avzombie.com

Exclusive review: Quantum of Solace is a Blu-ray blockbuster, but Bond’s package could be better | Home Cinema Choice There’s no doubt about it. Kids are influenced by movies, but not always in the way you expect. While watching the Blu-ray of Quantum of Solace with my son (click the link above to read the [...]

[Read more →]

Home Cinema Choice 166 now on sale The latest issue of Home Cinema Choice is on sale and even if I say so myself, it’s a  corker. There’s no shortage of interesting reviews, plus coverage from CES 2009 and (ironically) my in-depth preview (sic) of Pioneer’s next generation of Kuro picture processing technology, codenamed Fuga. [...]

[Read more →]

Shiver me timbers! The animated piratical story-within-a-story spin-off from the upcoming Watchmen movie, Tales of the Black Freighter, will be released on Blu-ray March 24 with BD Live features that might actually be worth looking at. In addition to exclusive live-action Watchmen footage not featured in the theatrical cut of the movie, the disc will [...]

[Read more →]

It’s no secret that Sony ran an X-Files division back in the Nineties, charged with looking for possible avenues of paranormal product development, including extra sensory perception, remote viewing and Qi (metabolic) energy. Now I’m beginning to wonder if rival Panasonic has its own crystal ball division. Why else would it have ordered the families [...]

[Read more →]

Japanese financial experts predict Pioneer about to bail out of TV business, Kuro can’t compete | Home Cinema Choice If this news turns out to be accurate, and I have no reason to suspect it won’t, then it’s a bit of a heart-breaker. Pioneer has been pushing the envelope in TV picture quality since its [...]

[Read more →]

Do you buy Blu-rays for music or movies? The answer is obviously the latter, but some folks want you to say the former. Recently, I attended a very nice presentation held by the British Video Association at the London recording studio Metropolis. The point of the event was to stress how music on Blu-ray could/should [...]

[Read more →]

Newsarama.com : Disney Brings X-Men Animated Series to DVD Talk about weird and wonderful team-ups. The Saban/Fox animated version of The X-Men has been acquired by Disney and is due out on R1 DVD April 28. The long-running show, which made its debut in ’92 and lasted five years, is the most authentic of all [...]

[Read more →]

Newsarama.com : Caprica to Debut on DVD 04.21.09 Feeling anxious about the looming end of Battlestar Galactica? Well, the good news is that Caprica, the prequel will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on April 21. Unusually, Universal is releasing the feature-length prequel as a limited-edition uncut and unrated version before the series’ broadcast premiere [...]

[Read more →]