NBC Universal Comes to The UK’s Xbox Live Video Marketplace

Great news for British Xbox Live Video Marketplace enthusiast, Head of Microsoft Game Studios UK Neil Thompson has announced NBC Universal content will be available on the Xbox Live Video Marketplace for United Kingdom viewers. Expect to see titles such as Animal House, Scarface, Cheech and Chong’s Next Movie, and Shaun of the Dead readily [...]

Kaleidescape Blu-ray On Track For 2009

It appears that Kaleidescape is no longer contented with a player that provides “a viewing experience that rivals Blu-ray” as declared in the downloadable datasheet for their 1080p Player.
According to their CEO, Michael Malcolm, they’re all set to release a player that will still look like the 1080p model but will fully support the [...]

VUDU Now Lets Users Purchase HD Movies, Not Just Rent Them

Good news for digital video distribution enthusiasts, VUDU is announcing plans to allow consumers to purchase HD video content; previously users were only able to rent HD titles. Prominent indie studios Magnolia Pictures, FirstLook Studios, and Kino. Vudu expects to have 50 HD titles available by the end of this week; titles will be sold [...]

Monsters Inc. Makes Blu-ray Debut May 19th

Here’s a film that can definitely capitalize on the high-definition capabilities of Blu-ray. According to HighDefDigest.com, the 2001 blockbuster hit “Monster’s, Inc” is being set up to make its high-def debut on May 19th.
In addition to the extras already included in the older special edition DVD, the Blu-ray version is expected to have a “Filmmakers’ [...]

Blu-ray Giveaway: Zombie Strippers

This Blu-ray giveaway is for “Zombie Strippers”
The giveaway is open to U.S. residents only. (Mehar will be helping out with Canadian only giveaways).
You can only win once every 3 months. we decided to lower this since we do giveaways so often.
The Winner will be announced Monday March 2nd.

Winner will be selected by a Random.org number sequence.
How [...]

Man Can’t Get DTV Converter Box to Work, Goes Postal!

Walter Hoover, a 70 year old [drunk] Missouri man who was unable to get his DTV converter box to work correctly decided, instead of calling in the geek squad he would take a gun and repeatedly shoot his TV set. After local authorities were called Mr. Hoover went into a brief standoff before being taken [...]

Blu-ray New Releases for 2-24-2009

The following are the Blu-ray new releases for Tuesday, February 24th, 2009.
Akira
Honneamise/Bandai
Retail: $49.98
Amazon: $29.99
Back Again No Matter What: Live 2008 (Import)
Polydor UK
Retail: $36.98
Amazon: $25.99
Baroque Motion, Vol. 1
Microcinema
Retail: $34.95
Amazon: $21.99
Death & Life of Bobby Z (Import)
101 Distribution
Retail: $39.49
Amazon: $29.99
Freedomland (Import)
101 Distribution
Retail: $28.49
Amazon: $21.49
French Connection 2
20th Century Fox
Retail: $34.98
Amazon: $22.99
Friday the 13th Part 2 (Import)
101 Distribution
Retail: $39.49
Amazon: [...]

McDonald’s Sells it’s Share of Redbox to Coinstar

Many may recall seeing various Redbox units at various grocery stores in North America, did you know they were part owned by McDonald’s? It seems McDonald’s wants out of the movie rental business, to do such a thing they have sold their majority shares of Redbox to a company called Coinstar.
Under this deal McDonald’s still [...]

Pineapple Express Winner Announced

The winner of the Pineapple Express Blu-ray Giveaway is: Tim Gerig
If you are the winner you will be contacted via email withing 24hrs.

If you didn’t win this time, a new giveaway starts on Tuesday!
Winner was selected by a double random number seq. via Random.org

Vudu iPhone Remote Hits The App Store

A new app has been released that turns you iPhone/iPod Touch into a remote for your Vudu movie box. The app is called “iVudu iRemote” has a price of $2.99. The iVudu app Communicates using wifi and the VUDU Net Remote Protocol.
The only problem with this app is the fact that this only works with [...]