Vista SP2 beta due next week

"Vista SP2 beta due next week""The next update to Windows Vista will enter beta testing next week, bringing with it support for Blu-ray drives, among other enhancements.In a blog posting on Friday, Microsoft confirmed that a beta version of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 will...

Blockbuster: DVD to Blu-ray shift slower than VHS to DVD

The migration from DVD to Blu-ray isn't as quick as Blockbuster seemed to think it would be."According to a report by Home Media magazine, Thomas Casey, CFO of Blockbuster said at a recent investor conference in New York that he doesn’t think Blu-ray’s replacement of DVD...

Hulk Not Fat, Just More Hulk to Love

The movie's not even out yet but there's already a longer, more gamma-irradiated, cut of the film being planned for the inevitable blu-ray release:"During an interview with director Louis Leterrier, he mentioned that the upcoming Blu-ray release of 'The Incredible Hulk',...

Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice!

I can't believe it's been twenty years since Beetle Juice first hit the cinema.  It's got cynical dead social workers, a pre-Ed Wood Tim Burton, a pre-Renny Harlin Geena Davis (Cutthroat Island for the win!), a pre-Batman Michael Keaton, a pre-Heathers Winona Ryder, and...

Blu-Ray Coming to Aisle 10

The blu-ray push into mainstream continues." DVDPlay has announced that they will add Blu-ray titles to their popular kiosk style DVD rental machines that are present at many grocery stores this June. They will offer these titles at the same $1.49 rental fee as their DVD...

Looking for Johnny Favorite

It looks like Lionsgate will be releasing Angel Heart (imdb) on blu-ray at some point:"Lionsgate has included a new promotional insert with this month's Blu-ray debut of 'Rambo,' previewing a quartet of upcoming titles, including the first confirmation of still-unscheduled...

Kino to Begin Releasing Blu-ray this Fall

A day after Criterion announces they'll be dipping their feet in the cool, calm HD waters, Kino follows suit:" Kino International, distributor of foreign and indie films in the United States, will begin releasing Blu-ray titles this fall. Sources tell us that the first high...

The Criterion Collection Announces First Blu-ray Titles

Art house snobs everywhere will be feeling a warm glow today now that Criterion has finally jumped on board the hi-def bandwagon.  Hopefully, they'll get the rights to upgrade their back catalog.  I'd love a blu-ray versions of Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas and...

'There Will Be Blood' Blu-ray Specs, Box Art Revealed

Great news for us blu-ray owners out there.  I loved the film in the theater and I look forward to loving it again in glorious HD."Paramount's long-awaited return to Blu-ray includes a June 3 format debut for P.T. Anderson's critically-acclaimed epic, which also boasts...

Honest / insane retailer swaps old HD DVD for new Blu-ray gear

"Edion, the owner of several chains of electronics shops there has taken the unusual step of extending the hand of sympathy to anyone who bought an HD DVD player or recorder from it and is offering to exchange the useless machines for new Blu-ray devices [Japanese,...

Official: HD DVD dead and buried, format war is over

"It's official. Toshiba just made a statement saying, " it will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders." Cessation of the player and recorders are targeted for March 2008. Volume production of HD DVD disk drives for PCs and games will end in...