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You've seen the glorious, crystal clear footage from the first Star Trek: The Next Generations Blu-Ray collection. And now a handful of Star Trek: TNG gifs have been uploaded, beautifully demonstrating the amazing transformation Captain Picard and his crew have made from blurry to Blu-Ray. More »
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If the Star Wars Blu-rays were a theatrical release, they'd be the biggest movie of the week, or possibly the month. As it is, they're just a record-breaking sales monster. The Blu-ray set has taken in $84 million worldwide in its first week, selling about 515,000 copies. That makes it the best selling Blu-ray title of all time. Apparently fans weren't too deterred by those much-ballyhooed changes to the films, after all. [THR and Washington Post] More »
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Tomorrow, George Lucas will release the entire Star Wars saga onto Blu-ray — but it won't be the versions you saw in theaters, because Lucas can't stop tinkering. Instead of furiously shaking our fists over the newly re-dubbed Vader screams, we've decided to be proactive. More »
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Yesterday, we shared with you some of the um... controversial changes that are happening in the Star Wars Original Trilogy Blu-ray discs. Like Darth Vader shouting "Noooooooooooo" as he tosses the Emperor. And Obi-Wan's baffling new attack cry. More »
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Everybody knows that George Lucas loves to change his movies, so it shouldn't really surprise anyone that Lucas has yet again changed something else on the Star Wars Blu-Ray saga release. He's scrubbed out Frank Oz's Yoda puppet from The Phantom Menace and replaced it with a CG monster. More »
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Who needs a Magic 8-Ball when you can ask a Sith Lord about your problems? We're exclusively announcing the launch of two new "digital experiences" Fox is rolling out in celebration of the Star Wars Blu-ray release, including a digital catalog where you can vote for the best Star Wars out of the entire six-movie saga and "Ask Vader!" Check it out now. More »
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Everybody who went to the Star Wars Fan Movie Awards last night got a special surprise: a short "sizzle reel" showcasing the deleted scenes from the original trilogy that'll be on this fall's Blu-ray release. And here it is! More »
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Why was A Clockwork Orange such a controversial film when it originally came out? It's not just because of all the sex and violence — or even the combination of the two. More »
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The entire Star Wars saga will be released in blu-ray on September 16th, with hours and hours of extra features, classic documentaries, and even pop culture spoofs packed into the discs. We've got the entire list right here. More »
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Prices for DVDs of the original Tron have tripled on eBay, as movigoers hunt for the out-of-print item to re-watch it before seeing Tron Legacy. But is Disney keeping Tron unavailable on purpose, to help promote Tron Legacy? More »
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People sometimes put down Space: 1999 for looking cheap and nasty — but after you see how much cooler it looks in a restored HD version, you'll want to watch it all over again. More comparisons below. More »
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Wondering where all the off-color humor was in Robert Rodriguez's Predators? Danny Trejo and Topher Grace have your answer — check out this exclusive deleted scene from the Predators DVD. More »
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Good news first. In the fall of next year, Lucasfilm will release a collection of all six Star Wars films on Blu-ray with extras a-go-go. The bad news? The films may not be sold separately, and Greedo shot first. More »
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According to Lucasfilm, the Star Wars saga is slowly but surely making its way to the HD format. Are you really gonna pony up to own these films again? And again...and again? More »
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There are no firm plans for Avatar 2 yet, but James Cameron has been spending time in Brazil, talking to indigenous tribespeople about Pandora. We grilled producer Jon Landau about Avatar 2, plus why the Avatar DVD/Blu-Ray has no extras. More »
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Avatar is doing a nice thing with all the money it made peddling Satan's wares. On Earth Day, Fox will team up with Earth Day Network to plant one million trees. Oh, and they'll pimp the Blu-Ray Avatar release too. More »
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Doctor Who just ended a strange experiment, and now you can view all of the results together. The British serial ran a year of one-off "event" stories featuring the time-traveler on his own. So how does it all hold up? More »
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The Star Trek DVD is out tomorrow, loaded up with goodies like William Shatner's deleted scenes and lots of in-depth interviews. Here's everything we learned about Star Trek from the DVD, plus the latest clips. More »
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Bringing Coraline and her world to life took more than a few puppet heads. The crew on Coraline followed a detailed cataloging system to bring even the smallest puppet facial tick to life. Watch Coraline's DVD extras reavealing the process. More »
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Now that we've seen some of the fancy ways BluRay can enhance Watchmen, what does the next Harry Potter DVD have in store for us? Also, there are possible release dates for the final Potter movies. More »
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OCD detail-oriented director Zack Snyder is going to take you through his Watchmen adaptation, shot for shot. The special features on the BluRay release of Watchmen include Zack powering through just about every nuanced detail in Watchmen. See for yourself. More »
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Here's a sign that San Diego Comic-Con has achieved some kind of critical mass - At least two panels from the con are going to be broadcast to everyone who didn't manage to get tickets, as they happen. More »
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Remember how your mom told you to sew your name into your clothes? The same goes for alien costumes, according to this exclusive clip from Star Trek: The Motion Picture Collection Blu-ray. More »
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You may have read Hamlet in the original Klingon, but you've probably never seen it performed — until now. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5107150&view=rss&microfeed=true Your very favorite anime, Akira, is coming out on Blu-Ray disc in Japan and the U.S. in February of next year. The special goodies on this disc include a special booklet and a video storyboard collection. There, you've been warned — I'll see you outside of the local DVD shoppe. [Anime News Network] More »
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For months, we've been hearing about the Oscar potential of The Dark Knight, whether it's Heath Ledger's stunning turn in the role of the Joker or Christopher Nolan's dazzling direction, but now we discover that Academy members will get the best chance possible to judge the movie on second viewing, thanks to Warners offering to mail each member a Blu-Ray disc that offers a brand new vision of the movie - one engineered by Nolan himself.

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Although The Dark Knight has made everyone forget about the summer's first big superhero movie, that'll only be the case until September 30th. That's beginning to look like the date when Iron Man will be available to own in a variety of formats... possibly including one that you may want to wear. More »
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When Toshiba stopped making HD-DVDs a few months back, many industry insiders wondered just who had benefited from the high definition format wars. While many pointed fingers at Sony, whose Blu-ray friendly PS3 may have tipped the scales in favor of the violet-themed disc, we here at io9 are proud to announce that the true winner of HD-DVD versus Blu-ray was actually... Michael Bay. Admit it. You thought we were going to say "the fans," didn't you? Find out why Bay's over the moons of Cybertron under the jump. More »
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The saddest part of the end of the whole BluRay/HD-DVD format war isn't the ritual suicide of literally tens of Toshiba obsessives as they realize that their side was crushed by the omnivorous Sony Corporation. No, it's the fact that, no matter how cool BluRay may be, it didn't produce anything as jaw-droppingly awesome/pathetic/both as Toshiba's HD-DVD Star Trek Phaser remote control. More »
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Sure, HD DVD has been slaughtered by Blu-ray, but will we really care when our television is an ingestible alpha-wave generator that'll just paint the pictures on the insides of our heads for us? Tex Avery's vision of the Television of Tomorrow in this MGM cartoon from 1953 might not have come true yet, but we're holding out hope that we could get a few of these innovations stuck into our next-gen televisions before the tubes vanish into our noggins. If you could flip open extra screens to see more of the subject, and attach your television directly to the garbage disposal, you wouldn't care what the delivery format was anymore. More »
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Andrew Niccol's film Gattaca seems like it's been swept under the carpet and behind the radiator lately, which is surprising given the current obsession with stem cells, in utero fetal testing, and the human genome. In fact, there's a whole generation out there who haven't even seen this film. Breathe easy, because you'll be able to help them see it when a brand-new edition comes to DVD and Blu-ray on March 11th. Can you believe Danny DeVito produced this thing? The new disc features all new interviews with Ethan Hawke and Jude Law and an expose on DNA testing. More »
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