Just as the Blu-ray industry touted the extraordinary sales success of Blu-ray in 2010 at CES here in Las Vegas on Thursday (Jan. 6), Storm Troopers and Darth Vader took the Panasonic booth stage with Fox Home Entertainment president Mike Dunn to announce that all six films in the Star Wars Saga … [Read more...]
Blu-ray Disc Assoc. touts strong numbers
January 7, 2011 By 3 Comments
Blu-ray Disc Association officials are bullish on the growing strength of the Blu-ray Disc market, especially in the face of a down economy, the lowest number of tickets purchased for movie theaters in a decade, a continuing decline of DVD sales, and a surging move to watching all media digitally … [Read more...]
Philips’ three new Blu-ray portables
January 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Philips Electronics showed its first three new portable Blu-ray players, starting at $299 int he following 2 1/2-minute video produced for HollywoodInHiDef.com with partner GamerLive.tv at CES 2011 in Las Vegas... By Scott Hettrick … [Read more...]
Panasonic 3D, Blu, web-connects
January 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Get a firsthand summary of all the new 3D, plasma, Blu-ray, and web-connected offerings in a 4 1/2-min. interview I was lucky to get with Panasonic chief technology officer Eisuke Tsuyuzaki whom I bumped into on the show floor at CES 2011 in Las Vegas... Now … [Read more...]
Sony Blu-ray 3D converts 2D-to-3D
January 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Sony's new Blu-ray 3D player upconverts 2D to 3D and does Internet streaming and has wireless speakers capability as explained in this 1 1/2-minute video interview at 2011 CES by 3DHollywood.net partner GamerLive.net. … [Read more...]
Sharp’s 3DTVs, Blu-rays at CES
January 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Sit in with me on the full half-hour presentation of Sharp on media preview day at 2011 CES in Las Vegas. The virtues of the Aquos Quattron 3D TV and other displays are discussed beginning at the 12:45 point - 19:00, followed by a 3D projector, and 3D Blu-ray players at 20:25. The presentation … [Read more...]
Disney 2011 Blu-ray 3Ds: Lion King, Beauty
January 3, 2011 By 2 Comments
Marking the biggest and most aggressive commitment by any studio to the Blu-ray 3D format, The Walt Disney Studios announced this morning that the company will release at least 15 of the studio's films on Blu-ray 3D this year. As we first reported here last August, two of the releases will be … [Read more...]
Social Network Blu-ray Jan. 11
December 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Perhaps the most honored and nominated movie of the year so far, "The Social Network" is coming to Blu-ray on January 11, prior to the announcement of the winners of The Golden Globes, for which it collected six nominations, or even the announcement of nominations for Academy Awards. Sony Pictures … [Read more...]
Black Friday is Blu with record sales
December 9, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Blu-ray sales set a record for unit volume during Black Friday week, and were more than 50% ahead of last year’s sales with a revenue increase as well, according to NPD’s Consumer Technology Black Friday week sales data. Despite a 3.5% decline in overall sales from last year, the influx of … [Read more...]
Bambi in Blu March 1
December 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Bambi is coming out of the forest and onto Blu-ray Disc March 1 in the Walt Disney Studios' latest Diamond Collection entry of classics in HiDef. The 70-minute "Bambi" was Walt Disney's fifth animated theatrical feature in 1942 and it was nominated for three Academy Awards, including Best Song … [Read more...]
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