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Comment by Spindaddydad on January 22, 2009 at 6:29am

Blu-ray Reaches New Price Low

The EngadgetHD folks have spotlighted that the Nebraska Furniture Mart, is offering a Memorex Blu-ray model for $100, and they will ship it for $10 more. Perhaps some mainstream retailers will follow suit. Then again, it appears to be sold out, so take note Best Buy.

Comment by Spindaddydad on January 12, 2009 at 7:19pm

Fox Announces Easter Promotion Includes New Blu-ray Titles and Pricing

Fox has just announced an Easter Promotion that includes family oriented titles at a special price.

The promotion apparently includes some new animated Blu-ray titles.

The press release indicates a promotional price point of only $19.98 retail - half the price of many Fox / MGM Blu-ray titles.

While Alvin and the Chipmunks is already available, new Blu-ray titles Anastasia, Ferngully and Secret of Nimh are listed in the promotion as ‘Family Fun Editions’.

Comment by Spindaddydad on January 8, 2009 at 7:18am

Check out this sleek new player from Samsung:

More info: www.blurayfreak.com/2009/01/samsung-produce.html

Comment by Spindaddydad on January 7, 2009 at 3:30pm

Warner Announces Batman Anthology Blu-ray Box Set

Warner has finally announced the Batman Anthology (1989 - 1997) for Blu-ray release, covering the Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher Batman movies.

While Euroland appears to be getting single disc releases of these four titles, the US is getting them all in a box set - so no way to avoid the hideous movie Batman & Robin.

Extras include over 18 hours of special features including documentaries from Directors Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher, deleted scenes and music videos!

Retail is expected to be $129.95 and the set is due out March 10th 2009.

Comment by Spindaddydad on January 7, 2009 at 3:29pm

JVC Blu-Ray comes to the USA

JVC have used the CES tradeshow in Las Vegas to announce the decision to bring their Blu-ray products to the USA. JVC Blu-ray has proved popular in Europe and Asia, especially with the manufacturer's competitive pricing, and up until now, the USA has had to admire them from afar, but starting from March anyone who wants to will be able to snap one up on home soil.

March sees the release of the XV-BP1 player - a first not only for the States, but JVC too - featuring profile 2.0 for BD Live, playback of the JVC-used AVCHD format, HDMI v1.3 with Deep and x.v. colour plus support for Dolby True HD, DTS and DTS HD. A retail price of a touch under $300 has been suggested.

Comment by Spindaddydad on January 7, 2009 at 3:27pm

Ghostbusters Announced for Blu-ray

Sony Pictures Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has announced that they will bring 'Ghostbusters' to Blu-ray for the 25th Anniversary of the film on June 16th. The film, which has recently received new transfers for both video and audio, will be presented in 2.20:1 1080p AVC accompanied by a 5.1 Dolby TrueHD soundtrack.

Comment by Spindaddydad on January 6, 2009 at 11:15am

Thanks, Baff. Always a work in progress. If you have any other ideas feel free to let me know.

Comment by Baff on January 6, 2009 at 11:03am

Thanks for taking control of the group and fixing up this page Spin, it is much better now. I hated only being able to see 3 forum posts. Lots of great info at our fingertips now.

Comment by Spindaddydad on January 4, 2009 at 8:19pm

Interesting statistics for Blu-Ray:

Back in April 2008, the market share for the top 20 titles versus DVD averaged 5.5%, while the December average was 12%.

The revenue for May was around $34M, while in November Blu-ray earned over $60M, almost double the May earnings, and of course the December revenues are already $130M for the first three weeks.

Comment by Spindaddydad on January 2, 2009 at 7:56am

Engadget has the following predictions for Blu-Ray for 2009:

1) Blu-ray player prices will reach $79 before the year's end.
2) First medium-to-large OLED TV will ship to consumers.
3) SED will still be spinning its wheels.
4) HTPCs will become all but forgotten as media streamers and BD decks gain functionality.
5) Wireless HD will still remain insignificant to the general populace.
6) A consumer-level 2K flat-panel will see development.
7) Mayhem will ensue on or around February 17, 2009.
8) 3D HDTVs will reach critical mass at the consumer level, material will still be tough to acquire.
9) 720p video recording will appear on several cellphones.
10) Blu-ray players will be able to effectively replace HD streamers / HTPCs by having access to networked media, Hulu, Netflix Watch Instantly and the entire world of internet-based content.

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