About That New & Improved STTOS Shatner
August 31, 2006
You know, we keed, we keed Bill (Hunt, not Shat), but we’re following up on his Star Trek: The Original Series being remastered article on “The Bits.” He doesn’t write us, doesn’t return our calls. Sob! Here’s much more details, including pictures, from TV Guide. No news on a DVD release, but they will be on-air shortly, on Sept 16th to be exact…
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1996’s DVD Issues Foreshadowed HD Discs
August 31, 2006
Our good friends over at Twice revisit the launch of the Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) format — and the roadmap to our current format war ™.
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Holy Crap! Third Format to Enter the Format Wars ™
August 31, 2006
We’re crying, we can’t think of anything to write. What kind of sick and demented world do we live it? Damn you, damn you all to hellll!
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Can Blu-ray Heat Up Hollywood Again?
August 31, 2006
The LA Times delves into the whole format war ™. However, as stars (see Tom Cruise) and studios (see Paramount) are struggling, perhaps high-def DVD will save Hollywood.
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From Warner Bros.: European Launch of Blu-ray
August 31, 2006
Warner Home Video, which distributes the largest film library of any studio, announced today at IFA 2006 the company’s plans to release more than 10 high definition Blu-ray Disc titles in European markets. These countries include France , Germany , Spain and the UK . The initial films are expected to be available in late 2006 and represent a combination of recent hits and catalog favorites.
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Short Clicks: DVD Kibbles and Bits
August 31, 2006
Wha? DVD does some good? Report: DVD to help pupils succeed
August 31, 2006
And somehow this doesn’t involve porn? Oh, it’s a British thing. Now i get it…
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The Suki Hollywood Second: Peter
August 31, 2006
Welcome to the Suki Hollywood Second. Your quickest news source from the entertainment capital. Straight from Hollywood, California, here’s Suki:
“Hey dumbass, Peter Jackson lost 350lbs on the Skull Island Diet…”
And that has been your Suki Hollywood Second.
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
August 31, 2006
The Fake Life blog has a rundown of this week’s fresh DVDs, including Peter Jackson’s latest greatest super-duper edition of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Theatrical and Extended Limited Edition). Boy, that fatboy is sure milking the Tolkien teet. After the dud-a-rama King Kong, he better over-deliver on his next film (and make sure it isn’t 4 hours long zzz). Or maybe he can remake Meet the Feebles with a 200 million dollar budget…
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Lost Spoilers: Hanso Exposed Orientation Film
August 31, 2006
Video Snack ™ after the jump…
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The Sentinel
August 30, 2006
Alexander here. Our good friend Andrew James of MoviePatron.com has filed the DVD review of the Michael Douglas thriller The Sentinel. Is the DVD Best Buy worthy or just another add to the Netflix queue? Take it away, Andrew…
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Star Trek vs. The Simpsons
August 30, 2006
Video Snack ™ after the jump…
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Gomer Pyle Coming to DVD, Film at 11.
August 30, 2006
Bill has been saving up this headline for just the right moment…
“Surprise, surprise, surprise! - Gomer, Kev. Smith 2 & TV Mission!”
Warner Shares The Format War ™ Love
August 30, 2006
Warner Bros., you manly men. Who needs a format war ™, you say? You’re sharin’ the love, mixin’ it up. Over at the Man Room, The Bros. are releasing 10 new high-def titles…
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Arrested Development - Season 3
August 30, 2006
Great going, Fox. You only cancelled one of the sharpest shows on TV. This is right up there with Freaks and Geeks, Action, Undeclared, Futurama — classic bad network mistakes (However, I never got Family Guy — that could’ve stayed cancelled). Our friends at Monster and Critics review the latest, and sob final, season of Arrested Development, fresh on DVD…
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Short Clicks: Blu-ray Goodness/Badness
August 30, 2006
Mori’s DVD Shelf is a rumblin’….
August 30, 2006
Uh oh, hear that? Over at Ain’t It Cool News, Mori’s DVD shelf is shakin’ and rumblin’. At “The Lab,” he spins the freshest DVDs, including South Park Season 8, Arrested Development Season 3 and my newly discovered favorite — MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000!
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Blu-ray and HD-DVD to freeze competition until 2007 due to laser diode shortage
August 30, 2006
Breaking news from DigiTimes…Will the format war ™ actually begin? Especially with the impending Blu-ray PS3, there’s not enough blue lazers to go around…New HD-DVD and Blu-ray models in 2007 might be delayed. Consumers still confused and buying standard DVDs….
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Short Clicks: Sony and Celebs In Trouble
August 30, 2006
DVD Reviewers Needed!
August 29, 2006
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Sony: At least two 50GB Blu-ray releases by the end of 2006
August 29, 2006
Short Stuff: Sony plans 50GB Blu-ray releases. First titles unlikely to use BD-Java; studios approach interactivity slowly.
Source: Video Business
The New DVDs are Here, the New DVDs are Here!
August 29, 2006
It’s Big Big DVD Tuesday. And you know what that mean? Fresh DVDs! Drive on down to Best Buy, click on over to Amazon.com, and get the latest releases for Tuesday, August 29nd. Crap, the summer is officially over. We’ll it’s a weak week for DVD — lotta TV shows. Our recommended DVDs of the week include Arrested Development - Season 3, The Tick Vs. Season One, Pretty in Pink (Everything’s Duckie Edition), Akeelah and the Bee, South Park - The Complete Eighth Season, and the latest ultimate final 5th dip version of Lord of the Rings.
Our better yet, see our new Staff Picks for the Week!
New Zealander gets 2 years for DVD piracy
August 29, 2006
Goddam those crazy New Zealanders! When they’re not working on some crazy 4 hour Peter Jackson epic, they’re off pirating DVDs. Can’t blame them, what the hell else is there to do in New Zealand? Oh yeah, the countryside is beautiful and all that, blah blah blah, but that wears off after a week of gawking at sheep. Then, your mind drifts away to other things…
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Manderlay
August 29, 2006
Our good friends over at BlogCritics review the DVD of Von Trier’s Manderlay. We’re not (I’m not) smart enough to understand this movie or the filmmaker. I guess its part of a trilogy, and Bryce Dallas Howard had replaced Nicole Kidman — who was in Dogville. My head already hurts. And the DVD has zip features…
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Uh oh, Superman is Lurking around Old Man Hunt’s Rumor Mill…
August 29, 2006
Supposedly, according to Digital Bits, Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns is landing on DVD November 28th, on all formats — standard DVD, Blu-ray and HD-DVD. We here at the Newsroom dug Supes, compared to the craptastic X3. Our source couldn’t confirm the two high-def versions, so take this with a grain o’ salt. Also, Old Man Hunt rambles on about the various Star Trek tv series in high-def or something…
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