Cameron talks Avatar at Blu-Con 11/2
James Cameron and his producer Jon Landau will share a conversation about “Avatar” with attendees to promote a special edition of the movie on Blu-ray Disc at the third annual Blu-Con conference on Tuesday, Nov. 2 at The Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. The conference of industry trade organization DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group focuses [...]
3D Blu-ray authoring Aug. 3
The challenges and opportunities associated with 3D Blu-ray authoring will be discussed among industry experts at the second part of the BluFocus invitation-only seminar series “3D-Focus: 3D Blu-ray Authoring” from 2 p.m. – 6 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 3 at DTS, Inc., 5220 Las Virgenes Road, Calabasas, CA 91302. Hands-on demos from leading technology companies will [...]
DEG panels at 3D Ent. Summit
DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group (DEG) will co-sponsor the third annual 3D Entertainment Summit slated for September 15-16, 2010 at the Hilton Los Angeles/Universal City. The home entertainment industry promotional group will present four “Home 3D: Solutions and Strategies” panels on the second day two of the Summit, which is co-produced by The Bob Dowling [...]
Landis joins Sony tribute to Harryhausen
Filmmaker John Landis joined executives from Sony Pictures Imageworks and Home Entertainment Monday evening in dedicating a newly-upgraded Imageworks screening room to visual effects legend Ray Harryhausen as the auteur recently celebrated his 90th birthday and Sony releases a new remastered edition of Harryhausen’s “Jason and the Argonauts.” The movie was screened in the for [...]
Sony’s Harryhausen dedication
In celebration of his 90th birthday and the July 6 Blu-ray release of his iconic “Jason and the Argonauts,” Sony Pictures Digital Productions is renaming and formally dedicating its 119-seat screening theater after visual effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen on July 12. It’s been quite a year for Harryhausen, whose 1981 film “Clash of the Titans” [...]
Chipmunks Go Dodger Blu
Chipmunks movie producer Ross Bagdasarian, Jr. told HollywoodInHiDef.com / 3DHollywood.net that not only is he taking the irrespressible singing and mischievous rodents to 3D for their next cinematic outing but that he’s exploring converting the previous two Chipmunks movies dating back to the mid-1980s to 3D as well. Bagdasarian’s revelations (seen in 2 1/2-minute video [...]
Cameron: Thank God for Blu-ray!
Director James Cameron says many aspects of the Blu-ray version of “Avatar,” being released April 22 by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, are as good or better than the theatrical versions. “Thank God for Blu-ray,” he said following the screening of a clip from the movie on Blu-ray Disc to selected members of the media [...]
3D games by NVIDIA and Panasonic
Computer graphics company NVIDIA debuted and demonstrated its new NVIDIA 3DTV Play at the Panasonic “Touch the Future” tour in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York today (March 15). Panasonic has teamed up with NVIDIA for the new software that allows any computer-based videogame to be displayed in stereoscopic 3D. It is expected to be [...]
Panasonic delivers on 3D promise
“Avatar” producer Jon Landau praised Panasonic’s 3D products at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show where the company delivered on its promise of 2009 CES by introducing 3D TVs and Blu-ray players, a partnership with DirecTV for three 3D TV channels, as well as WiFi-capable and faster-loading Blu-ray players along with a 152-inch plasma displat, and [...]
Blu-ray up 76% to 17 mil. homes
More than 17 million homes in the U.S. had one sort of Blu-ray playback device or another by the end of 2009, up an enormous 76% from last year. Overseas there are another 23 million homes with one of 80-plus models of Blu-ray players, including PlayStation 3. Meanwhile, Blu-ray disc sales catapulted another 70% last [...]
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