Welcome to this week’s edition of the New Release Tuesday Blog! There are a good number of DVD and HD releases this week, but it is a rather poor week for TV-on-DVD releases. On SD DVD today, we get some big releases such as Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Man’s Chest , Miami Vice (Unrated), a the Collector’s Edition of Rocky. In the world of TV-on-DVD, the only big title this week is 24 – Season Five. Lastly, on HD DVD we get Miami Vice (Unrated) in … combo disc, and on Blu-ray, we get Rocky, Flight of the Pheonix, and Rising Sun. Here are the other titles that made our list…

Top SD DVD releases

• Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Man’s Chest (Two-Disc Collector’s Edition)
• Miami Vice (Unrated Director’s Cut)
• High School Musical (Two-Disc Remix Edition)
• Beerfest (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
• Rocky (Collector’s Edition)
• The Conformist (Extended Edition)
• Pulse (Unrated)
• 1900 (Special Collector’s Edition)
• The Architect
• How to Eat Fried Worms (New Line Platinum Series)
• Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One (Criterion Collection)
• The Beale’s of Grey Gardens (Criterion Collection)

Top TV on DVD releases

• 24 - Season Five
• Saturday Night Live - The Complete First Season
• Survivor Vanuatu - The Complete Season
• Animaniacs, Vol. 2
• Pinky and the Brain, Vol. 2
• The Dukes of Hazzard - The Complete Seventh Season

Top HD-DVD/Blu-Ray releases

• Miami Vice (Unrated / Combo) [HD DVD]
• A Christmas Story [HD DVD]
• National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation [HD DVD]
• The Architect [HD-DVD]
• Rocky [Blu-ray]
• Flight of the Phoenix [Blu-ray]
• A Christmas Story [Blu-ray]
• National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation [Blu-ray]
• Rising Sun [Blu-ray]
• The Architect [Blu-ray]

That’s it for this week… check back again next Tuesday to see what makes our list. As always, feel free to post your comments on this “New Release Tuesday” blog… let me know what you think.