In this review Batman himself talks about the Batman Begins HD DVD as well as some features of HD DVDs in general.

News from CES 2007 is showing that many major porn studios are now leaning towards HD-DVD over Blu-Ray for a variety of reasons. A trend I’ve noticed while browsing in stores is that a lot more family oriented films seem to be going Blu-Ray with studios like Sony, Fox and Disney having a lot to offer that demographic, while HD-DVD has a larger selection of adult oriented titles, which is a phenomenon which will only be encouraged by this trend in the industry.

The high cost of Blu-Ray seems to be a major deterent of the format. A representative for the studio Bangbros mentions that the HD-DVD player is felt to have had better market penetration when compared to Blu-Ray largely due to the HD-DVD add on available for the XBox 360.

The number of XBox 360 consoles on the market surpasses PS3s by a considerable factor but PS3 has the advantage of it’s Blu-Ray technology being built in, while the HD-DVD add on for the XBox 360 is a seperate upgrade, which has on it’s own sold less units than the PS3. It goes without saying that anyone who buys an HD-DVD drive is actively interested in playing high definition movies with it though the same can’t be said about everyone who buys a PS3 or rather for those people who bought a system with the intention of ebaying it only to learn the market had been saturated.

Thanks to Matt of BoNR fame for the heads up.

2006-01-13 – Update!

According to this article it’s not only the industry that chose to go HD-DVD. Sony also doesn’t want porn on Blu-Ray and doesn’t allow distributors to make porn discs. I guess they’re trying pretty hard to maintain a certain family friendly image.

There’s a new trailer available at the Invincible Iron Man official site, and it gives a decent glimpse of what the story will be like in the movie. It’s an interesting choice of enemies for Iron Man – ancient Chinese elemental creatures? It hardly feels like any sort of a definitive Iron Man story, let alone one worth using in his premiere solo adventure … until you check some of the desktop images at the site, clearly showing classic Iron Man villain Mandarin playing a large role in matters. Not that Mandarin’s role has been a secret mind you – It was in the advertised synopsis since day one. Just makes it all the more odd that he’s being hidden in the trailer.

As for the movie, I’m wondering how we’re going to go through three different armors (initial grey, underwater yellow, and good classic old ketchup-and-mustard, er, red-and-gold) over the course of a single story. I guess only time – 19 days to be exact – will tell.

Also, the Hellboy Animated movie (Sword of Storms) has a sequel due to hit in February, called Blood and Iron. The trailer can be found HERE. According to the Animated Hellboy blog, one of the scenes from the trailer isn’t from the movie; it’s from an “extra special DVD extra”, whatever that might mean. The blog also talks about plans for a third movie to follow this one, but will only be greenlit if DVD sales warrant it.

A press release went out today officially announcing (again?) the release of the first volume (of two) of the New Adventures of He-Man DVDs on December 26, a mere twelve days away.

The set will contain 6 discs packed with 33 remastered episodes, art cards, 2 new documentaries, trailers and a lot more.

I have included the text of the press release after the jump for those interested in the lengthy document detailing what the set offers.
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Children of the 80’s should remember well that there were in fact two cartoons with the name Ghostbusters. The difference being the cartoon based on the hilarious movie franchise was called the Real Ghostbusters. This is not the show we are talking about here. BCI, known for their releases of the original He-Man and She-Ra series, has put out a press release announcing the first box set of Filmation’s Ghostbusters on DVD. This 6 disc set will retail for 39.98 and should be available February 27th. Looks like it will be packed with lots of extras, just don’t expect to see Slimer or Gozer in any of them.

Also of note is that there were 65 episodes in all, so it will be likely that there will be one more set (volume 2) to complete the series.

I have included the lengthy Press Release after the jump.
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We first reported on the Richard Donner Cut way back in July, and today we are pleased to cover the final product!

Show Notes:
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Yesterday, He-man.org posted the following:

On November 9th, we provided you the contact information to BCI in case you had any DVD problems.
Some fans are having a problem with disc 4 from the recent She-Ra: Princess of Power S1V1 release.
BCI has released the following info in regards to that particular issue:

“BCI has recently been alerted to a possible defect with the 4th disc contained within the She-Ra: Princess of Power – Season 1, Volume 1 DVD collection.
We have thoroughly investigated this matter and have determined that the issue, which involves a “freeze” at the layer break of the dual-layered disc, affects approximately 14% of the consumer DVD players out in the market.
We will be replicating new discs and will be able send replacements to anyone who is experiencing problems of this nature.
Please contact Vanessa Baltodano and submit your name and shipping address and we will send out a replacement disc in the coming weeks.
We deeply apologize for any inconvenience this has caused and appreciate the continued support for Ink & Paint and BCI/Eclipse.”

So if you’ve noticed this issue or not, you may want to get the DVD replaced anyway. If you haven’t noticed it, it is just because you have an affected DVD player. Should you want to play it on an affected DVD player, you’ll run into the same issue as mentioned.

A look at the newly released The Transformers The Movie 20th Anniversary Special Edition DVD.