Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment and Lucasfilm Ltd. has announced that the recently released Star Wars: The Complete Saga is the best selling Blu-ray Disc catalog of all time, with worldwide sales of 1 million units, including around 515,000 copies sold in North America a week after it was released. The nine-disc collector’s set generated $38 million from sales in North America, and more than $84 million collected worldwide. The collection is priced at £60 ($79.99). The sales figure made the set the top pre-order catalog...
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To celebrate the release of Star Wars: The Complete Saga on Blu-ray, the BT Tower in London was transformed into the biggest lightsaber in the world for one night. Lighting specialists from a company called Imagination created the effect, that turned the London landmark, which stands at 189 meters tall, into a giant laser sword. Even though fans of the original Star Wars series are disappointed with the changes George Lucas made to the original trilogy, we can all agree that this light show is pretty cool. In the launch party at the top...
A few years ago, GE announced that they were working on a storage device which uses micro-holographic technology, that will offer a whopping 500 gigabytes of storage on a Blu-ray-sized disc. Now, the company said that their research group came up with an optical disc writer that is capable of recording data at speeds equivalent to a Blu-ray writer. Peter Lorraine, manager of the Optical Research Unit at GE, said, “The disc is a polycarbonate material with millions of the micro-holograms stamped onto the disc. When the light source...
May the 4th, dubbed Star Wars day has provided a few techie based news snippets but the most talked about has undoubtedly been the confirmation of the original trilogy coming out on blu ray in September. Fans were expecting something else but had to make do with an announcement based on a bumper set of Blu Rays. The official September 12th release date will hail a nine disk box set which will comprise of the three films that made up the Star Wars Saga and a whole heap of bonus material. The extra behind the scenes footage equates to an...
Fans of Star Wars have good reason to be excited today as the entire saga will be available on Blu-Ray at the end of summer. News actually broke that the saga would be available in Blu Ray at CES earlier this month; Darth Vader (we are not sure if he was the actual one) revealed that it would happen in 2011. A clear date in September is now available with Pre-orders already expected to draw huge sales. Amazon is offering a complete set of all six films complete with 30 hours of bonus material for £89.99, both the original trilogy and...
After a fairly intense period of posting what felt like nothing but 3D news, it now feels like quite a break since our last 3D related post but Sharp has leapt in bravely to offer us some help in that respect. OK, so it doesn’t have the snappiest title in the world but the BD-HP90S is a 3D capable Blu Ray player which almost instantly plunges into the world of greatness and coolness. In order to give it even more cool credibility it’s an ultra sleek design that can be led down, stood up, or hung upside down on the living room...
Manufacturers were kind of slow to jump on the whole Blu Ray player bandwagon but it seems they don’t want to be left out in the cold again with 3D TV as pretty much everything at the moment is being created in 3D. Companies are clearly catching on to the general excitement and stir that is being created by the emerging technology. What’s more, companies like Panasonic, Sony, and now LG are even managing to combine the two technologies in some inspiring pieces of home entertainment kit. The LG BX580 does exactly that because...
Such is the pace of change in the world of Blu-ray Players that yesterday’s top of the range models and now being bettered by new, mid price options. People who have held off until now may consider this a good time to see what all the fuss is about. Those who have been enjoying the stunning Blu-ray performance for some time are now in the strange position of deciding whether to upgrade to a cheaper machine. It’s a strange world we live in. Design Slimmer than a cheese and pickle sandwich and sleeker than a dolphin that has just been...
If your Blu Ray collection is in need of expansion, check out the films that are arrived in May 2010. The Road A bleak, pseudo-disaster movie with excellent central performances from Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron. Based on the novel by Cormack McCarthy, the chap who also wrote No Country for Old Men, it is not the most optimistic of films, but it does have powerful messages, beautiful landscapes and a tiny glint of hope at the end of the tunnel. ...
James Cameron has confirmed that his hugely profitable 3D flick Avatar will be coming to home cinema users with all three dimensions intact, but you will have to wait until November this year until it finally arrives. Some had hoped that Avatar would be one of the first movies to arrive on Blu-Ray when the 3D revolution kicks off in the summer of this year, but the film’s landmark technical achievements will not be completely available to consumers until the winter. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Mr Cameron said that...