Dolby 7.1 Toy Story 3 debut

Although home theater Blu-ray owners feel like they have been enjoying 7.1 channel sound for some time now, “Toy Story 3” will be the first major studio theatrical release to be mixed completely in Dolby‘s Surround 7.1 from the very first stage of design to final mix when it premieres in theaters June 18. That [...]

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 [...]

Shawn Levy’s Blu Museum

Shawn Levy seemingly spends as much time laboring over Blu-ray bonus features as he does the movie itself. And his hands-on involvement doesn’t end when the materials are sent to be encoded into the disc; Levy even led a lengthy media event to showcase clips from the Dec. 1 release of “Night at the Museum [...]

Carlos Saldanha on Blu Ice & 3D

Director Carlos Saldanha told me during a walking video interview (below) at the Fox Media (family) Day for the Oct. 27 Blu-ray release of “Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs” that Blu-ray is the most pristine format to view the movie. Even though the movie cannot be seen at home in 3D yet as [...]

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