Tweet The Digital Entertainment Group (DEG) has released its first report of 2013 and Blu-ray’s popularity has seen a year-on-year boost. The DEG found that Blu-ray sales were 28.5% higher in the first quarter of this year than a year ago, with sales rising to $2.1 billion. Within the Blu-ray Disc category, the sales of new films [...]
Tweet Every now and then we like to revisit the topic of what makes Blu-ray so good and why you should choose it as your storage format of choice, this will help those that are less familiar and may provide a bit of a refresh for those ahead of the game. Let’s start with the [...]
Tweet Lucasfilm and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment announced this week that the Star Wars Trilogy collections will be launched in Limited Edition Blu-ray Steelbook editions in the UK in April. Telling the story of the Jedi, the evil Sith, robots and aliens inhabiting a fictional galaxy, Star Wars is arguably the biggest film franchise [...]
Tweet At last week’s CES show, Sony announced a series of “Mastered in 4K” Blu-ray titles that will be optimised for the new wave of 4K Ultra HD TVs that manufacturers hope to release later this year. Titles including The Amazing Spider-Man, Total Recall, The Karate Kid, Battle: Los Angeles and The Other Guys will [...]
Tweet Tim Burton’s reworking of the classic horror story Frankenstein is to be released on Blu-ray on 8th January. Frankenweenie depicts the story of an eleven year old boy trying to reanimate his beloved dog Sparky. The Blu-ray version of Frankenweenie is sensitively shot in black and white to pay homage to the classic horror [...]
Tweet Back in June we bought you the news that the 25th Anniversary of Top Gun would be released on Blu-ray. Fans of the aviation classic have another reason to celebrate as it’s also just been announced that Top Gun will be getting a Blu-ray 3D makeover too. To date, a European release for the [...]
Tweet Back in June we brought you news of a Blu-ray Virtual Roundtable discussion which gave the inside scoop on the latest developments on the format. Back for a sixth time, the latest Virtual Roundtable discussion sees Victor Matsuda, chair of the Blu-ray Disc Association’s Global Promotions Committee, teaming up with Ain’t It Cool News [...]
Tweet For this week’s Blu-ray Monday, we’re giving you the chance to win the Steelbook edition of Ghostbusters. The 1984 classic starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Sigourney Weaver has been given the Blu-ray treatment and comes in a fantastic collectible Steelbook, and also includes an UltraViolet copy of the film. When their funding grant [...]
Tweet The high storage capacity of Blu-ray makes it an ideal solution for backing up and archiving data, and that process has just got a little faster after Pioneer announced its new internal BD drive. The BDR-2208 will be the fastest drive available on the market at 15x speed, and also features QuickPlay functionality to [...]
Tweet Steven Spielberg’s legendary sci-fi epic, E.T. The Extra Terrestrial, is set to hit Blu-ray in just a few weeks (October 22nd) and rave reviews are starting to come in. Crave Online’s review immediately praises the music, not just for John William’s powerful and memorable score but for the overall quality of the sound on [...]
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