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Warner Bros. Cutting Blu-ray Movie Prices This Fall

Is this is it? The beginning of decent Blu-ray movie prices? Warner Bros. is going cut prices on a smorgasbord of Blu-ray movies for retailers in September (some as low as $11), meaning you should see the them slide at least a couple of bucks. More »

1:20 PM on Mon Jul 14 2008
By matt buchanan
5,460 views, 18 comments

batman

Batman Begins Now Out on Blu-ray

Batman Begins, the one HD DVD that we've been waiting to get on Blu-ray, has finally made it. It's Batman. It's Blu-ray. You want it. Buy it now. Get tickets for The Dark Knight. It's Batman! Buy this goddamn movie! BATMAN!! [Amazon]

3:30 AM on Thu Jul 10 2008
By Jason Chen
2,121 views, 25 comments

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First Warner Bros. BD-Live Discs to Arrive in Christmas Stockings

Warner, the studio that sunk HD DVD's ship as it climbed aboard Blu-ray's, will be one of the slowest to jump on BD-Live, Blu-ray's online interactive content. Its BD-Live discs will arrive around Christmastime, with features like real-time viewing (?), a search engine, library access, and a recommendation tool—all pretty boring compared to Fox's BD-Live plans, which include a multiplayer game for Alien vs. Predator. None of the titles are named yet, but hopefully they come up with something more awesome for The Dark Knight, which would be hitting around that time. [High-Def Digest]

11:58 AM on Mon Jun 23 2008
By matt buchanan
1,307 views, 5 comments

Latest by dontforget: (i wasn't sure how to spell that, but my intentions were to agree with you) more »

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Apple to Sell Movies on DVD Release Day, Confirmed

It's confirmed. Apple will release all new movies from 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Lionsgate, Image Entertainment and First Look Studios on the same day as their DVD release, for $14.99. Full press release after the jump.
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8:44 AM on Thu May 1 2008
By Jesus Diaz
8,223 views, 32 comments

Latest by n/a: There's no way I'm paying the same for a DRM crippled, compressed and overall crappy version of a movie as what I can pay a couple buck more for the same thing on a tangible DVD. Maybe Redbox has ruined me, more »

home entertainment

Warner Bros. to Release Movies for Apple TV and On Demand Same Day as DVD

The format war over, and Blu-ray safely enthroned as the victor, Warner can now turn its sights beyond—to downloads and the infinite format war. Time Warner's chief executive announced today that Warner Bros. will release movies for on-demand systems like Comcast's and Apple TV on the same day they are released on DVD from now on. More »

5:26 PM on Wed Apr 30 2008
By matt buchanan
3,028 views, 24 comments

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Watch Full Episodes of Friends, Scooby Doo and The Batman Online for Free

Warner Bros. is jumping into the online video arena next month with a pair of sites, thewb.com and kidswb.com, which will show full episodes of its biggest series, like Friends and Smallville on the former, and stuff like Bugs Bunny, Scooby Doo and Batman (hopefully Paul Dini's brilliant and amazing original animated series, not The Mediocre Batman) on the latter. It'd probably have made more sense for them to join Hulu, but Warner's probably not keen on splitting the ad dollars. If there's enough content, it could become a real destination, but we're guessing you'll still have to go to YouTube for "Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarves." [Yahoo]

3:17 PM on Mon Apr 28 2008
By matt buchanan
16,350 views, 14 comments

Latest by Worf: Is this some US only thing again? Quit tempting the rest of the world with your legal video options while we have ot use BitTorrent to grab our shows! more »

format war

Stop! Why It Still Isn't Safe to Buy Blu-ray

By now you know waaaaay too much about Toshiba's format-war surrender, the death of HD DVD at the hands of the larger Blu-ray armada. You may even be eying the Blu-ray players mounted proudly in point-of-sale displays at Best Buy or Wal-Mart. Pricing hasn't come down to HD DVD player levels—and with those sinking even further, it's unlikely they ever will—but the need to get in on the action might provoke you to spend some extra dimes. All we're saying is DON'T! Not yet. If you don't know why, let us explain. More »

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11:35 AM on Thu Feb 28 2008
By Wilson Rothman
77,185 views, 121 comments

Latest by n/a: They should build a high end ps3 for people who are willing to spend the extra money on better parts, since typically a ps3 should be equivelent to a far less expensive blue ray player since it's got all those more »

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Harry Potter Blu-ray Includes Unintended HD DVD

The hi def DVD industry never fails to disappoint. Because now even the consumers who are versed in the differences between Blu-ray and HD DVD—those who can tell a blue box from a red one with ease—are also getting shat on by a mixed up industry. Numerous reports have surfaced that a new $100+ Harry Potter box set has a fourth disc in HD DVD format—that's Goblet of Fire for those interested. It looks like even Warner Bros' conservative route of supporting both formats has its risks. [tgdaily]

10:54 AM on Fri Dec 14 2007
By Mark Wilson
13,112 views, 35 comments

Latest by n/a: @Pope John Peeps II: You're right, sexual maturity is not emotional maturity. That is part of the point i was trying to make. As you stated it, you yourself would have no problem with having sex with a 15 year more »

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Rumor: Warner Bros. Going All Blu-ray at CES

Following up on the rumor that Warner Bros. was going exclusively Blu-ray from October, BusinessWeek has their own speculation that Warner Bros. will be swapping to the Sony side. The rumor stems from a quote from Lionsgate vice-chairman Michael Burns (who may or may not know what he thinks he knows) who says "The rumor is Warner is coming aboard soon." Not much else substantiates this rumor other than the quote, but who knows, maybe Burns knows someone calling the Blu-ray/HD DVD shots over at Warner. [BusinessWeek]

2:20 PM on Fri Dec 7 2007
By Jason Chen
4,370 views, 49 comments

Latest by n/a: And actually, if Warner was considering this, the LAST thing the Blu camp would be doing would be talking about it. It would just happen, like the Paramount thing did. I can't think of anything more likely to screw up more »

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Warner Bros. Considering Blu-ray Exclusivity

Warner Bros., the last major studio supporting both Blu-ray and HD DVD formats, may be ditching HD DVD to bet on Blu-ray. (Take that, Paramount.) Even in the wake of a sub-$199 HD DVD player, Warner Home Video VP Dan Silverberg had this to say about the company's outlook on the format wars:

One thing that may be changing is our strategy...When both formats launched and hardware prices were high, we made a decision to support both formats and let the consumer decide.
OK, so what about now? More »

9:23 AM on Tue Oct 30 2007
By Mark Wilson
11,086 views, 32 comments

Latest by kydrice: @jmm36: The right choice? They were paid 150 million to join they didn't make any choice but to go to the bank to cash in their check. The deal was only for 18 months too , enough to last them through more »

The format wars continue. According to the LA Times, Toshiba Corp. is wining and dining Warner Bros. to get the movie studio on the HD-DVD bandwagon exclusively. Sony is apparently doing the same for Blu-Ray — meaning WB will soon be able to literally bathe all of their employees in money. [LA Times via FiringSquad]

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Hollywood to Beam Digital Films to Movie Theaters

Nothing sucks more than being shut out of a movie premiere just cause you didn't make it to the box office on time. Well, Universal Pictures and Warner Bros. are teaming up with Digital Cinema Implementation Partners to make that scenario a thing of the past. They want to give theaters the ability to play popular movies on extra screens by changing the way movies are delivered. So rather than have hard copies of films at theaters, the films would be delivered instantly... More »

9:21 AM on Tue Mar 6 2007
By Louis Ramirez
5,231 views, 28 comments

Latest by namlu: The Pavilion Theater here in Park Slope BK was one of the testing sights for satellite downloaded movies. It's pretty sweet... more »

home entertainment

BitTorrent Makes Deal with Devil, Video Downloads to Ensue

Peer-to-peer software developer BitTorrent, Inc. must be getting nervous, going all legal-like on us with a video downloading deal with 20th Century Fox, Paramount, Lionsgate, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, MTV, Palm Pictures, G4, Kadokawa and Stars Media. More »

4:26 PM on Wed Nov 29 2006
By Charlie White
6,462 views, 15 comments

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Warner Bros. to Use BitTorrent to Distribute Movies

The BitTorrent peer-to-peer system as for warez, right? Not according to Warner Bros. Entertainment Group, which signed a deal to start using BitTorrent this summer to distribute movies and television shows. According to BitTorrent officials, the Warner moviemakers are fascinated with the filesharing technology. The company plans to release movies on BitTorrent the same day those titles are shipped on DVD. Says Kevin Tsujihara, president of the Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group:
"If we can convert 5, 10, 15 percent of the peer-to-peer users that have been obtaining our product from illegitimate sources to becoming legitimate buyers of our product, that has the potential of a huge impact on our industry and our economics."

But we're thinking these movies and TV shows will be so completely wrapped up in DRM it might be a problem unraveling it all once you get them onto your hard drive. The movies and shows will reportedly be available for as little as one dollar, but even at that low cost, it's still going to be hard to compete with free. More »

8:27 AM on Tue May 9 2006
By Charlie White
1,272 views, 9 comments

Latest by agordon86: Woo Hoo! I would happily pay 1 dollar for a legit copy of a movie (particularly ones that are hard to find locally)... the way I figure it is, it'll be legit and the downloads will be fast and reliable. Although the more »