Category Archives: Disc details

Australian Roadshow Blu-ray releases

Posted on August 5, 2008 by Stephen Dawson

Roadshow has sent me a list of its forthcoming Blu-ray releases. Good interesting range of titles there: The Mist N/A 2 October 2008 1408 N/A 2 October 2008 Sex & The City: The Movie $49.95 16 October 2008 Music and … Continue reading →

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Packaging errors on Blu-ray discs

Posted on July 29, 2008 by Stephen Dawson

I use AnyDVD HD to help me analyse DVDs, Blu-ray discs and HD DVDs. However it hasn’t been of as much help with determining the region codes of Blu-ray discs as it has been with DVDs. I raised this on … Continue reading →

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Warner Blu-ray releases

Posted on July 28, 2008 by Stephen Dawson

For some reason I fell out of contact with Warner Bros for a while, but have now reestablished contact. This evening they sent me a few press releases. First, they’ve got a two-for-$50 promotion on Blu-ray going from Wednesday until … Continue reading →

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Disc Database

Posted on July 8, 2008 by Stephen Dawson

One of the things I’ve been doing since not long after the introduction of the DVD has been building a database in Microsoft Access of details relating to discs. I’ve added additional fields over the years to allow for bits … Continue reading →

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Restored Godfathers

Posted on June 30, 2008 by Stephen Dawson

I’ve just received a press release from Paramount Pictures Australia announcing the release on 7 August 2008 of remastered and restored versions of The Godfather, The Godfather: Part II, and The Godfather: Part III DVDs. They will be available individually, … Continue reading →

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Paramount returns to Blu-ray!

Posted on May 15, 2008 by Stephen Dawson

Those with longish memories may recall that when Blu-ray and HD DVD started, two studios were open minded. Warner Bros eventually (ie. this year) decided to go Blu-ray only, while Paramount was allegedly paid a significant sum last year to … Continue reading →

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Remastering pays off

Posted on November 30, 2007 by Stephen Dawson

Some months ago I did a comparison spread for Sound and Image magazine on the differences between Blu-ray and HD DVD picture quality. To be frank, some of the BDs I compared with rather disappointing. One such was The Fifth … Continue reading →

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Weirder Blu-ray

Posted on November 25, 2007 by Stephen Dawson

I didn’t actually watch Die Hard 4.0 (known to Americans as Live Free or Die Hard) the other day when I received it. But on Friday I spoke to Pioneer about this Blu-ray disc’s behaviour in its BDP-LX70A player. I … Continue reading →

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Sloppy Post Production in Kingdom of Heaven?

Posted on June 17, 2007 by Stephen Dawson

When I was on the scrounge for Blu-ray discs last year (it’s difficult reviewing Blu-ray players when you don’t have any discs), I hassled various movie distributors until they shot a few my way. One company to come through was … Continue reading →

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So, is Blu-ray really any better than DVD?

Posted on November 19, 2006 by Stephen Dawson

Well, judging by the detail of the pictures shown to the right, it most certainly looks like Blu-ray is much better than DVD. The discs concerned are the Region 4 DVD of A Knight’s Tale and the Blu-ray version thereof. … Continue reading →

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