Archive for the 'Movies' Category

More News From The Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD Format War

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

DiscChad’s News has previously discussed the Blu-Ray/HD-DVD format war, but we thought it worth noting that Blu-Ray has recently received an unexpected vote of confidence. Thieves broke into a video store and stole the entire stock of Blu-Ray discs while ignoring the HD-DVD section.

Link: http://www.engadget.com/…
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Second Terminator Trilogy In The Works

Monday, May 21st, 2007

TerminatorAccording to this article there are plans for an additional three Terminator movies, although they won’t include Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Link: http://www.darkhorizons.com/…
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Release Date Announced For Indiana Jones IV

Monday, February 12th, 2007

MoviesThursday, May 22, 2008 is the official release date for Indiana Jones IV. This, despite the fact they haven’t started filming and don’t even have a complete script. Also, there is some question as to whether or not Sean Connery will be reprising his role as Jones’ father. And, to top it all off, Harrison Ford has threatened to pull out of the project because he may not be allowed to use a real whip.

Link: http://www.indianajones.com/…

DMCA And Fair Use Do Not Mix

Saturday, November 18th, 2006

GavelThis is an insightful article about the clash between fair use and the DMCA. The MPAA is suing a company that will copy your DVD to an iPod for you. The MPAA contends that circumventing the DVD copy protection is illegal, and that users must re-purchase the movie via the iTunes store in order to watch it on an iPod. The worst part is that they may be right.

Link: http://arstechnica.com/…

Spiderman 3 Trailer

Friday, November 10th, 2006

Movies

Even though the movie won’t in theaters until next May, the full trailer for Spiderman 3 has been released. Looks like the movie will be another good one. You can view the trailer at the linked site, but I suggest directly downloading the 480p HD version from here (67MB).

http://www.retrocrush.com/…
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Three Formats, One Disc

Friday, September 22nd, 2006

Disc

Can’t decide between DVD, Blu-Ray, or HD-DVD? Researchers have developed technology that can combine all three on one disc.

http://today.reuters.com/…

Disney Hits Jackpot With iTunes

Thursday, September 21st, 2006

Apple

In the first week or so after making 75 of its movies available on iTunes, Disney sold an impressive 125,000 copies. Total revenue was $1 million.

http://playlistmag.com/…

How It Should Have Ended

Friday, September 15th, 2006

Movies

If you haven’t seen it before, the “How It Should Have Ended” web site has short, animated videos of how various movies should have ended. There are quite a few that I don’t particularly like (e.g., ‘Saving Private Ryan‘), but the ‘Lord of the Rings‘ and ‘Star Wars‘ clips are hysterical (and ‘Superman‘ isn’t too bad either).

http://www.howitshouldhaveended.com/…

Is The Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD War Over?

Monday, July 10th, 2006

HDTV

This really comes as no surprise to me. The DVD-R vs. DVD+R format war was resolved by simply making the players compatible with both formats, and now Ricoh has managed to do the same with HD-DVD and Blu-ray. Expect to see a lot more dual-format players.

http://arstechnica.com/…

Blu-ray Has Arrived

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

HDTV

If you blinked, you may have missed it, but the first Blu-ray movies were released last week, with the first Blu-ray player released a few days later. Initial impressions of the Samsung player were underwhelming, as was the review of one of the few available movies. Expect players to get better and cheaper, and ditto with the movies. We’re in the midst of a format war between Toshiba’s HD-DVD and Sony’s Blu-ray, but as far as I can tell, the general level of apathy over this subject is pretty high.

Real-Life Fight Club

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

Fight Club Soap

I really enjoyed the Fight Club movie, once a roommate convinced me to watch it. (The previews did the movie an injustice.) Now we’re seeing life imitate art with the advent of real-life fight clubs. The linked article details one such club in Silicon Valley where tech workers compose the group. As weird as it may sound, this makes a lot of sense to me, and the concept holds a certain attraction.

http://www.usatoday.com/…
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Digital Projectors Gaining Popularity In Theaters

Saturday, May 20th, 2006

Movies

As of this time last year, Colorado had exactly one theater with digital projection. It must be a 2K or less projector, because I was able to see pixellation in Attack of the Clones (I was sitting in the first row of the stadium seating section). Here’s hoping digital projection comes into widespread use.

http://www.businessweek.com/…