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Bore Your Great, Great, Great, Great, Great Grandchildren
- By sandv blog
- Posted June 17, 2008
The year is 2208. The bad news: the earth is so toxic that even intergalactic invaders avoid the planet like the plague, which in fact is rampant here.

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Sleeping Beauty Wakes Up to BD-Live
- By sandv blog
- Posted June 13, 2008
The long-awaited addition of BD-Live features to Blu-ray releases is over. Well, the wait will be over soon. Disney has previewed the BD-Live functionality on Sleeping Beauty at a recent conference in Hollywood. Word is it looks good.

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Sucking Up to Blu, In a Bad Way
- By sandv blog
- Posted June 12, 2008
As you'll recall, Paramount came up a loser in the HD DVD/Blu-ray battle. Its exclusive support for HD DVD proved to be as adept as the $100 I put on Big Brown at Belmont. DFL, as they say. Anyway, Paramount is now embracing its inner Blu — kind of. Its first BD movies were released on May 20 (with the corpse of poor HD DVD still warm in its grave).

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Warner Bros. Slashing Movies, Pushing Blu
- By sandv blog
- Posted June 11, 2008
Interesting times in Hollywood. As movie budgets grow and grow, Warner Bros. has announced they're cutting the number of films they'll produce in half for 2009. Where's their money gonna come from?

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Blue Movies Go Blu
- By sandv blog
- Posted June 10, 2008
Most folks acknowledge that a certain faction of the video industry fueled the rapid growth of both VHS technology and more recently, DVD Video.

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Blu-ray Positive Trends
- By sandv blog
- Posted June 9, 2008
German manufacturer Singulus was quite excited at their annual general meeting last week. Singulus is the market leader of optical disc production equipment. In other words, they make the machines that make Blu-ray discs.

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Sony: HD Movie Downloads a Fad?
- By sandv blog
- Posted June 9, 2008
Talk about optimism. Howard Stringer, CEO of Sony, is quoted in The New York Times saying that he thinks that Blu-ray discs don't need to worry about digital downloads. What planet is he living on?

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ray, Blu-ray
- By sandv blog
- Posted June 6, 2008
Great wines, fine food, fabulous fashion. What else is fierce about France? Fox/MGM has reportedly announced that they will be releasing six James Bond flics on Blu-ray in November in France. The first six titles are (rumored to included) From Russia with Love, For Your Eyes Only, Dr No, Thunderball, Live or Let Die, and Die Another Day.

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Blu-ray Glass Half Full?
- By sandv blog
- Posted June 3, 2008
It's all a matter of perspective.

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DVDPlay Brings Blu-ray to Kiosks
- By sandv blog
- Posted May 30, 2008
What's your grocery list look like? Milk, butter-pecan ice cream, bread, butter, blueberries, Blu-ray. Blu-ray??? Starting in June, DVDPlay is going to be offering Blu-ray discs right along side standard DVD in their standalone rental kiosks. They're the first rental kiosk to offer Blu-ray. You haven't seen these kiosks yet?

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FUZE Gets Blu
- By sandv blog
- Posted May 23, 2008
How embarrassing. You have the latest and greatest FUZE whole-home media system, and since the advent of Blu-ray, it's obsolete. Mortifying, if you ask me.

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Has The Whole Grain Trend Gone Too Far?
- By sandv blog
- Posted May 22, 2008
The very thing that people love about Blu-ray could very well be the thing that people are going to hate. For the first time, home theaters are able to display every single, subtle detail of your favorite old films, as they've only been visible before in theaters. Part of that detail is film grain. And people are not happy.

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