Is anyone else as stoked as I am to hear Back to the Future is finally coming blu-ray!? As others recently reported, Universal Studios is finally giving us this classic trilogy in full HD goodness. What is even better though, is that they are apparently doing quite a bit to actually make the release worth [...]
Hollywood has plagued us with two major trends over the past decade: increasing prices inversely proportional to the amount or quality of offering and a complete lack of imagination demonstrated by a seemingly never-ending release cycle of (usually sub-par) remakes. Now I know a lot of people out there (mostly in the “Hollywood biz”) are [...]
Posted January 25, 2010 by vidkun under Movies
The end of 2009 has come, ushering in the need to make a list for everything. Whether it be your favorite vacations of the year, your most hated gadgets released this year, or your top 5 breakfasts of the year; everyone enjoys looking back in reflection and relegating just about every aspect of their life [...]
Tags: blu-ray, dvd, movie
Posted January 8, 2010 by vidkun under Movies
For the Linux fans out there, today is a great day! Up until now, blu-ray playback support in Linux has been very complicated and quite an aggravating experience. First you would have to hope you had the right BD-ROM drive and that there was a hacked firmware for you to flash it with. Then you [...]
Tags: blu-ray, Linux, makemkv, media player, media server, os x, Software, streaming
Posted January 4, 2010 by vidkun under Guides, Movies, Software
A few years back when blu-ray was just starting to come about, Richard Weber wrote in an article entitled “The Age of Blu-Ray” detailing some of the main benefits of blu-ray technology: “Do you remember how awesome it was when you upgraded from you old VHS tapes to DVDs? The picture was way clearer and [...]
Tags: 1080i, 1080p, blu-ray, hd, high definition, home theater, media, movie, netflix
Posted December 13, 2009 by vidkun under General, Hardware, Movies, Software
Apparently R2-D2 is conquering the world by slowly invading it on movie at a time. The squeaky little droid from the ever popular Star Wars series was first spotted making an appearance in the new Transformers 2 movie and has now made a confirmed cameo in the latest Star Trek film. How or why he [...]
Posted December 2, 2009 by vidkun under Movies
Here are the blu-ray releases for December 1, 2009. I don’t know about you, but I have been waiting very impatiently for one of these and am so relieved to see it finally out. Snatch has been missing from the blu-ray world for far too long! It has also jumped straight to the top on [...]