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All Avatar Blu-Ray Owners Get Extended Edition Material Over BD-Live

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9:30AM November 4, 2010 | Nick Broughall

Finally, I think we’ve found a use for BD-Live that won’t just fade away like a stupid quiz or a georestricted, one-time-only commentary from the film’s director. 20th Century Fox have announced that anyone who owns the vanilla version of Avatar on Blu-ray will get access to some of the exclusive material being released with the extended edition of the film hitting stores on November 24. For free. More »


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Blu-ray MovieIQ Sync Lets You Play Along With Michael Jackson’s This Is It

11:00AM January 11, 2010 | Jack Loftus

This bit of Blu-Ray news was left suspiciously out of Sony’s CES keynotes and big reveals, which doesn’t bode well… but anyway. Now it’s out: The BD Live feature MovieIQ Sync debuted with Michael Jackson’s This Is It. Woo? More »


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Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince Liveblog Tomorrow

10:02AM December 12, 2009 | Jason Chen

Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) and Director David Yates will be answering your Half-Blood Prince questions live on BD-Live tomorrow at 3pm ET (7am AEDT), and we’ll be liveblogging it. More »


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Harry Potter’s BD-Live Community Screening 1st For Australia

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1:30PM December 10, 2009 | Nick Broughall

So there have been quite a few of these Blu-ray community screenings over the past year or so, but they’ve all been restricted to viewers in the US. The latest Harry Potter flick however, the Half Blood Prince, is having a community screening that’s global. That means you can actually take part, and chat with both Daniel Radcliffe and director David Yates while you watch the movie (or something like that anyway). More »


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Pioneer’s Entry Level Blu-ray Still Costs $599

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11:16AM July 24, 2009 | Nick Broughall

What’s the sweet spot for an entry level Blu-ray player? $150? $200? $599? We’re going to say that it’s definitely not the latter… More »


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No Zack Snyder Live Watchmen Screening For Australia

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12:51PM July 17, 2009 | Nick Broughall

Truth be told, we didn’t expect that the BD-Live screening of Watchmen hosted by director Zack Snyder would ever make it here to Australia. But we’ve had confirmation from Paramount that we definitely won’t get to sit back and chat with Snyder during the community screening US owners of the Blu-ray will experience. More »


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Zack Snyder To Host Watchmen Screening Over BD Live

2:20AM June 26, 2009 | Mark Wilson

Warner Bros is super, super smart about marketing their Blu-ray discs. First they had Christopher Nolan host a community screening for The Dark Knight. Now director Zack Snyder will do the same for Watchmen. More »


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MovieIQ For BD-Live Displays Online Movie Info In Real Time, Encourages Insufferable Film Geekery

7:10PM June 19, 2009 | John Herrman

From September, all new Sony Pictures Blu-ray discs will support MovieIQ, a service which grabs IMDB-esque data from the Internet to show during playback. How BD-Live hadn’t already been used to do something like this, I have no idea. More »


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Sony 400-Disc Blu-ray Changer Is Perfect For Compulsive Optical Media Hoarders

12:00AM May 22, 2009 | John Herrman

Sony is said to be releasing their previously-spied 400-disc ES Series Blu-ray “Ultra Player” soon, meaning that even the most well-heeled home theatre enthusiasts will have a big enough changer for their expansive movie collections.

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LG Launches Blu-ray Home Theatre Package For $1,599

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10:30AM March 31, 2009 | Nick Broughall

I’m actually really drawn to the design of LG’s new Blu-ray Home Theatre in a Box solution. Maybe I’m just a sucker for stylish curves, but I think I’d consider buying this if I didn’t already own a Blu-ray player and a kick-ass receiver… More »