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Sony is planning to invest nearly $110 million in new equipment and property improvements to upgrade its Terre Haute, Indianapolis plant following Blu-ray’s victory in the “high-def war”.

Sony will invest more than $101 million in new equipment and more than $7.4 million in property improvements, for a total of $108.5 million. Along with new equipment, the company will hire at least 65 new employees.

New release Tuesday will only see two new Blu-ray movies: Enchanted and I Am Legend. Two movies that were huge successes at the box office that will no doubt sell quite well on Blu-ray.

Warner Bros. is finally releasing Batman Begins on Blu-ray Disc on July 8, just in time to cash in on the July 18th release of its sequel, The Dark Knight. It’s not like Warner Bros. needs any help getting this to sell as its one of the most requested and anticipated Blu-ray releases.

The film will be released in two versions. A single disc edition for $28.99 and a limited-edition gift set for $49.99 which includes a Batman Begins motion art lenticular, exclusive photos, script pages, storyboards, five postcards and $7.50 in movie cash toward… you guessed it… The Dark Knight. Both versions will also include an exclusive comic book prologue to The Dark Knight.

Oh and a friendly reminder letting you know that July 8th is also the release date for Batman: Gotham Knight, the animated collection of Batman shorts created by renowned writers and animators.

Acer today presented the Aspire 8920G, a brand new notebook PC series designed to take full advantage of Blu-ray discs. To enjoy the full 1920×1080 resolution, these new laptops will include a huge 18.4″ screen.

To power this beast, Acer includes an Intel Core 2 Duo processor and either an NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS graphics card or an NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS card. Both of them support NVIDIA PureVideo HD technology, Shader Model 4.0 and Microsoft DirectX 10.

And if you have an HDTV with an HDMI input you can hook up the laptop to it to enjoy HD goodness on your big screen.

This week we’re treated to quite a number of Blu-ray releases ranging from a world where designer babies are the norm to a world where a coin toss determines if you live or die.

This week’s Blu-ray releases are:

Appleseed Ex Machina
August Rush
Dan in Real Life
Dogma
Gattaca
Hitman
I, Robot
Independence Day
No Country for Old Men
Sleuth

Via EngadgetHD

Sony today announced that they will be releasing eight Adam Sandler movies in one day. That incredibly awesome day will be May 20, 2008 — in time to capitalize on the media attention for Sandler’s upcoming movie, Don’t Mess with the Zohan.

The eight movies being released as part of the new “Sandler Line” are: Anger Management, Big Daddy, Mr Deeds, Punch-Drunk Love, Spanglish, Eight Crazy Nights, 50 First Dates, and Click. And yes, 50 First Dates and Click are already available so I’m assuming the only thing that will change for those two movies is the packaging.

Lionsgate announced today that the Blu-ray release of Rambo will include an iTunes digital copy, which enables users to transfer the film to a PC, iPod, iPhone or AppleTV. The movie is scheduled for release on Blu-ray and DVD, which also includes the digital copy, on May 27, 2008.

The studio added that it will team with Apple to offer more digital copies on DVD and Blu-ray discs later this year.

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer quotes Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer when asked about Microsoft’s support for Blu-ray:

“We’ve already been working on, for example, in Windows, device driver support for Blu-ray drives and the like,” Ballmer stated. “I think the world moves on. Toshiba has moved on. We’ve moved on, and we’ll support Blu-ray in ways that make sense.”

The comments were made during an on-stage conversation at Microsoft’s Mix08 Internet conference in Las Vegas.