'Blade Runner: The Final Cut' Arrives in Multiple DVD Formats
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Director Ridley Scott's original vision for the groundbreaking sci-fi flick comes out in a baffling array of DVD sets. Luckily, they all capture a bleak future in which uppity androids get popped for becoming self-aware (and there's no narration to kill the mood).
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PC buyers can look forward to DVDs with up to 10 times the storage they now have when Hewlett-Packard rolls out machines supporting next-generation DVD technologies next year.
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NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES  - Time Warner Inc's   Warner Bros studio on Friday said it would exclusively release  high-definition DVDs in Sony Corp's  Blu-ray format,  dealing a big blow to Toshiba Corp's  rival HD DVD  technology.
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Proof finally has come  that DVD has, in fact, entered the mature phase.
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Four Hollywood studios announced that they would release films in the group's high-definition DVD format by the end of next year, an advance in the effort to define a new DVD standard.
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Several movie studios announced plans Thursday to release a handful of films on high-definition DVD in Europe, continuing the slow rollout of the new format worldwide.
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Movie rental giant says it sees a clear enough trend among its customers to pinpoint Blu-ray as its format of choice, adding clarification to the DVD wars.
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(InfoWorld) - Key backers of the new Blu-ray Disc optical storage technology turned out in force at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin to announce a string of content and equipment offerings. The flurry of announcements came as the consumer electronics industry prepares for the important holiday shopping season, when manufacturers typically generate their highest sales. With content crucial to the successful take-upÂ of high-definition players, recorders and game consoles, Hollywood studio executives lined up at a news conference to list the number of movies they plan to launch in the Blu-ray Disc format beginning in November. Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC will release eight movies on Blu-ray in Japan and North America on Nov. 10 and Australia and Europe on Nov. 14, said senior vice president of sales Franco de Cesare. The movies, including "Kingdom of Heaven (Director's Cut)," grossed more than US$2 billion in box office sales. The recommended retail price is $39.98. Warner Home Video, a unit of Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., will release more than 10 Blu-ray Disc titles in several European markets, including France, Germany, Spain and the U.K., according to Stephen Nickerson, senior vice president sales and marketing. Titles will include recent hits such as "Firewall" and "Syriana," and older ones from the extensive Warner Home Video library such as "Full Metal Jacket," "Training Day" and "Space Cowboys." Beginning in October in Europe and Asia, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, a division of Sony Corp., will begin rolling out a broad mix of releases , including "Hitch," "The Exorcism of Emily Rose," "The Fifth Element" and "Hostel," said senior vice president Matt Brown. Paramount Home Entertainment International intends to release "Mission: Impossible III" and "Mission Impossible Trilogy Box Set" on the Blu-ray format this year. "Mission: Impossible III" on Blu-ray will be on two discs and loaded with extras. Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV, which co-invented the CD with Sony Corp. and has collaborated closely with the Japanese manufacturer in the development of Blu-ray, introduced several products supporting the new optical storage format. Philips' BDP9000 Blu-ray Disc player plays back high-definition content in full 1080p resolution. It is designed to connect with HDTV (high-definition television) and HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) devices. In addition to its Showline Media Center MCP9480i, which supports Blu-ray, Philips plans to launch TripleWriter, an all-in-one internal drive for PCs that can record and playback optical formats including CD, DVD and Blu-ray Disc. The product goes on sales next month in the U.S. and Europe. The Blu-ray Disc Association also announced that Sun Microsystems Inc., the creator of Java technology, has joined the consortiumâs board of directors. The IFA runs though Sept. 6.
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To promote the format where the DVD Forum fears to tread?
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THE fight over what&#39;s going to replace your DVDs has heated up as three major movie studios announce support for one of two competing next-generation formats.
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AN ALL-NEW TYPE of media disc, which is to combine the DVD standard with an all-new high definition format, has been developed by Toshiba and Memory-Tech.
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Film studio Twentieth Century Fox announced the first eight movie titles it will publish on the new DVD format called Blu-ray, which also got support from Sun Microsystems and Time Warner.
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In an effort to ease the transition to higher-capacity disc technology, Toshiba and Memory-Tech have developed a dual-layer disc that supports DVD and HD DVD formats.
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One layer of the new disk is in standard DVD format, while the other layer will be in the HD DVD format. Such a combination lets film studios put a movie in DVD format on one side and, on the other, in HD DVD format.
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from LPs to compact discs and from VHS to DVD,&quot; says Jeff Joseph of the Consumer Electronics Association. &quot;High definition
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The popular video rental service casts its vote in the DVD format war.
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Business & money: Sony boosted by decision to release DVDs exclusively on Japanese firm's next-generation recording format