The rock vs stone cold wrestlemania 15

The rock vs stone cold wrestlemania 15

so, the equate more production of blu-rays to sales? Sorry, production and actual sales figures are not the same thing. No more comments on this story. Add your own! All first up here at The Bits today, our own Russell Hammond has once again updated the Release Dates Artwork section with all the latest Blu-ray, DVD and Video Game cover art and pre-order links. As always, a portion of ANYTHING you order from Amazon after clicking to them through our links goes to help support our work here at the site and we REALLY do appreciate it. Now it took a little while to finish, given all of the elaborate content and extras on the set, but Ive finally just posted my full and in-depth review of Foxs 3-disc James Camerons Avatar: Extended Collectors Edition Blu-ray due in stores on 11/16! So is it worth the upgrade from the previous movie-only BD? Yes, especially if youre a serious fan. The new versions of the film and the deleted scenes are well worth seeing all on their own, and there are extensive bonus features two full BD discs worth in all. Even casual fans will grow to appreciate this film more by watching the documentaries and featurettes included here. The 3D process is arguably the least impressive of the numerous technical achievements that happened during this films production, and thats saying something. For you detail fans, there are scripts, the Pandorapedia and extensive art galleries. And all of the sets content looks great in full HD. There are a couple of minor omissions, but on the whole the set is absolutely worth your time and money this holiday season, so do check it out. Enjoy! Also, in announcement news today, Warner Home Video has FINALLY set John Boormans long-awaited Excalibur for Blu-ray release on 3/8/ The title, which had previously appeared on HD-DVD, will include all the extras from the DVD release, including audio commentary by Boorman and the films trailer. Id say thats about enough for the moment. Ill be back to the rock vs stone cold wrestlemania 15 in with additional release news tomorrow. Ive got a few more bits of information for you from last weeks Blu-Con conference, and then Ive got to get working on a major Blu-ray review that I hope to post later this evening or early tomorrow morning. I hope you all had the chance to check out the video of my panel discussion from Blu-Con on bringing classic films to Blu-ray. See Fridays post. Those of you interested in the topic will be very pleased to learn that, in one-on-one discussions with many of the studio reps on hand at the event, I was told almost across the board that 2011 is going to see significant increases in efforts to deliver deeper catalog titles and classic films on the Blu-ray format. The general belief among studio decision-makers seems to be that were now crossing a threshold or tipping point for the market. Catalog sales are increasing reportedly double-digit growth and enough Blu-ray players are now in the hands of consumers to warrant greater catalog efforts. I dont think its any mistake that studios like Universal have recently stepped up their catalog BD efforts, and I would expect that trend to continue from all the major studios going forward. Certainly, the recent announcement that the Star Wars films are coming to the format next year can only help encourage this. Now then, during the afternoon session at Blu-Con, Andy Parsons SVP of Pioneer Electronics and chair of the Blu-ray Disc Associations Promotions Committee gave a presentation on the current state of the Blu-ray format that included some statistics and information I thought you might all be interested to hear. Andy was kind enough to provide me with a copy of his report Thanks, Andy!, so here at the By the end of 2010, there are expected to be 25 million households with TV-connected Blu-ray playback devices, including stand-alone players and PS Source: Adams Media Research Considering that there are currently some 115 million TV households estimated by Neilsen, that means Blu-ray is installed in over 1/5 and is the rock vs stone cold wrestlemania 15 1/4 of all TV households. The adoption curve for Blu-ray is fairly consistent with that of DVD in its first 5 years there were roughly about 30 million DVD players in homes at the end of the same period, including stand-alone players and PS By 2015, Blu-ray format penetration is expected to hit 45% in the, with some 20% of that capacity BD3D capable. There are currently over 3, 000 Blu-ray software titles available in the States. At the same time, the unit sales numbers for Blu-ray software are effectively doubling every year. This year, theyre up 116%, or 94% for 200 Source: Adams Media Research BD player sales in Europe are increasing steadily as well, with a current 9 million installed players today, and a projected 7 million installed by 20 Source: Futuresource Consulting BD players also dominate in Japan 65% of all videodisc hardware in the country is Blu-ray, compared to 35% standard DVD. Source: GfK Japan On the Blu-ray 3D front, 19 models of BD3D player are now available, with more due at CES. The expectation is that by the end of next year, anyone buying a new, affordable Blu-ray player model will have a hard time finding one that DOESNT have 3D capability. Currently, there are 8 million 3D HDTVs in the, compared to 3 million regular HDTVs.