Dennis Muren is one of the founding team members of Industrial Light and Magic, Lucasfilm’s effects team since the days of A New Hope. With eight Academy Awards to his name, Giz AU had the chance to sit down with Muren at Lucasfilm in San Francisco to talk about the special content available on the Blu-ray releases, as well as what it was like to invent an entire special effects industry. More »
It’s going to take a long time before all your favourite TV shows are converted to Blu-ray, especially if they all undergo as much improvement as Star Trek: The Next Generation has. More »
Technically not available until tomorrow, it’s still worth knowing about early – Big W is selling the BDP-S185 Sony Blu-ray player bundled with the three good Star Wars films on Blu-ray for just $98. That’s a hard bundle to pass up, even with Lucas’ incessant meddling with the Blu-ray versions… [BigW via OzBargain]
Logitech may have balked on their relationship with the Google TV platform, but Sony’s new Google TV streamer is hard evidence that the company is fully committed to the Android-based IPTV ecosystem. More »
The cloud may be a hot topic in storage but it’s not very convenient when you’ve got more than a couple of gigabytes of data to back up. Pioneer’s new external Blu-Ray burner can handle up to 128GB with its 1.27cm-tall frame — the world’s thinnest. More »
I’m sure there are 3.5 people out there who will put Sony’s portable Blu-ray player to great use. It has a 9-inch screen, 4.5 hours of battery life and 1080p output via HDMI. But for the rest of us, The Sony SX910 is an extremely niche-y, borderline unnecessary piece of tech. More »
Three-time Oscar-nominated director of many awesomesauce movies Ridley Scott penned a HuffPo article yesterday, detailing why streaming movies are still vastly inferior to physical media such as Blu-ray. Oh, yeah, Mr Scott? You’re… you’re… absolutely right. Sigh. More »
You know what everybody loves for Christmas? Movies. TV shows. DVDs and Blu-rays. So it might be a good idea to head over to JB Hi-Fi to take advantage of the 20 per cent off Blu-ray and DVD sale happening until next Wednesday. [JB Hi-Fi]
Given George Lucas’ penchant for adding crap to the original Star Wars films, you may have been holding off on buying the complete collection on Blu-ray until they became a bit more affordable. Thankfully, Amazon has delivered, with the complete box set of all three films, plus the three adventures in fantasy horror (how else do you explain Jar Jar Binks?), costing less than $70 delivered, which is better than any local sale. More »
Chances are high by now that if you’re keen, you’ve already snapped up Star Wars on Blu-Ray. But Christmas is just around the corner, and you might know somebody who’d love it as a Christmas present. Big W’s doing a weekend promotion on the complete box set for $78; we’ve seen it at this kind of price before, but not for a while (thanks to Mark for pointing this one out!) [Big W]
