often outspoken Rein seemed to seemed to welc...
- Posted Aug 15th 2007
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300 Blu-ray Breaks High-Def Sales Records
Time Warner reported earlier today that their Helenican hit, "300" has become the fastest selling high definition movie of all time, moving more than a quarter million copies in less than a week. Time Warner noted that consumers picked up "300" on Blu-ray by almost a 2:1 margin ...
- Posted Aug 8th 2007
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Win an HD lifestyle
In association with the Center for Urban Research and Policy at Columbia University, Panasonic will be granting 30 families with HD lifestyles through a new yearly contest. Families can visit the official site here to fill out a entry form. All families that enter must write essays, take pictures, ...
- Posted Aug 5th 2007
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Europe gets independent Blu-ray production
Infodisc, a German optical disc manufacturer, has announced they will team up with Oerlikon to receive BD-ROM manufacturing equipment. In the coming days, Infodisc plans to install the hardware and become the first independent Blu-ray disc manufacturer in the Europe. Infodisc independently manuf...
- Posted Aug 5th 2007
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Queen rocks Montreal on Blu-ray
If you’re a fan of Queen then your most likely a fan of the 1981 concert in Montreal called 'We Will Rock You'. The concert has been available on 35mm prints for ages now, but it may be collecting dust in some storage bin in the attic. Well Eagle Rock Entertainment has announced that the c...
- Posted Aug 3rd 2007
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Upcoming Blu-ray releases
Blu-ray is leading the way for the next generation format for movies. The movies keep pouring in, studios are remaining loyal, and the prices are becoming more justified with improved features on discs. So what movies could you be buying for you Blu-ray player or PS3? PSU is back with the seco...
- Posted Aug 3rd 2007
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Advent Children Complete heading to Europe
Advent Children Complete heading to Europe By: Justin Pinter According Sony Pictures UK, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete (Blu-ray) will be hitting European shelves on November 5th, 2007. The "Complete" version of Advent Children contains new scenes, including one wher...
- Posted Aug 3rd 2007
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