Here are this week’s new releases:
21
The BBC High-Definition Natural History Collection
Daft Punk’s Electroma
Earth: The Biography
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Kiss of the Spider Woman
The Mummy Returns
The Mummy
The Perfect Storm
The Scorpion King
Urban Legend
Via EngadgetHD
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment today announced that CAN’T HARDLY WAIT: 10 YEAR REUNION EDITION will arrive on DVD and Blu-ray this September 30.
Of course, no reunion would be complete without a few surprises and CAN’T HARDLY WAIT: 10 YEAR REUNION EDITON is packed with them in the form of new bonus features, including a brand new Reunion Commentary with filmmakers and cast, “Huntington High Class of ‘98’ Reunion†featurette, deleted scenes, the “You Know You’re ‘90’’s If…†interactive game and more.
Sony’s new Blu-ray player, model BDP-S350, is now available across the country at Sony Style retail outlets, sonystyle.com and other authorized Sony retailers.
The BDP-S350 supports BonusView (picture-in-picture), which is featured on select new Blu-ray Disc releases, and is also BD-Live ready, with an Ethernet port for easy firmware updates and access to Internet-based interactive content features. A firmware update enabling BD-Live is planned later this year.
It also features quick start-up mode improving the player’s boot-up time to approximately a few seconds and offers an external port for local storage for BD-Live, allowing users to add an optional flash storage device (sold separately).
Since many consumers own extensive DVD movie libraries, the BDP-S350 incorporates Sony’s new Precision Cinema HD Upscale technology that converts standard-definition signals (480i) to 1080p and outputs a full HD equivalent resolution signal to 1080p TVs via HDMI. Additionally, the model also adds Sony’s new Precision Drive HD, which helps to detect and correct wobbling discs from three directions, stabilizing playback of bent or scratched Blu-ray Discs and DVDs.
In addition, the unit features 21 percent less power consumption in playback mode and 43 percent reduced power consumption in stand-by mode.
The model offers 7.1 channel Dolby TrueHD and Dolby Digital Plus decoding and bit-stream output, as well as DTS-HD High Resolution Audio and Master Audio bit-stream output.
The player also feature compatibility with an array of video formats, including BD-R/RE (BDMV and BDAV modes), DVD+R/+RW, DVD-R/-RW, CD, CD-R/RW (CD-DA format), and JPEG on DVD/CD recordable media.
The new BDP-S350 is now available for about $400.
On September 2, Warner Home Video will release five action movies on Blu-ray for the first time. The five new Blu-ray titles are listed below.
Eraser (1996) – Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Eraser, an elite federal marshal who “erases” the pasts of jeopardized informers and relocates them into safe anonymity.
Outbreak (1995) – Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo and Morgan Freeman race to save life on earth when an unstoppable killer virus hits our shores.
Under Siege 2 (1995) – Aboard a hijacked train in Colorado, Steven Seagal is ex-Navy Seal Casey Ryback, the only person who can thwart a renegade techno-expert from destroying the Pentagon and Washington, D.C.
Every Which Way But Loose (1978) – Clint Eastwood plays a hard-drinking trucker chasing the love of his life to Colorado.
Gauntlet (1977) – A slow-witted Arizona cop is assigned to escort a prostitute, who is marked for death by the mob, from Las Vegas to Phoenix as a potential trial witness. Starring Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke and Pat Hingle. Directed by Clint Eastwood.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has announced the upcoming release of four action movies: xXx State of the Union, Half Past Dead, 7 Seconds and Maximum Risk on Blu-ray on August 12, 2008. Each Blu-ray Disc comes with features that include commentary, featurettes, Easter Egg, deleted scenes and more.
The suspense film Deception arrives on DVD and Blu-ray Disc September 23rd from Fox Home Entertainment. Featuring Hugh Jackman, Ewan McGregor, Michelle Williams and Maggie Q, Deception follows a naïve accountant named Wyatt who is lured into an elite and clandestine sex club known as “The List†by his slick lawyer friend, played by Jackman. He becomes enthralled with this new lifestyle, but soon becomes the prime suspect in a woman’s disappearance and a multimillion-dollar heist.
The Deception Blu-ray release will be authored in BD-Java with AVC (MPEG 4 compression) on a dual-layer 50 GB disc with English 5.1 DTS HD Master Audio plus Spanish and French Dolby Surround and Spanish, French, Cantonese and Mandarin subtitles.
Here are this week’s new releases:
The Bank Job
College Road Trip
Dragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks/Bardock: Father of Goku
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Shutter
Step Up 2: The Streets
Via EngadgetHD
When Walt Disney’s beloved animated classic, Sleeping Beauty was presented 50 years ago for the first time in an all new Super Technirama 70 format, it mesmerized audiences and critics alike. Now in 2008, this classic fairytale is poised to do the same for a whole new generation to enjoy when it is reawakened in a special BD Live enabled 50th Anniversary Platinum Edition Sleeping Beauty Blu-ray Disc, releasing October 7, 2008. Additionally, the film has been packaged to include a bonus DVD of the movie.
Sleeping Beauty will support Disney’s BD Live Network which combines chat, video streaming, online messaging, communal gaming and more.
Disney’s BD Live Network will allow viewers to: Chat on-screen in real-time with friends while watching a movie screen-by-screen; Record personalized video greetings that appears on-screen over a pre-selected scene in a movie; Play real-time interactive or strategy games against single and/or multiple groups of people; And much more.
As one of the stars of the ABC’s “Ugly Betty,” Ana Ortiz plays Hilda Suarez, big sister to the title character. Today, Ortiz does a 180 from her current role by voicing gritty detective Anna Ramirez in the DC Universe original animated film “Batman Gotham Knight.” The film is available today, July 8, on DVD, Blu-Ray and OnDemand.
Ortiz took a few moments to discuss her role as detective Anna Ramirez.
Question: What were your impressions of your “Batman Gotham Knight” segments?
Ana Ortiz: I loved them – and I wanted more! This was one of my first real voiceovers and, to do it for Batman, that was quite an honor. My husband and all of his cartoony friends were really into it – they all watched my copy of the movie and dug it. I have to admit that it’s fun being in something that my guy friends could get into. So now I’ve got my macho cred, too.
© 2008-2025 Blu-ray Wire
Design by Anders Noren — Up ↑