Tag: High Definition Optical Discs (Blu-ray and HD DVD)

A lot of titles this week, but there really isn’t anything I’m super excited with. I would like to take this moment to comment on how dreadfully awful Leap Year was. Seriously, I’m not opposed to a good romantic comedy, but WOW that movie was painful to watch! On that positive note, let’s go with a classic for our pick… […]

Note:  Warner Brothers,Universal and Fox titles which  have the 30-day Netflix/Redbox rental window imposed on them are noted with ** next to the title. What a great week of options for you today, as if last week’s Avatar wasn’t a pleasantly fast surprise! A ton to choose from this week after a couple slow weeks. If you are looking for […]

Here’s an interesting article with all sorts of workarounds for bypassing trailers and warnings on your movies. Of course, if you pirate your movie (or rip them yourself) you never have to deal with any of these….just saying. The easiest way to skip (or fast forward) all the ads, warnings and trailers from the DVD movies is this — just […]

Reminder:  Warner Brothers,Universal and Fox titles which  have the 30-day rental window imposed on them I am placing ** next to the title. A healthy amount of releases this week. 44 Inch Chest is a goodie with all sorts of older British actors I quite enjoyed. Crazy Heart was a good one as well, of course it being Jeff Bridge’s […]

EDIT:  Well, not just tracking the Warner Brothers movies, I am now also noting the Universal and Fox titles which will have the 30-day rental window imposed on them by placing ** next to the title. Not a lot of releases this week after last week, guess it comes in waves. That being said, still some solid releases of classic […]

This is pretty cool, but I’d imagine a complete showstopper is not being compatible with today’s Blu-ray players. Hopefully that will be remedied by the time it hits consumer level. The new BDXL specification describes High Capacity Recordable and Rewritable discs which will write up to 128GB of content on each disc. These are write-once capacities, with the rewritable discs […]

EDIT: Continuing from last week, I am noting the Warner Brothers titles which will have the 30-day rental window imposed on them by placing ** next to the title. Not a lot of new titles this week, but I imagine all us geeks should be giddy about the Battlestar Galactica complete series being released on Blu-ray. Since I never got […]

Interesting stat here, as DVD continues to be a dominating force, although no surprise that Blu-ray continues to climb. it’s still interesting to note that for the 1st quarter fo 2010, sales were up 68.5 percent over the same quarter last year. Overall packaged media was up 3.1 percent, which isn’t saying that much since overall sales were hit pretty […]

EDIT: Beginning this week, I will start noting the Warner Brothers titles which will have the 30-day rental window imposed on them. I will place ** next to the title. I can’t remember a week with fewer overall selections of Blu-ray titles, but there are always at least one winner. I did have the unfortunate luck of watching "Housebroken" with […]

Now this is refreshing to hear. Then again, it’s slightly annoying that the initial version is going to released without any bonus features–there will be a code in the movie to access bonus features online, but still, for the price of movies these should be included even if it requires additional discs IMO. HomeMediaMag In addition to those pesky trailers […]