Articles by Bill Binder

The Astronaut Farmer…. launches onto DVD

June 8, 2007 // 0 Comments

Horrible puns aside, Warner Home Entertainment will premiere the family film The Astronaut Farmer to DVD this fall. Charles Farmer is a former rising star in the field of aerospace engineering who is forced to retire early and tend to a family situation. [...]

Blades of Glory discs of joy

June 6, 2007 // 0 Comments

Blades of Glory, the ice skating farce, is coming to a slew of disc releases in August from Dreamworks. Widescreen and fullscreen DVDs, a Blu-Ray and an HD-DVD version will all hit in August. The discs will all contain six featurettes; Return to Glory: [...]

Final Fantasy is released on Blu-Ray

June 4, 2007 // 0 Comments

One of the first computer animated features to break out of children’s fare, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within will get a chance to showcase its animation again with a Blu-Ray release from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The film will get a 1080p [...]

Short bad news on Star Wars

May 31, 2007 // 0 Comments

Bad News: According to Lucasart’s John Sing, “Lucasfilm Ltd. has no plans to release any of the Star Wars movies on Blu-ray or HD DVD.”. Good News: Lucasfilm has also in the past asserted that Star Wars would never be on DVD, none of the trilogy [...]

Disney gets serious about television; cutesy with names

May 31, 2007 // 0 Comments

Buena Vista is preparing a new assault in television DVD releases, hoping to increase the value of television sets and pull consumers away from dowloadable episodes by including more bonus material. Part of this trend, alas, is to add the cutesy [...]

Extras goes to season two

May 30, 2007 // 0 Comments

It’s sad that the BBC/HBO series Extras can’t be brought up without a call to Ricky Gervais’ work on The Office. D’oh, I just did it. But Extras can stand on its own, and its second and final season will hit DVD soon from HBO Home Video. Andy [...]

High def on the road

May 30, 2007 // 0 Comments

DVD players are increasingly common in cars, but Toshiba has announced an HD-DVD player to be integrated into autos in 2008. The player will obviously come with a high definition screen and will replace the remote control with a touch screen interface. [...]

Sharp ends the high def wars?

May 29, 2007 // 0 Comments

Sharp has made quite an amazing announcement, and one that has slipped almost completely under the radar. Sharp has just announced the release of a new optical disc player that will allegedly be the smallest player ever produced. In and of itself, this is [...]

Hot Fuzz comes to your little town

May 29, 2007 // 0 Comments

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost present their sophomore outing on DVD and HD-DVD from Universal later this year with Hot Fuzz coming from Universal. The discs will cotnain the film along with deleted scenes and outtakes, the featurettes Hot Funk, The Fuzzball [...]

They’re still 20 Million Miles to Earth

May 29, 2007 // 0 Comments

The 50th Anniversary Edition of Twenty Million Miles To Earth is coming as a two disc DVD from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Upon its return from a mission to Venus, an American spaceship crash-lands in the sea near Sicily. The rescue party discovers [...]
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