Articles by Bill Binder

Jingle All The Way is coming back

July 13, 2007 // 0 Comments

One of Twentieth Century Fox’s first entries into DVD was the holiday film Jongle All the Way. The Christmas Comedy is getting revisted as part of the Family Fun banner this fall. It’s Christmas Eve, and Howard Langston is determined to get his son [...]

Europe not a fan of the Blu-ray

July 12, 2007 // 0 Comments

The occasional news postings here concerning the format competition have recently started showing Blu-ray taking a lead in the states. But Europe is quite another matter. According to new sales figures. HD-DVD players across the pond are outselling [...]

Looney Tunes adds 60 more shorts.

July 11, 2007 // 0 Comments

Warner Brothers Home Entertainment is planning on releasing another volume of their top tier Looney Tunes Golden Collection. Volume 5 will add 60 more shorts, bringing the total on the sets to 296. That leaves about 150 still out there to be released in [...]

99 down The Jazz Singer makes it to DVD

July 10, 2007 // 0 Comments

The Jazz Singer has been one of those mysterious holdouts on DVD for far too long. Noticeably it’s one of two films from the original AFI Top 100 films list to never make it to DVD (the other being the still absent African Queen). But also, it is the [...]

Better late than never. Young Indiana Jones

July 10, 2007 // 0 Comments

In 1993, The Star Wars Definitive Collection truly was an amazing laserdisc collection complete with a book interviewing George Lucas. In the book Lucas spent an entire page praising a soon to come media called DVD. Lucas claimed he couldn’t wait to get [...]

Exciting Trek News Part I

July 10, 2007 // 0 Comments

In addition to the complete seasons for various Star Trek series, Paramount has released a series of “Fan Collective” sets. Grouping together favorite episodes in various categories of Trek Lore. These sets are great for the smaller purchaser, but [...]

Exciting Trek News Part II

July 10, 2007 // 0 Comments

It’s long been known that the remastered episodes of the original Star Trek will be making their way to HD-DVD this winter, hopefully with some new supplements. There will be much disclosed in the coming weeks on this and many things after Comic Con. [...]

DVD sales are… down

July 9, 2007 // 0 Comments

The final numbers are in for the first half of 2007, and it looks like total DVD sales are down just under 3% from the same time last year. Now 3% isn’t too dastardly a decline. But it is significant since this marks the first time in a decade that [...]

The Last Starfighter hits HD-DVD

July 9, 2007 // 0 Comments

“Greetings, Starfighter. You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan armada. ” When Alex Rogan beat the arcade machine in his park, he never dreamed he’d be recruited for service in the Star League, [...]

Troy is getting a director’s cut, four times over

July 9, 2007 // 0 Comments

Wolfgang Petersen has revisited his War epic Troy with a new director’s cut which will be available in several new disc releases to suit your every need. Seperate DVD, HD-DVD and Blu-ray versions will be available with the extended cut of the film with [...]
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