Universal Enhances Bonus Content On Physical Discs
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment is making its bid to preserve the attraction of physical media and home media ownership by adding new bonus feature enhancements to its Ultra HD Blu-ray, Blu-ray Disc and DVD titles. Beginning with the release of horror film Us on June…
New Fox Disc To Support Dolby Vision And HDR10+
Now under control of Disney, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment this week played Switzerland in its handling of the dynamic metadata HDR profile competition by announcing the upcoming release of the 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray disc of Fox’s CGI animated sci-fi title Alita: Battle Angel….
DEG: Q1 Growth Continued In Content Spending, 4K Products
Consumers continued to up their spending on movie and television content during the first quarter of 2019, with dollar totals reaching $6 billion, up 6.4% from the $5.7 billion tallied over the first three months of 2018, according to data released by the Digital Entertainment…
Does Samsung’s Blu-ray Withdrawl Doom Discs?
Despite the recently announced decision by Samsung to end further introductions of Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray players in the U.S. market, companies still supporting the formats tell HD Guru that physical media, and specifically 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray, isn’t dead yet. Conversely, more pessimistic…
Associations Converge To Promote UHD TV
Three different multi-industry trade associations with deep interests in expanding the Ultra HD market and ecosystem recently converged on CES 2019 to update the industry on some of the accomplishments they’ve achieved and plans they have made to further the popularity of in home AV…
Review: `2001: A Space Odyssey’ 4K Release The Best Yet
After several delays, the much-anticipated release of the 50th Anniversary 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray special edition release of Stanley Kubrick’s and Arthur C. Clarke’s sci-fi classic 2001: A Space Odyssey hits stores (and perhaps your mailbox) today (Dec. 18th). It was worth the wait. The…
DEG To Award Director Christopher Nolan For 4K Ultra HD Support
The Digital Entertainment Group (DEG) said Friday that it will present its inaugural Vanguard Award to director Christopher Nolan at the 4K Ultra HD Summit it is producing in conjunction with the Ultra HD Alliance Nov. 6th in Los Angeles. Nolan, who directed such blockbusters…
Microsoft Joins Movies Anywhere Content Locker Camp
Good news for Xbox fans and owners of Windows 10 computer products. Microsoft has joined the Movies Anywhere digital movie locker program that is gradually replacing the UltraViolet for content access across distribution services. Unlike UltraViolet, Movies Anywhere uses Disney’s digital Key Chest encryption system…
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