Category: Blu-Ray
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“Branded” from Lionsgate Films – A Review
The movie Branded from Lionsgate Films is what would happen if John Cassavettes directed Ghostbusters with a script by AdBusters
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Sony blocks content on Xbox 360 – The fallout of HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray persists
I have now mentioned in two posts that the exclusive arrangement between Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Netflix which affords the viewer realtime HD video on demand streaming of over ten thousand titles, would pose a real threat to Sony and overpriced Blu-Ray. Well Sony has demonstrated this to be true by blocking its (Columbia) catalog…
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Xbox and Netflix Team Up – Still Waving that Blu-Ray Banner SONY?
From xbox.com: “At E3, Microsoft and Netflix, the world’s largest online movie rental service, today unveiled an exclusive partnership to offer the ability to instantly stream movies and TV episodes from Netflix to your television via Xbox 360®.” Netflix recently introduced its Watch Instantly program that allows subscribers to view selected (that is, the titles…
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Blu-Ray vs. HD DVD – the end of another format war
Here at the Culturepin I provide a form of virtual safari through the bleeding edge landscape of the world and contemporary society. Suffice to say it is a treacherous terrain filled with uncertainty and conflict that requires a certain mad bravery to traverse. Even more treacherous is attempting to predict what will unfold around the…