App exploration doesn’t pay off on Blu-ray players. (Credit: Matthew Moskovciak/CNET) If you’re getting a new Blu-ray player this holiday season, chances are it’s loaded with apps. And a lot of them aren’t worth trying
More ’80s episodes starring the space age family land on DVD-R.
Rare is the actor who doesn’t mind being upstaged, especially by an animal. After all, animals, like children, don’t have to work at it
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Blu-ray players may be around longer than you’d think. (Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET) You may still be trying to figure out what products to buy this year, but CES 2012 is less than a month away and I’m already thinking about what’s likely to be new in home theater. In prior years, the big CES trends in home theater were obvious before we even got to the show (3D, rise of Blu-ray, emergence of …
Here are sweet (and cynical) lessons we learned from a half-dozen classic holiday flicks.
Famed British band Radiohead is set to release live DVD and Blu-ray versions of its much hyped BBC set on Nigel Godrich’s “Live from the Basement” on December 19. Meanwhile, the world gears up for New Year’s celebrations, with Coldplay, Drake, and Justice set to ring in the New Year with live shows.
Beyonce has released a DVD of her probably last concert before giving birth to her first child, and we’ve got five copies to give away.
Genre: AnimationDirector: Jennifer Yu NelsonStars: Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan**1/2Director Jennifer Yuh Nelson’s animated comedy sequel manages to have its fortune cookie and eat it, too, since it delivers both more action and fireworks (literally), while at the same time filling in the tragic back story of Po, the accidental panda warrior voiced by Jack Black.This is a franchise …
Genre: ActionDirector: Rupert WyattStars: James Franco, Andy Serkis, Freido Pinto***The world needs another Planet of the Apes movie like a circus acrobat needs a banana peel. After five original films, two TV spinoffs and Tim Burton’s failed 2001 “reimagining,†the franchise has fleas.