Following last Friday’s post, here’s this week’s recommended Christmas Blu-rays. Great for a Christmas gift, or to simply enjoy at home, these Blu-rays are great for the grown-ups in your family including The Dictator and Magic Mike.
Posts Tagged ‘Christmas’
The Snowman makes Blu-ray debut
Published October 24th, 2012
Tweet To celebrate its 30th anniversary, everyone’s favourite snowman is making his Blu-ray debut in time for Christmas. Raymond Brigg’s classic animation The Snowman was nominated for the 1982 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, and is also notable for its haunting theme song Walking In The Air. Practically a national institution in the [...]
2011 proves to be a bumper year for Blu-ray
Published January 10th, 2012
Tweet The British Video Association (BVA) has revealed physical video entertainment sales in December 2011 rose 8.4% to a value of £473.3 million when compared with December 2010. And the reason behind this leap? Well, it seems the plethora of blockbuster titles on offer were just too good to resist, with the likes of Harry [...]
Blu-ray Disc Sales up 35% in 2011
Published December 14th, 2011
Tweet As Christmas approaches it seems that more and more of us will be tucking into a mince pie whilst watching our favourite movies on Blu-ray, according to recent figures published in Home Media Magazine. Sales of Blu-ray Disc movies in the last four months of the year have skyrocketed throughout Europe (particularly Germany) and [...]
UK retailer Asda announces £40 Blu-ray player and predicts BD to outsell DVD this Christmas
Published November 29th, 2011
Tweet Blu-ray players will outsell DVD players this Christmas, according to British supermarket chain Asda who is also now selling its own entry level BD player for £40 in its larger stores. With HDTVs being more common in UK homes, Blu-ray’s superior 1080p picture quality and ability to ‘upscale’ standard DVDs have been cited as [...]
Bridesmaids on Blu-ray gets the thumbs up on WhatCulture
Published November 22nd, 2011
Tweet Back in August, we brought you the news that Bridesmaids was landing on Blu-ray. Now that the bridal-shower blast of brassy hilarity has been officially released, we thought we’d see what those culture vultures at WhatCulture made of it. The film itself is described as ‘Arguably the best comedy of the year’, with the [...]
Digital Entertainment Group study shows Blu-ray is booming
Published November 8th, 2011
Tweet According to research from the Digital Entertainment Group, the home entertainment industry is booming, with a five percent upsurge in sales in 2011’s third quarter, with sales of Blu-ray Discs cited as a huge contributing factor. So what exactly is it that’s driving audiences to the format? According to the research, new and classic [...]
Merry Christmas!
Published December 24th, 2010Tweet With Christmas now just hours away and Santa well on his way (hopefully with a sleigh full of Blu-ray Discs in tow), the BD Reporter is closing up for the holidays. We wish a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone who’s visited the site, left comments, tweeted us or supported us [...]
A Christmas Carol flies onto Blu-ray 3D
Published December 22nd, 2010Tweet [tweetmeme source= "blurayreporter" only_single=false] For 2010’s final post we bring you news of a suitably festive Blu-ray 3D release to top off a huge year for fantastic developments in this field of technology. Walt Disney Pictures’ ‘A Christmas Carol’ lands on BD3D just in time for the holiday season, giving audiences of all ages [...]
Best of Blu-ray Monday coming Monday 13th December!
Published December 10th, 2010Tweet [tweetmeme source= "blurayreporter" only_single=false] With a chill in the air and jingle-bell pop dominating the charts once more, there’s no denying Christmas 2010 is well and truly upon us. Keen to make a festive splash, we can now reveal next week’s Blu-ray Monday Giveaway will take on an extra special twist. From 13th December, [...]
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