A Star Is Born 2.0
Warner Bros. Motion Picture Imaging is restoring George Cukor’s 1954 “A Star Is Born” in 6K resolution. The film, starring Judy Garland and James Mason, is believed to be the first restoration project where the scanning, restoration work and mastering will be completed at that resolution. Digital film restoration is most commonly accomplished
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Criterion Collection Going Blu-Ray!
When it comes to the fine art of presenting movies on discs, Criterion’s treatment of films, in quality and extras, finds itself unparalleled. And that’s why it is amazingly good news that they’re finally going Blu-ray. What’s even cooler is that they’re not going to charge
Media sales flat in 2007
The total haul for the 12-month period — rental dollars from movie theaters, TV fees and video/DVD receipts returning to the six major companies — came to $42.9 billion, slightly down from 2006’s $43 billion. The U.S. market slipped from 2006’s $24.5 billion to $22.7 billion,
Blu-ray fumbles after winning format wars
Hot on the heels of last week’s report from ABI Research noting that many consumers may not see the picture quality difference between Blu-ray and standard DVDs comes the latest Blu-ray sales figures from NPD Group. And they’re not pretty. According to NPD, sales of Blu-ray standalone players plummeted
Is Blu-ray a Placeholder Format?
According to Laurie Fincham, Chief Scientist at THX, Blu-ray doesn’t have much of a future. In fact, she was quoted as saying that “I think it’s too late for Blu-ray,” in a recent interview with Home Cinema Choice Magazine. The reason? She thinks that consumers are waiting for
Now, if you DO want Blu-ray 2.0 to work, you prolly need to buy one of these just announced Sony Blu-ray Players
Sony’s first Blu-ray disc player that can download bonus materials like trailers and games from the Internet will debut this summer, the company announced Tuesday. The BDP-S350 player Sony plans to introduce this summer for “about $400″ will be the company’s first to feature an
More details on Blu-ray 2.0, aka BD-Live, aka it won’t work on your current Blu-ray player unless you have a PS3
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is targeting April 8 as the date it will release its first batch of Blu-ray Disc titles that can be connected to the Internet for more bonus materials and features. The musical spoof “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story” and the Arnold Schwarzenegger sci-fi thriller
PS3 firmware update supports Blu-ray 2.0 BD-Live
Sony announced Thursday plans to release new firmware for its PlayStation 3 video game console. The new update will expose new capabilities in the PS3’s Blu-ray Disc player. The updated firmware enables Blu-ray Disc Profile 2.0, or BD-Live, to be supported on the PS3. BD-Live enables Blu-ray Disc makers
Blu-ray Cracked
Late last year, disc-copying software maker SlySoft claimed they cracked the BD+ DRM protection in Blu-ray discs. They weren’t kidding. The newest version of AnyDVD HD strips Blu-ray discs of BD+, allowing you to copy even the most locked-up Blu-ray discs (*cough*Fox*cough*) to your heart’s
Nice move, Best Buy
Electronics retailer Best Buy Co. said Wednesday it will give gift cards to customers that bought HD-DVD players or HD-DVD attachments from its U.S. stores as the format goes away in favor of the Blu-ray standard. Via CNN