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DVD UPDATE JUNE 2008

These are the dvds I bought during the month of June.

Heroes: Complete Season 1: 7hdd £12.99 HMV

Heroes: Complete Season 1: 7hdd

Was £68.99 Your saving £56.00

HD DVD £12.99 free delivery

Release date: 10-12-2007
Availability: in stock
Catalogue Number: 8253050

LINK TO THE ITEM HERE

Bargaintastic!

DVD UPDATE

Some new dvds and a few HD dvds I forgot to add last time.

PICS OF MY NEW LAPTOP

If you read my last post and wondered what the laptop looked like well here's a few pics I snapped as I opened it. I'll get more detailed pics up on my website at a later date as well as a full in depth review.

NEW LAPTOP AND WINDOWS VISTA

Ok! So we all know HD-DVD is dead and we all know that you can pick up a HD-DVD player super cheap, with the 360 version selling for abour £20-£40. What you might not know, is that Toshiba are also selling those fancy HD-DVD laptops cheap, well stores that sell them are anyway...

I know because I got a superb 17" HD-DVD Rom laptop that would not be worth my time had I not already had some HD-DVD movies and TV shows to watch on it, and with all those firesales of HD discs I've ordered more movies as they are a few £ each so now I have a nice backup HD drive for my discs. (got the laptop March 28)

I got the HD-DVD version of Feast yesterday so that was nice timing to go along with my new laptop

Here's the specs, athough the price was much much lower:P

http://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com/cgi-bin/ToshibaCSG/jsp/productPage.do?service=UK&PRODUCT_ID=145667&toshibaShop=true

So anyway, I'm loving this laptop, it's amazing infact. Amazing screen, amazing playback quality of the HD drive, HDMI out, optical out, this baby has it all, well maybe not it ALL, but for the few hundred squids I got it for it has more than its fair share..

One thing that surpised me though was Vista (I have Premium ed). I've held off getting a new desktop PC because of vista. My desktop PC still works like a dream, but since I do a lot of photo editing and video work I was in need of something with just a little more power, but all the bad Vista reviews put me off. Well I don't know why I was so worried because I LOVE VISTA, sure it's taken me a few days to get used to some things but the pros more than make up for any cons.

I'll be keeping XP on both my desktop PC and my old laptop but if you have a PC with enough power then Vista sure is very nice.

So be sure to lookout for those super cheap HD-DVD laptops...Oh yea baby!!:D

The UK HD-DVD Firesales Begin.

First of all, Happy St. Patricks Day (Thanks for the Heads up Emma :D)-

Anybody who has a HD-DVD player will know that USA sites that sell HD-DVDs as well as Oz sites have been selling HD-DVD stuff at next to nothing prices. Well, while maybe not as low priced (for the moment) the UK has at last started to sell HD-DVDs from around £6.

Play has a 3 for £20 offer on, Amazon UK are selling discs like 'The Thing' for £6.97, Van Helsing for £5.97 and many many more so it's worth having a look if you have a player and are looking to add a few more HD discs before they are gone for good (bar ebay off course).

These movies will be on Blu-Ray before you know it, but they will not be at these prices for a very long time. I'm sure as more time passes the UK HD discs will drop to about £3-5 each and maybe less just to clear stock.

I've ordered a few from the US already like 'Feast' for £5.99 from Movietyme simply because you can't get the movies I ordered here in the UK, even on DVD. I've set my HD-DVD spending limit for UK discs at £4 a disc so anything more and it's no sale.

HD-DVD SINGS MY WAY

And now, the end is near; And so I face the final curtain...

So it was always the under-dog but HD-DVD has gave up the fight at long last. To tell the truth I'm surpirsed it lasted as long as it did, with very little studio backing it still managed to give us some great titles and In my opinion it was the best of the 2 formats (the other off course being Blu-Ray)

I was never a fan of Blu-Ray right from the off, I hate the name for a start, sure the discs were big and beefy but firmware problems, rubbish java and old school codecs made Blu-ray seem less than great.

HD-DVD on the other hand had a great name, it was High Def but it was also DVD, simple for even my gran to understand. The video codec was better and the extras were far better with pic in pic from the get-go and most important EVERY disc was region freee. Boo ya!

HD-DVD also cost far less to buy a player, I got my HD-DVD player for the xbox 360 for just over £110 with a free copy of King Kong, stunning picture quality and still one of the best HD discs I've seen on either format.

I'm sad to see HD-DVD lose because now Sony will up the price of both the players and the discs as competition will be non existent (until we have digital downloads that are quick and easy to get that is). There's also the fact that Blu-Ray just is not 100% ready yet, so unless you have a PS3 you might end up with discs that don't work when you get them home, also pretty much no region free. sure there's more than a few discs out there that ARE region free but not all like HD-DVD and as time goes by there will be less and less of those I bet.

I have very few HD-DVDs (over a year I've been buying HD), I did not want to invest in many because let's be honest, It never had a chance in hell of winning, but hey? It put up a pretty good fight and It gave me enough of a taste of stunning HD movies to keep me going for the next few years until everything settles down.

HD-DVD, you ill be missed..RIP

HD-DVD discs I have are -

Heroes season 1

Troy

Transformers (wow, amazing pic quality)

Mission impossible trilogy (this cost me £1..yep you read that correct, £1 :D)

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Serenity (one of my fave movies and looks stunning in HD)

King Kong.

A long way off my 1200+ dvds and I'll stick with DVD for a long time to come.

Heroes Season 1

Universal Studios Home Video have announced the Region 1 DVD release of Heroes: Season 1 on 28th August 2007 priced at $59.98 SRP. From creator/writer Tim Kring (NBC's "Crossing Jordan") comes "Heroes," an epic drama that chronicles the lives of ordinary people who discover they possess extraordinary abilities.

The breakout TV hit of the 2006-2007 season, Heroes: Season 1 is presented across 7 discs in 1.78:1 Anamorphic Widescreen with English DD5.1 Surround audio and optional English SDH, French and Spanish subtitles.

Extras are TBC, but expect loads of em.

Also on HD-DVD

Universal Studios Home Video have announced the US HD DVD release of Heroes: Season 1 on 28th August 2007 priced at $99.98 SRP. From creator/writer Tim Kring (NBC's "Crossing Jordan") comes "Heroes," an epic drama that chronicles the lives of ordinary people who discover they possess extraordinary abilities.

The breakout TV hit of the 2006-2007 season, Heroes: Season 1 comes to HD DVD day and date with the DVD release and is presented across 7 discs (7xHD30) in 1080P 1.78:1 Widescreen with English Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 Surround audio and optional English SDH and French subtitles. Extras are TBC

Edit: A list of some of the extras

The seven-disc package will include all 23 episodes - presented in 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen, along with English Dolby Digital 5.1 tracks. Extras will include audio commentaries, the original un-aired pilot episode with optional commentary, deleted scenes, a making of featurette, a special effects featurette, and a stunts featurette. A HD DVD release will also be available for $99.98. This will include all of the above, along with additional material (PIP video commentaries, a Genetic Abilities test, and more).

I've yet to see Heroes as I've been waiting on the DVD. I can't wait for this

This is Spartaaaaaa!!!!!

Warner Home Video have announced the Region 1 DVD release of 300 on 31st July 2007. The epic graphic novel by Frank Miller (Sin City) assaults the screen with the blood, thunder and awe of its ferocious visual style faithfully recreated in an intense blend of live-action and CGI animation. Retelling the ancient Battle of Thermopylae, it depicts the titanic clash in which King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) and 300 Spartans fought to the death against Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro) and his massive Persian army. Available in separate Widescreen and Full Screen single-disc ($28.98 SRP) and Widescreen two-disc ($34.99 SRP) editions features are detailed below…

Disc 1: Main Feature
English, French and Spanish DD5.1 Surround
English, French and Spanish subtitles
Audio Commentary with director Zack Snyder, writer Kurt Johnstad and director of photography Larry Fong

Disc 2: Extra Features (Special Edition only)
Deleted Scenes with Introduction by Zack Snyder
300 Spartans - Fact or Fiction? (24:31mins) - Historians, authors and filmmakers reveal how much of the film was based on fact.
Who Were The Spartans: The Warriors of 300 (4:24mins) - Touches on the customs and ways of life of the Spartan that weren’t explicitly shown in 300 but were used by the actors and filmmakers to help build their characters.
Frank Miller Tapes (13:00mins) - We'll show how the outspoken Miller continued to push his limits to realize his epic graphic novel in the world of film
Webisodes: Behind the scenes peeks on the set of 300 (20:00mins)
Photo gallery (3:39mins) - Rapid fire stills from the first day of production to the last.

There's also a single disc release and a HD-DVD version as well...Details of the HD versions below....

Warner Home Video have announced the US Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD release of 300 on 31st July 2007. The epic graphic novel by Frank Miller (Sin City) assaults the screen with the blood, thunder and awe of its ferocious visual style faithfully recreated in an intense blend of live-action and CGI animation.

Retelling the ancient Battle of Thermopylae, it depicts the titanic clash in which King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) and 300 Spartans fought to the death against Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro) and his massive Persian army. Experience history at swordpoint. And moviemaking with a cutting edge.

Released on HD DVD Combo (HD30/DVD9, $39.99 SRP) and Blu-ray Disc (BD50, $34.99 SRP) the film is presented in 1080P Widescreen with English, French and Spanish 5.1 Surround (Dolby Digital on Blu-ray Disc, Dolby Digital Plus on HD DVD), English Dolby True HD 5.1 Surround and optional English, French and Spanish subtitles.

This is one HD-DVD I need :)