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Sony to Drop Blu-ray Player Pricing Just in Time for…Halloween Season?!

Back to School Season is winding down, and everybody who lives by the Target Calendar knows that Halloween Season is next. And just in time for that, Sony’s lowering its pricing on Blu-ray players, according to HD Guru. In anticipation of the release of a new, higher-end player, the BDP-S550, Sony will be lowering pricing [...]

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Samsung Releases $500 BD-P2550 Blu-ray Player, In Best Buy Stores Now

To be honest, we would rather have heard about a new Samsung Blu-ray player that’s $100 cheaper than the BD-P1500, not $100 more expensive. On the other hand, the new player, in stores now, does have 7.1 channel Dolby TrueHD lossless audio output, USB and ethernet jacks, HDMI-CEC and is compatible with MPEG2, VC-1 and [...]

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Like Smiling? Is Smiling Your Favorite? Then This Should Make You Happy :)

Yesss! Elf is coming to Blu-Ray before Christmas, woohoo! Sure, the ending’s a bit botched, what with James Caan’s Walter Hobbs suddenly “coming around” to the idea of having Christmas spirit for no good reason (other than it was time to end the movie), but that aside, this is a must-watch during the holidays. And any [...]

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Casino Royale Blu-Ray Double Dip. Shocking, Positively Shocking.

Ok, so maybe that line doesn’t go with this movie, but the film does bear the distinction of being the first Blu-Ray double-dip, having already been released on the format previously. The new disc will sport hours of new features, BD-Live content and an e-ticket for the next Bond film, Quantum of Solace. I’m not [...]

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LG To Release Netflix-Streaming Blu-Ray Player, Sony Heard Crying

Tonight LG officially introduced their BD300 Blu-Ray player with Netflix streaming, which does exactly what you’d think it does: It plays Blu-Ray movies. It let’s you watch streamed movies from Netflix. It makes you the coolest person on your block. More after the clicky thingie…

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New Acer Laptops Great for Gaming, Breaking Backs, Shutting Down Tractor Beams

First there was the conference table that the Galactic Empire tried to sneak into our office. Then there was the mouse that they thought they could get us with on our very own desktop. Well now our revenge is at hand. Acer’s just released their Gemstone Blue line of desktop replacement-class laptops, including the 8920G, [...]

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Blu-Ray Announcements for July 10, 2008

Today’s Blu-Ray announcements include:

The Visitor from Anchor Bay (October)
Made of Honor from Sony (September)
Redbelt also from Sony (August)
Dude, Where’s My Car? from MGM (August)

From High Def Digest

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Blu-Ray Announcements for July 9, 2008

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Today we learned that the following are coming to Blu-Ray:

Sex and the City (the film, not the show) from New Line (September)
Halloween (the Rob Zombie remake) from Weinstein (October)

From High Def Digest

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Blu-Ray Announcements for July 8, 2008

New titles announced today include:

88 Minutes from Sony (September)
Romancing The Stone from Fox (October)
The Jewel of the Nile also from Fox (October)
The Final Countdown from Blue Underground (October)

From High Def Digest

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Blu-Ray Announcements for July 7, 2008

Well, after a long and pleasant, if not hectic, holiday weekend, we’re back, and so is High Def Digest, with more Blu-Ray announcements, including:

X-Files: Fight the Future, from Fox (no date set)
X-Files: I Want to Believe, also from Fox (again with the no date set)
A Christmas Story, from Warner, in a new “Ultimate Collector’s Edition” [...]

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