Blu-ray Evolution in SA

Armagedon and Tombstone on Blu-ray in Spring

Confirming previous rumors, an early announcement to retailers indicates that, on May 4, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment will release the Michael Bay sci-fi/action movie iArmageddon/i and the western iTombstone/i on Blu-ray. No information on audio/video specifications or special features is available at this time….brbra href=”http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=4106″Read full article at Blu-ray.com/a Read the original article here VN:F [1.0.9_379]please [...]

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Sherlock Holmes Blu-ray Gets Late March Date

Warner Home Video has announced iSherlock Holmes/i for release on a BD/DVD/Digital Copy combo pack on March 30. This kinetic reimagining of the character created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle outraged purists but was a box office hit. The BD will feature the already-familiar “Maximum Movie Mode” with director Guy Ritchie….brbra href=”http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=4104″Read full article [...]

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Lost Season 6 Complete Collection Blu-ray Dated

The sixth season of the TV phenomenon iLost/i doesn’t even premiere until next Tuesday, and it already has a Blu-ray release date. TV Shows on DVD (citing information posted on Ingram Entertainment’s VideoETA website) is reporting that, on August 24, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment will release both iLost: The Complete Sixth and Final Season/i [...]

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First 3D Blu-ray Player Up for Preorder

Everything with Blu-ray 3D is happening extremely fast. January isn’t even over yet and Amazon already has a compatible player up for preorder: the Samsung BD-C6900, announced mere weeks ago at CES. At the time of writing, it appears as “temporarily out of stock”, with no fixed availability date. It carries a price tag of [...]

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Restored Battleship Potemkin Blu-ray in April

Kino Video is set to release the classic of silent cinema iBattleship Potemkin/i, directed by Sergei M. Eisenstein, on April 10. For this 1080p restoration, Kino has joined the Deutsche Kinematek in association with Russia’s Goskinofilm, the British Film Institute, Bundesfilm Archive Berlin, and the Munich Film Museum. Dozens of missing shots have been replaced, [...]

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Lightning Deal: The Who at Kilburn Blu-ray for $12.99 (Sold out)

Apart from the Blu-ray player featured in today’s Deal of the Day, Amazon has now a BD-related Lightning Deal. For a very limited time, you can order iThe Who: Kilburn 1977/i for only $12.99 (56% off MSRP). The price history for this title shows that it also hit that price briefly in late December 2009. [...]

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February Advance Blu-ray Sale at Eureka

Eureka Entertainment is offering blu-ray.com readers the opportunity to buy the Masters of Cinema Blu-ray releases due out next month (F.W. Murnau’s iCity Girl/i and Fritz Lang’s iM/i) and they will ship before February 15, well ahead of their official release date. Like in the previous advance sale, the distributor is offering free shipping worldwide….brbra [...]

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The Slammin’ Salmon Blu-ray Announced

Anchor Bay Entertainment has announced the release on Blu-ray, on April 13, of ‘The Slammin’ Salmon’, the latest work of Broken Lizard, the comedy troupe behind ‘Beerfest’ and ‘Super Troopers. It stars Michael Clarke Duncan as a restaurant owner and ex boxing champ who, indebted to the Japanese mob, challenges his waiters to sell more [...]

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City of the Living Dead, Django on Blu-ray from Blue Underground

Blue Underground has announced two movies for release on Blu-ray on May 25: the horror cult movie ‘City of the Living Dead’, directed by Lucio Fulci, and the spaghetti western ‘Django’, directed by Sergio Corbucci. Both of them have received new video transfers from the original camera negative….brbra href=”http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=4099″Read full article at Blu-ray.com/a Read the original [...]

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Deal of the Day: Sylvania Blu-ray Player for $89.99

This Friday, Amazon has a BD-hardware related deal of the day in its Gold Box. Up to midnight PST, you can buy the Sylvania NB530SLX for $89.99, or 55% off MSRP. Note that this model support BonusView (Profile 1.1), but not BD-Live (Profile 2.0), as made obvious by the lack of an Ethernet port….brbra href=”http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=4098″Read [...]

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