DVD/Blu-ray Breakdown: October 11th, 2011
‘Tree of Life’ and ‘Green Lantern’ headline a week of all new releases on DVD and Blu-ray. Find out what they have to offer on home video this week.
October 11, 2011
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‘Tree of Life’ and ‘Green Lantern’ headline a week of all new releases on DVD and Blu-ray. Find out what they have to offer on home video this week.
Warner Bros. will launch UltraViolet digital movie technology into the market tomorrow with the launch of Horrible Bosses, marking the advent of device-independent content ownership directly from the studios.
Legendary director Ken Burns turns his lens on “Prohibition†for his latest documentary, a three-part, 5 1/2-hour film that premiered on PBS last week. The film is about the oft-misunderstood 13-year period — from 1920 through 1933 — where the manufacture and sale of liquor…
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Hollywood is making a major bet this coming holiday season that consumers will buy movies, instead of renting, and view them on the go.
Netflix generates more head-scratching plot twists than a cheap B-movie. On Monday, the company said it would reverse a previously announced decision to put its DVD-by-mail and Internet streaming services on separate websites, a plan that was widely derided by Netflix subscribers.
Netflix said Monday it will keep its DVD-by-mail and Internet streaming services on one website for US subscribers, abandoning plans announced last month to completely separate the services.
Qwikster, we never knew ya: Netflix has killed its plans to turn its DVD service into a separate business. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings the news via a blog post this morning, reversing a decision he announced via a blog post three weeks ago.
It took Coca-Cola 77 days of New Coke to bring back Coke Classic. It took Netflix co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings less than three weeks to shelf the idea of splitting Netflix into two brands—Qwikster to sell DVDs, Netflix for streaming; 23 days in all to admit publicly that the right strategy can turn out very wrong and to cancel the move before it kicked in.
Next month Lady Gaga will release Blu-Ray & DVD versions of the Emmy Award winning HBO special Lady Gaga Presents The Monster Ball Tour at Madison Square Garden