So much cooler than the iPad.

Paramount has announced that Minority Report — the Steven Spielberg-directed, Tom Cruise-driven sci-fi thriller — will be available on Blu-ray on April 20th.

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Posted by Joel Goodbody on 29/01/10 in Articles, and tagged with minority report, paramount, sci-fi, steven spielberg, tom cruise.
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Better than a Pink Floyd album!

It’s a big ball of cheese in the sky.

What would happen, wondered first-time feature director Duncan Jones, if Aretha Franklin lived on it? She’d probably eat it all, he quickly concluded. So he put Sam Rockwell up there instead. You know, just to see what would happen.

As it turns out, the result was really quite something.

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Posted by Joe Grace on 22/01/10 in Reviews, and tagged with duncan jones, kevin space, moon, moon blu-ray review, sam rockwell, sci-fi.
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3D glasses not included

CES — the largest consumer electronics tradeshow in the world — has kicked off its 2010 edition and 3D seems to be one the hottest technologies on the floor.

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Posted by Joel Goodbody on 07/01/10 in Articles, and tagged with 3D, blu-ray players, ces, panasonic, samsung, sony, toshiba.
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Muggles not allowed.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the second to last installment in the Harry Potter films, released earlier this year to the delight of its age-spanning fan base.

The Blu-ray, released just last month, is the latest in a series of solid, if not always perfect, Blu-ray discs in terms of video and audio quality. How does this latest installment shape up?

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Posted by Nick Beckner on 05/01/10 in Reviews, and tagged with .
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3D is going to make 2D look like 1D.

Not content with his $232 million box-office haul from over the weekend, director James Cameron is already thinking ahead to the inevitable Blu-ray release for Avatar.

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Posted by Will Federman on 21/12/09 in News, and tagged with avatar blu-ray, blu-ray 3d, James Cameron.
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Matt Damon is Jason Bourne in The Bourne Mid-Life Crisis.

Warner Home Video announced that Steven Soderbergh’s The Informant!, the political comedy starring Matt Damon, will be available on Blu-ray this February 23rd in all Region 1 territories.

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Posted by Will Federman on in Articles, and tagged with matt damon, steven soderbergh, the informant! blu-ray, warner home video.
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Balloons not included.

Another year, another offering from Pixar beloved by critics and adults and kids and whoever else has a functional heart and brain.

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Posted by Joel Goodbody on in Reviews, and tagged with balloons, disney, pixar, up blu-ray review.
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The big red empire is becoming a digital trend setter...

Netflix is out to own your television.

The Internet rental service has been gradually taking over set-top boxes in living rooms throughout America, incorporating its streaming content solution into any device willing and able.

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Posted by Will Federman on 18/12/09 in Features, and tagged with blu-ray disc association, netflix, ps3 blu-ray, streaming video.
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What 3D will look like on your 2D television without 3D glasses.

After months of speculation, and various manufacturers demonstrating their individual 3D solutions, the Blu-ray Disc Association settled on official specs for the 3D Blu-ray format.

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Posted by Will Federman on in Articles, and tagged with 3d blu-ray, blu-ray 3-d, ces, nvidia, sony.
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The biggest waste of three discs ever.

It’s a sad state of affairs when the McG-helmed Terminator sequel will perhaps be best remembered for Christian Bale’s profanity laden on-set tirade rather than for the film itself.

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Posted by Will Federman on in Reviews, and tagged with cameron, christian bale, maximum movie mode, mcg, terminator salvation blu-ray.
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