Silence of the Lambs Coming To Blu-ray on March 3, 2009

The infamous psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer, Dr. Hannibal Lecter consumes his way onto Blu-ray Disc in The Silence Of The Lambs, arriving March 3 courtesy of MGM Home Entertainment. Based on the frightening best-seller by Thomas Harris, The......Read More

Original Star Trek Season 2 Coming To Blu-ray With Content For iPhones and More

Experience one of the greatest action-adventure sagas like never before when the thrilling second season of STAR TREK®: THE ORIGINAL SERIES blasts onto Blu-ray disc September 22 from CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment. The seven-disc set features all......Read More

2L Records Release Piano Music of Edvard Grieg on Blu-ray and SACD in Surround.

The magic of a "time machine" brings Percy Grainger's original performance back to life in this modern surround-sound recording with the Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Rolf Gupta. Edvard Grieg himself bears witness to the validity and authenticity of Grainger's......Read More

Adult Content Shaping The Future of Blu-ray and HD Downloads

The adult video industry has long been credited with resolving the VHS versus Beta war of past, and that same industry may just be settling a video format war again. I'm not talking about the Blu-ray vs. HD DVD battle......Read More

Air Force One and Glory Coming To Blu-ray on June 2, 2009 with BD-Live

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment re-lives two heart-pounding tales of American heroism and bravery with Oscar-nominated Air Force One (Best Editing and Best Sound, 1998) and Oscar-winner Glory (Best Cinematography and Best Sound, 1989) arriving on high definition Blu-ray™ June 2,......Read More

All Six Rocky Films Coming To Blu-ray

This holiday season, a "nobody" becomes a "somebody" when Rocky: The Undisputed Collection unveils all six powerhouse films together on stunning Blu-ray Disc (BD) November 3 from MGM Home Entertainment. This definitive collection enshrines the rags to riches tale of......Read More

An Open Letter To Audiophile Record Labels About Blu-ray For Music

To All Audiophile and Specialty Record Labels, Today is the day to see the extraordinary opportunity in front of you. The days of selling retro-vinyl titles or dead-format SACDs are over. The Blu-ray era is here and you have every......Read More

Angels & Demons Coming to Blu-ray

The team behind the global phenomenon The Da Vinci Code returns for the box office smash Angels & Demons, coming to 2-Disc Extended Edition DVD and Blu-ray Disc™ November 24 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The film will also be......Read More

Apple Denies Rumor About 1080p Video on iTunes

Rumors have recently surfaced that Apple is quietly adding higher-resolution HD video content to their increasingly popular iTunes download platform. 1080p video resolution is currently the highest level of high-definition content available to consumers today and is found only on......Read More

Apple Rumored To Be Adding Blu-ray To Computers and iTunes 8.2

Apple Computer is notoriously secretive about their future technology which has created a whole world of Mac gossip and rumor sites. Computer super-site, CNET.com, is not one of these gossip sites and they are reporting that there is talk that......Read More

Are Blu-ray's Days Numbered? The Half Life of AV Disc Theory

New audio-video formats have a definite lifespan and that lifespan is getting increasingly short as "convergence" becomes more and more of a factor in consumer electronics. As Dr. Ken Taraszka pointed out in his January 2009 look at the current......Read More

Best Buy To Add Vinyl To Music Sections

Talk about going retro... Best Buy recently announced that they would be adding vinyl to the music section of their vast chain of stores. A lot of hype has been made of a resurgence of the LP; however overall sales......Read More

Blu-ray and SACD in the Same Package From 2L Records - HD Downloads Too?

A small, Nordic audiophile record label is doing what the four majors should be doing by releasing their music both on HD discs and in HD downloads. For about the price of a traditional movie or concert video on Blu-ray,......Read More

Blu-ray Limits Its Growth Rate With Constant Firmware Updates

What are the Hollywood studios thinking these days with these feature-loaded Blu-ray titles that have the power to render a player to not play their newest films? While Blu-ray has tremendous power to be updated thus allowing new, sexy added......Read More

CDs Sales Tank in 2008 While Blu-ray, Downloads and Even Vinyl Boom

Just when you were thinking, "When will the music industry get it through their thick skulls that the compact disc is a dead audio format?" come new numbers from Nielsen that show that the CD is even more dead than......Read More

Comeback Star Mickey Rourke In The Wrestler on Blu-ray

One of the most-critically acclaimed films of the year, featured on dozens of year-end "top ten" lists and garnering numerous accolades for its once fallen star, The Wrestler debuts on Blu-ray Disc and DVD April 21 from Twentieth Century Fox......Read More

Denon & Warner Home Video Offer Special Dark Knight Blu-ray Promotion

Mail-In Promotion Offers Consumers Both The Dark Knight and Batman Begins with the Purchase of Denon Blu-ray Disc PlayerDenon Electronics today announced it is teaming up with Warner Home Video for a major holiday promotion keyed to the much anticipated......Read More

EASY RIDER coming to Blu-ray on October 13

To commemorate the 40th anniversary of EASY RIDER, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will debut the Oscar®-nominated counterculture classic October 13th on high definition Blu-ray Disc. The epitome of cool, EASY RIDER, was released during the Woodstock era and features a......Read More

Family Guy Season Seven Coming To DVD on June 16, 2009

Sick, twisted, politically incorrect and freakin' sweet, "Family Guy" Volume Seven arrives on DVD June 16 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. With all-new uncensored hilarity and hi-jinx, the national phenomenon continues as the Griffin clan embarks on even more......Read More

Family Guy Star Wars Parody Coming to Blu-ray

"Family Guy: Something, Something, Something, Darkside" Synopsis 
 The story of The Empire Strikes Back is retold. Darth Vader (Stewie) is hunting the rebel Luke Skywalker (Chris) and his troops relentlessly across the galaxy. On the ice planet Hoth, Luke......Read More

First Annual Loss for Sony in 14 Years

Sony reported their first annual loss in 14 years today; however the company beat their estimate as to how deep the loss would be. For the past year or so Sony has been slashing jobs, offering early retirements and closing......Read More

Godzilla Coming To Blu-ray on Nov. 10

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment introduces a behemoth of a Blu-ray Disc with the November 10, 2009 release of Godzilla for the SLP of $24.95. Co-written and directed by premiere action auteur Roland Emmerich (Day After Tomorrow, 2012), this modern-day take......Read More

Goldfinger, Moonraker and The World is Not Enough Coming in a Blu-ray Boxed Set

Experience the world of Bond the way it was meant to be seen as the ultimate spy series reveals even faster car chases, shinier gadgets and sexier Bond Girls, when three classic 007 films premiere on Blu-ray Disc (BD) March......Read More

Hitachi To Acquire Remaining Shares of Hitachi Maxell Ltd.

The Hitachi Group announced its decision, by way of a tender offer, to acquire the common stock of Hitachi Maxell, Ltd. Hitachi believes that the move to acquire Hitachi Maxell as a wholly owned subsidiary will reinforce Hitachi Maxell's business......Read More

Holiday Blu-ray Sales Very Strong Despite Weak 2008 Shopping Season

During these unprecedented economic times, not every category of the economy is completely stinking it up. Hollywood studios and large electronics companies have put a major push to make Blu-ray get up and dance on its own as an......Read More

Is 99 Cents the New Free For Movie Downloads?

It's no secret the film industry is hurting these days. While the month-to-month theatrical earnings seem to fluctuate compared to previous years, overall earnings are down. Home video is no different as DVD continues its downward spiral aided by the......Read More

James Bond - Never Say Never Again Coming To Blu-ray on 3/24/09

Sean Connery is James Bond in the high-velocity action thriller Never Say Never Again arriving on Blu-ray Disc and Collector's Edition DVD March 24 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. SPECTRE agents under the command of Ernst Blofeld, played by......Read More

James Bond QUANTUM of SOLACE Coming To Blu-ray in March

The high-octane action of the world's most famous secret agent continues when QUANTUM OF SOLACE explodes onto Blu-ray and DVD this March from MGM and Fox Home Entertainment. A worldwide box office phenomenon, QUANTUM OF SOLACE has broken countless records......Read More

Jamiroquai Live at Montreux Is Coming To Blu-ray

Eagle Rock Entertainment make another live concert performance available via the Blu-ray format. On August 4, they will release the first ever Jamiroquai Blu-ray, when Live At Montreux 2003 hits stores (MSRP $24.98). In 2003, Jamiroquai brought their signature......Read More

Legendary Music Photographer Jim Marshall Launches

Recognized worldwide as one of the preeminent music photographers -- from rock to jazz and almost all points in between -- Jim Marshall has captured dozens of iconic images and shot more than 500 album covers in his 50-year career.......Read More

LG To Add VUDU To Its Blu-ray Players

LG Electronics today announced the addition of the high-definition streaming movie service from VUDU, Inc. to the LG Wireless Network Blu-ray Player (model BD390). With VUDU, consumers can instantly buy or rent from an extensive library of movies and TV......Read More

LICENCE TO KILL and THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN Coming to Blu-ray on May 12, 2009

The ultimate spy series is bolder than ever in high definition as two more must-own missions LICENCE TO KILL and THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN arrive on Blu-ray Disc (BD) May 12 from MGM and Twentieth Century Fox Home......Read More

Marilyn Manson, Santana, Billy Idol and Earth Wind & Fire Coming To Blu-ray

Eagle Rock Entertainment will be delivering performances from Earth, Wind, & Fire, Carlos Santana, Billy Idol, and Marilyn Manson are released just in time for the holidays. Blu-ray discs will retail for $24.95. In 1997, funk-soul collective Earth, Wind, &......Read More

MGM & FOX Release Six James Bond Films On Blu-ray

MGM AND FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT PRESENT SIX BOND FILMS ON BLU-RAY DISC  - NOW AVAILABLE IN STORESIncludes the Fully Restored Original Bond Film DR. NO and FIVE More Includes QUANTUM OF SOLACE Movie Ticket* The world's most well known secret agent is......Read More

Netflix Has 500,000 Subscribers Renting Blu-ray Discs

Video rental company, Netflix, is reporting that they have toped the 500,000 mark for people subscribing to their service who want their movies sent in 1080p video on a Blu-ray discs. This number is not insignificant as other HD audio......Read More

Netflix To Offer Download System on Sony's PS3 Game System

Not to be outdone by Microsoft's Xbox 360 game system, Netflix just announced that for $8.95 their subscribers will be able to rent movies via their Playstation 3 game console. This download service will not interfere with Netflix rent-by-mail service......Read More

Netflix Ups Blu-ray Surcharge From $1 to $4 Per Month

Leading home video rental service, Netflix, informed their Blu-ray subscribers today that on April 27, 2009 they will institute a new increase the monthly charge. The price increase depends on the volume of discs in your subscription thus subscribers could......Read More

Notorious - The Story of Rapper Biggie Smalls Coming To Blu-ray

The life and death of one of hip-hop's most powerful and iconic MCs is captured in the hard-hitting and controversial biopic NOTORIOUS, arriving on Unrated Director's Cut and Unrated Director's Cut Collector's Edition on Blu-ray and DVD April 21 from......Read More

Peter Jackson's District 9 Coming To Blu-ray

From executive producer Peter Jackson (King Kong, The Lord of the Rings trilogy) comes the critically-acclaimed sci-fi thriller District 9, debuting on Blu-ray and 2-Disc DVD December 29 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Director Neill Blomkamp (Crossing the Line, Tempbot)......Read More

Radio Shack Earns New Sales With Green Trade-in Program

If you thought sex sells then wait until you see how green sells. Radio Shack is the latest player in the consumer electronics space to cash in on the opportunity to open a sales dialog with consumers by suggesting that......Read More

Raging Bull Coming To Blu-ray Disc on February 10, 2009

Experience a boxer's emotional journey, as the violence and temper that made him a champion inside the ring destroy his life outside of it, when Raging Bull rings onto visually stunning Blu-ray Disc (BD) for the first time on February......Read More

Robert Altman's M*A*S*H Coming To Blu-ray

The 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is shaken up by the arrival of Captains Hawkeye Pierce and Duke Forrest, amazing surgeons but lousy soldiers, who deal with the daily carnage of the war by raising hell, as M*A*S*H ten-huts onto......Read More

Rumor: You Tube To Be Releasing 1080p Video

Online review site, Lifehacker.com, is reporting that Google's uber-popular, free video download site, YouTube.com, will be launching a 1080p HD video service in the next few days. This news comes as players like Microsoft and Apple jockey for position in......Read More

Samsung and Blockbuster Ink VOD Deal For HDTVs and Players

Samsung and Blockbuster just announced the immediate availability of Blockbuster's vast and growing library of premium digital entertainment for rent or purchase on select 2009 Samsung HDTVs, Blu-ray players and Blu-ray integrated Home Theater Systems. Specific models featuring the new......Read More

Samsung Announces YouTube Service for Select Blu-ray Players

Samsung Electronics America today announced the availability of YouTube on select Samsung Blu-ray players. Owners of the BD-P1600, BD-P3600 or BD-P4600 Blu-ray players will be able to enjoy user-generated content on YouTube by uploading the value-added service at no additional......Read More

Samsung Inks a DRM Deal with Intertrust

Intertrust Technologies Corporation and Samsung Electronics have entered into a patent licensing agreement for all products made by the Samsung Digital Media & Communications (DMC) Division. Licensed Samsung DMC products include a broad range of consumer electronics and mobile products......Read More

Slumdog Millionaire Coming To Blu-ray on March 31

Slumdog Millionaire, this year's critical darling about a young boy from the slums of Mumbai who discovers love and fortune, arrives on Blu-ray Disc With Digital Copy and DVD March 31st from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. Garnering top honors......Read More

Sony and Best Buy To Sell Exclusive ALTUS Line of Electronics

Representing nearly two years of cooperation in market research and engineering efforts, Sony Electronics Inc. and Best Buy Co., Inc. today announced the new "ALTUS" audio product line. Featuring a stylish assortment of wireless music systems, speakers, and home theater......Read More

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Partners with Gracenote To Deliver First Live, In-Movie Film Information with movieIQ

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment today announced the launch of movieIQ, a new Blu-ray Disc feature powered by Gracenote® that offers viewers access to a real-time movie database. With a movieIQ-enabled Blu-ray Disc and an internet-connected Blu-ray™ player, movie fans can......Read More

South Pacific Coming To Blu-ray In March 2009

Adapted from Rodgers and Hammerstein's Pulitzer Prize®-winning musical, now enjoying a Tony Award®-winning smash hit revival on Broadway, South Pacific follows a Navy nurse forced to choose between love and prejudice during World War II.  Brought to the screen by......Read More

Sytx and Gary Moore Coming to Blu-ray Disc

Eagle Rock Entertainment is releasing more music oritented Blu-ray titles this spring. February of 2009 saw the release of The Cure Trilogy and The Who Live At The Isle Of Wight, while March blossomed with Jeff Beck Performing This Week...Live......Read More

The Blu-ray Debut Of This Is Spinal Tap

MGM Home Entertainment Releases Rob Reiner's Rockumentary Starring Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer Debuts on Blu-ray Disc January 20th Brand New BD Exclusive Game, "Create Your Own Band", Also Debuts This is Spinal Tap comes to Blu-ray Disc......Read More

The Princess Bride Coming to Blu-ray on 3/17/09

Savvy swordfights, eccentric giants, an evil prince, a dashing hero and a beautiful princess; relive the extraordinary story, The Princess Bride, now as vivid as ones' imagination, debuting on Blu-ray Disc March 17 from MGM Home Entertainment. This staple of......Read More

This Is Spinal Tap! Now Out On Blu-ray

The legendary rock-u-drama directed by Rob Reiner, This is Spinal Tap!, is now out on Blu-ray. Featuring a Blu-ray disc that will reportedly go to 11, Spinal Tap is a must have for any movie buff. The Blu-ray version of......Read More

Toshiba To Make Blu-ray Players Late in 2009

The Eagles said that they would reunite "when hell freezes over" but somehow they all ended up on a stage together again. In a similar move, Toshiba is reported to be preparing a Blu-ray product offering slated for release later......Read More

Toto and Eminem Coming To Blu-ray On October 20, 2009

On October 20, Toto Falling In Between Live and Eminem Live From New York City will be given the Blu-ray treatment via Eagle Rock Entertainment's Eagle Vision subsidiary [pre-book order date September 30, MSRP $24.98]. Originally released on standard DVD......Read More

Valkyrie Coming To Blu-ray on May 19, 2009

The remarkable yet seldom told true story of the German Resistance's attempted coup and assassination of Adolf Hitler reveals itself when Valkyrie is released on Blu-ray Disc and Special Edition DVD with Digital Copy on May 19th from MGM Home......Read More

Wal-Mart Selling Some Blu-ray Titles Online For $10

And I thought Subway selling foot-long hoagies for five dollars was impressive but news has leaked that Wal-mart is selling some older catalog Blu-ray titles for as little as $10. Some of these titles include "First Blood", the home theater......Read More

Warner Brothers To Buy Back DVDs For Blu-ray Discs

After Hollywood super-studio, Warner Brothers, ended the HD disc format war on "Blu-Friday" at the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show they offered a trade-in program where end users could swap out their HD DVD titles for Blu-ray. Now the studio is......Read More

What if HDMI Actually Worked?

Let me be clear with the fact that without HDMI there wouldn't be volumes of 1080p HD content, complete with beaming video, 7.1 uncompressed HD audio and all of those feature-laden supplemental materials that we get from Blu-ray. At the......Read More

What Would You Pay To "Day-and-Date" Download a First Run Movie in HD?

Readers of HomeTheaterReview.com invest in varying grades of AV systems, from enthusiastic yet entry-level all the way to insanely expensive, purpose-built, stadium-seat epic home theaters. It's safe to say that today even a Vizio LCD and a sound bar in......Read More