Blu-ray Evolution in SA

Pink Panther Sequel Gets Blu-ray Date

In an early announcement to retailers, MGM Home Entertainment in conjunction with 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has revealed that they will bring ‘Pink Panther 2′ to Blu-ray on June 23rd, day-and-date with the DVD release. Technical specs have not been released at this time, but you can expect a 1080p video presentation accompanied by [...]

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Dragon’s Lair 2 Announced for Blu-ray

Digital Leisure has announced that they will bring the sequel ‘Dragon’s Lair II: Time Warp’ to Blu-ray on June 2nd. You play the role of Dirk the Daring as he tries to save Princess Daphne once again. The legendary game (originally released on LaserDisc) has been mediculously restored via a frame-by-frame restoration and remastered in [...]

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New Blu-ray.com Features: New Covers, Top User Reviewers

Blu-ray.com is constantly looking for ways to make this site more and more informative and useful. Now our administrators have added two new features: a “New Covers” section that displays the Blu-ray covers which have been added recently to the site database, and a “Top User Reviewers” section ranking those community members whose reviews are [...]

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Che Blu-ray Announced in the UK, Extras Listed

Optimum Home Entertainment has announced that they will release both parts of Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Che’ for Blu-ray in the UK on June 29, day-and-date with the DVD release, separately or in a two-disc box set. No technical specs have been announced at this time, though you can expect to see an AVC video encode [...]

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Oppo BDP-83 Blu-ray Player Launches, by Invitation Only

One of the most anticipated hardware releases in Blu-ray history is finally going to materialize. After a protracted beta-testing and early-adopter sale program, Oppo Digital is releasing the BDP-83 to the general public – or at least, those in the public that had emailed the company showing interest in the player. The first units will [...]

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New BD-Live Application Turns Blu-ray Players into VOD Boxes

Enteractive, a German Blu-ray production studio, demonstrated for the first time at the Media-Tech fair in Frankfurt its video-on-demand service ‘Videociety’ – a digital pay-per-view video delivery service that, through novel use of Java software, lets users rent movies via any Blu-ray player, provided it supports BD-Live. Official product launch is expected for later in [...]

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SMPTE Makes Blu-ray Mandatory for 3-D

The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) has released the initial requirements for creation of a 3-D standard, and one of the requirements is that it works as part of the Blu-ray format. The selected standard will presumably be used by the entire media industry, stretching from movies to television and even mobile video…. Read full article at [...]

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Vote for the Next Criterion Blu-ray Release

Criterion Collection home video releases are some of the most coveted in the entire industry, so it was no shock that when the company began releasing Blu-rays, fans started begging for their favorites to get the high definition treatment. Now, they have the chance. Criterion has teamed up with Amazon to let fans vote for [...]

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Talento de Barrio Gets Top Latino Blu-ray Award

Maya Home Entertainment’s Blu-ray release of ‘Talento de Barrio’ won for Best Blu-ray Disc at the fifth annual Latino DVD Awards yesterday, held at the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, CA. Similar to other awards hosted by Home Media Magazine, the winners are voted on by a panel of judges comprised of [...]

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Warner: Free Digital Copies for Blu-ray; Pay-to-Play with DVD

Warner Home Video has revealed that, starting with the upcoming release of the 2009 remake of ‘Friday the 13th’, they will begin charging DVD customers $1.99 to gain access to a digital copy of the film, while providing them free as part of the Blu-ray release. While this has no impact on Warner’s current Blu-ray [...]

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